The episode begins with the revelation that Adam Levine’s lover character is in fact alive. After appearing dead, Levine attacks Bloodyface just before he harms his fiancé. The couple stabs the monstrous figure and searches for a way out, only to be shot and killed by two other young male characters in Bloodyface masks. One of the males is distraught over the shooting, the other expresses manic delight at killing the lovers and before the audience learns any more about the motives of these two, a third figure appears stalking the two men, also wearing a Bloodyface mask....

5.10 She Gets Revenge Of all the characters who inhabit the hotel, the one most in tune with the audience is Liz. Like her, we’re not main players in the Hotel drama, just enablers like herself. When she has her love affair with Tristan, it works because we all like the character (even if it comes out of nowhere). All along, she’s been the sassy window into the world of the Hotel Cortez....

2.2 Tricks And Treats One of the great appeals of American Horror Story during the first season was its sheer willingness to do something absolutely insane at least once per episode, if not more often. While American Horror Story: Asylum seems to be intent on building a reasonable world, rather than simply a house full of ghosts, it also seems to be unwilling to break from its tradition of gleeful insanity with this week’s impressive collection of bits and pieces mashed into a television show....

4.13 Curtain Call The one thing you can say about this season of American Horror Story as a whole is that it doesn’t lack teeth. There have been a lot of crazy things that happened this season with plenty of graphic violence, torture, serial killers, weird sex stuff… you know, the standard American Horror Story staples, just turned up to 11 with the addition of killer clowns, human oddities, and cover songs....

With every episode of Roanoke, I’m again struck by the way it does such a great job of aping the source material which inspires the framing device for the horror show. For instance, take the show’s opening. We get a little blink of the television rating warning for American Horror Story, and then we’re thrown directly into the world of My Roanoke Nightmare. Specifically, the thing that caught my attention this week is the cold opening....

So, this episode focuses on three central characters the series will continue to follow. First up are a set of misbehaving twins, Daniel and Nathan Sims, who live with their mother and her new boyfriend, Steve. These two characters were featured in Lilley’s first series, We Can Be Heroes, and they hold most of the laughs for the first part of the episode. They live on a farm their dad tried to make a success before he died....

When Arrested Development debuted on Fox in 2003 there was nothing like it on television. Even now, some 15 years later there still isn’t. Arrested Development took things we had seen in sitcoms before, unlikeable characters in an unlikeable family, fast-paced pun humor, a weird soundtrack, and some light mockumentary cutaways, and turned it into a singular show that somehow felt improvised and carefully planned at the same time. It’s hard to find other shows today that look like those first three seasons of Arrested Development because Arrested Development wasn’t so much a show as it was a microchip that contained all the secrets of comedy coded together....

Arrow Season 4, Episode 20 Remember when Arrowhad some system of internal narrative logic? Sure, it was a ridiculous internal logic predicated on the belief that Oliver’s hood would stay up without the use of either bobby pins or some kind of adhesive, but the show committed and stayed consistent in its ridiculousness. First, there was The Flash, and Arrow‘s internal logic stretched a little thinner as metahumans broke the rules of reality as both we and the people of Starling City knew it....

Kudos to the writers for avoiding heavy exposition as the viewer is thrown right into the middle of preparations for the 51st anniversary of the ship’s launch. I had high hopes for the story right from the start as details were skillfully doled out about the characters in the show without being heavy-handed about it. Stewardesses were scrutinized, teenage crushes were established, and forbidden love affairs were subtly suggested; and all the while the setting and environment were painted in the background with quirky details like old bottles of wine and CRT monitor screens....

It was perhaps inevitable after two storming weeks of Ashes To Ashes that, sooner or later, a lull was on the way. As it turned out, the third episode of the show’s final series didn’t match up to the opening instalments, although it still had plenty in the tank to keep the momentum going. Last week, we saw Shaz stepping into the limelight as her character was subtlety developed. And the highlights of this week were all about Ray Carling, superbly played here by Dean Andrews....

Ballmastrz: 9009 Episode 4 Much like Mario in the original Super Mario Bros., we’re all just trying to get to our princess at the end of our respective castles. Life is all about the journey and understanding that your princess won’t be at the end of that first castle. No, she’ll be off somewhere else and always just out of reach, despite your best efforts. It’s important to learn that life will repeatedly pull that rug out from under you and that your princess will sometimes be off in “another castle....

3.10 We All Pay Eventually I’m gonna get the obvious out of the way first; the showdown at Camp Genoa, coupled with Proctor’s revenge, made for a perfect conclusion to the season in terms of both plot and emotion. I can’t have been the only one who thought Chayton and the Redbones would be our endgame this year, and I certainly had my concerns when that arc was concluded two episodes before the finale, yet Jonathan Tropper and his team made it work perfectly by tying the clash with Stowe directly to Hood’s lingering guilt over Siobhan’s death....

1.7 Bingo One of the most interesting things about Better Call Saul is the fact that, seven episodes in, the title character has barely appeared. Oh sure, Jimmy McGill looks a lot like Saul Goodman and shares the same cutting wit, but there’s a fundamental difference between the two, and that difference is what makes Better Call Saul so fascinating and ultimately tragic. At its heart this is a show about a man trying to be a good person, even though we all know he will ultimately fail....

2.2 Ourselves Alone No, the central challenge of the 1920s was what to do with men like Jimmy Darmody. His was a generation that had come of age in the shadows, and who, in the words of the most famous of their number had ‘grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken’. It is this emergent ‘lost generation’ that is the focus of episode two, Ourselves Alone....

This review contains spoilers. 4.3. Open House I’ll lay my cards on the table and say that I was a huge fan of Fly, the incredibly divisive bottle episode from the last season of Breaking Bad that took place entirely within the confines of the lab. It was the one that superficially was concerned exclusively with Walt and Jesse’s attempts to deal with a housefly that had inexplicably found its way through the Walt’s airtight contamination restrictions....

The Crazies is unusual for a remake in that it scales down the scope of George Romero’s original, and sets the action in a small town. What was your thinking behind this? But in today’s world, where we’ve had 28 Days Later and all the Romero movies, I thought The Crazies would be better served by spending more time with the heroes. What first attracted you to The Crazies? Romero is famous for making politically-charged movies....

Sega’s fortunes finally changed, though, with the Sega Genesis: a 16-bit, next-gen console that, on its Japanese release in 1988, beat its old rival’s Super NES to the market by almost two years. Unlike the ageing NES, the Genesis could get closer than ever to the speed and vibrancy of Sega’s arcade machines – you only have to compare the NES port of Altered Beast to the one on the Genesis to see how great the technical leap was....

Last week’s episode finally saw Caprica delivering on the promise that it had been diligently building up since the pilot episode. Not wishing to overegg the point, we finally got – in the threats from Vergis – some here and now drama to contend with. Up until that happened, the show had primarily been week after week of laying down foundations. The strongest remains Daniel Graystone again, who continues to resist the overtures of Vergis....