TV Review: The Strain 1×13, The Muppet – I mean, “The Master”

My opinion of your show doesn’t bode well if its season finale feels more like a pilot episode than the actual pilot episode. Maybe I’m so spoiled with high quality zombie/vampire lore in media that The Strain had no chance…

TV Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2×2, “Heavy is the Head”

Earth_199999//Recap 0202//september_30_2014 Last week, Coulson and company reemerged from the shadows to retrieve a mysterious object referred to by HYDRA as the Obelisk, and had their first encounter with Carl Creel, the Absorbing Man. This week’s chapter “Heavy is the…

TV Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2×1 – “Shadows”

I’m going to be upfront about this: I was torn on season one of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I stuck with it for the first six episodes, and kind of gave up. It takes a lot for me to tune into…

TV Review: Fox’s Gotham 1×1, “Pilot”

We get a lot of different kinds of television shows these days, and with the new fall season upon us, high concept ideas are certainly running rampant.  This has led to the development of a number of comic-based TV shows,…

TV Review: The Strain 1×9, “The Disappeared”

This summer’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 is one of the worst offenders I’ve ever seen of plot convenience (as has been detailed over the internet since its Blu-ray release), but in terms of a plot-point-to-runtime ratio, this week’s episode of The…

Not Only Gamers

This month of August has been one of the most frustrating in a long time for a number of reasons. One of those reasons has been a Twitter trend dubbed #GamerGate, which in recent weeks has been a conflict between…

July & August 2014 Best New Album Releases

[tps_header]July & August 2014 Best New Album Releases[/tps_header] It’s that time of the month again, in which I try to rush writing what’s been good in music for the last month, or months in this case, since I haven’t done…