In 1980 George Perez rebooted an old DC title called New Teen Titans. This was one of my favorite comic books. Great story arcs, amazing artwork, and all kinds of cool stuff happening each and every issue. These were often stories about the end of the world, major problems with parents and guardians, and occasional conflicts with each other. This was right before the birth of the all powerful Graphic Novel and looking back now the artwork looks more like a comic book and less groundbreaking than it did at the time. So, flash forward about 35 years and the Teen…
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Mr Robot
The story of an insane man who happens to be a world class computer genius. He hacks in his spare time and works as a cubicle drone during the day. One day a mysterious man approaches him and talks to him. I know how you feel. You think something is wrong with the world. You are The One…oh, wait, that was The Matrix. I have to wonder if the producers thought, just for a moment or two, about getting Laurence Fishburne to play the part that Christian Slater plays. The cast could certainly use a little color and it would…
Person of Interest:Samaritan, Good?
I wasn’t too impressed with this show when it first started. The story of a minor league Skynet and the man who created it/her/him/whatever. But over the past few episdoes it has changed into something a bit more interesting. The Machine has a rival known as Samaritan. The idea being that this new Artificial Intelligence is a good guy. But Samaratian is a good guy in the same sense that Nazi Germany and Eugenics are good guys. We can all agree that there are some people the world would be better off without, among them would be Nazi Germany and…
Game of Thrones Season 5
There is a certain morbid pleasure that comes from watching a show where you know that any of the characters could, at any moment, die a horrible death. Death is the defining aspect of Game of Thrones. Violent death, well, what other kind is there? There is a soft kind of logic in Game of Thrones, nothing is ever what it appears to be and you really can’t trust anyone. But there are plenty of times when the show makes no damned sense at all. There was one death scene in the first few episodes that kind of bothered me.…
American Crime
“American Crime” stars Richard Cabral as Hector Tonz, Elvis Nolasco as Carter, Caitlin Gerard as Aubry, Johnny Ortiz as Tony Gutierrez, Benito Martinez as Alonzo Gutierrez, Timothy Hutton as Russ, Felicity Huffman as Barb, W. Earl Brown as Tom and Penelope Ann Miller as Eve. American Crime has a very good cast and it looks good as well. The title makes me think of mobsters and shotouts on the streets of Chicago in the 1930s. The kind of show where the good guys wear white hats and the bad guys chew on cigars. But that’s not what American Crime is…
iZombie on the CW
Episode one of iZombie jumps right into the action. We get a brief scene of our hero as a normal woman going about the business of being a doctor, then she goes to a party and is scratched by a zombie, thus becoming one herself. We then flash forward a few months, and no one has noticed that she’s now a zombie. She quits her residency as a surgeon in favor of a job in the morgue, where she can help herself to brains when the need arises. A side effect of her braining eating is that she gets flashes…
Violence on TV-Too much or is it just me?
It seems today, that all you see is violence in movies, and sex on T.V. -opening of Family Guy I don’t watch as much Network TV as I used to, but the shows I do like tend to be on the tame side. Big Bang Theory, Heart of Dixie, Person of Interest, Blue Bloods, Forever, and Downton Abbey. True, there is a bit violence in these shows, but it’s usually pretty mild and often happens off screen. I’m not against violence, I watch R-Rated movies and Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones are two of the best shows of the…
12 Monkeys on Syfy
It’s been a while since I last watched Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys, but I do recall that it was pretty amazing. It had a brilliant cast and a wonderful premise. Everyone was dead and we just didn’t know it yet. One of the best parts of 12 Monkeys was that we didn’t know whether Cole was really a time traveler or just crazy. We also didn’t understand his mission for some time. We have no such mysteries to worry about in Syfy’s 12 Monkeys, which goes into much more detail about Cole’s ability to travel through time and proves right…
The Twelfth Doctor Who
When Doctor Who was brought back from the dead many years ago, and the role was handed off to Christopher Eccleston, everyone was thrilled and the show was great. Then Eccleston said to hell with this nonsense after one season and there was a great gnashing of teeth and ripping of hair. But then there was a miracle, real actor and actual good looking fellow David Tennant landed the role. David set the tone for the modern Doctors, a man who is both a lot of fun and a cold blooded murder bent on righting wrongs and possibly destroying the…
Forever
Our hero is an immortal who just can’t seem to stay dead. He dies three times in the first episode and once or twice in the second. Since his gift of immortality is a magical one, his body kindly vanishes every time this happens. I like Forever, it has a great cast and I’m always glad to see Judd Hirsch in anything. The show looks good and there are a lot of costumes and sets as we move around in time to see what our two hundred year old hero has been up to lo these many years. The main…