Review: Orphan Black
Orphan Black is BACK on BBC America, and the Canadian production is coming out of the gate swinging—literally, as Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) spent a fair chunk of the episode punching and/or pistol...
Category: Fantasy
The Game of Thrones Cult
Pop culture juggernaut Game of Thrones is returning to the US on 7 April, and the hit HBO series will be simulcast in the UK, showing just how big its fandom has grown—and highlighting the tensions...
Review: The Time of the Doctor
We bade Matt Smith a maudlin and schmaltzy goodbye on Christmas day with ‘The Time of the Doctor,’ the long-awaited Christmas special where we finally got to meet the Doctor’s next incarnation,...
Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Towards the end of their arduous journey to the Lonely Mountain, Bilbo and the Dwarves happen across the burnt out husk of Dale a prosperous town once inhabited by men. Smaug the Magnificent, the...
The Two Worst Shows of 2013
As 2013 draws to a close and the media are filled with retrospectives on the best of, the worst of, and those between, I find myself reflecting on the television I gave up on in 2013 due to complete...
Hard Science Fiction Makes a Comeback in Fox’s Almost Human
Irritatingly, I find myself deeply enjoying yet another police drama. This whole thing is starting to make me highly suspicious about my supposedly anti-establishment leanings—perhaps pop culture...
‘The Day of the Doctor,’ or ‘The Day That Changed Everything’?
For the first time in Steven Moffat’s run on Doctor Who, I found myself actually enjoying one of his episodes, even if it was marked by his usual tendency to radically rewrite history, canon, and...
Review: NBC’s Dracula
Last week brought us the premiere of NBC’s Dracula, in which the title character arrives in 19th century London under the guise of an American industrialist, but if you’re expecting a...
The mesmerising existential crisis of “Suzanne”
Have you ever imagined just how powerful your name is? Both with and without it you are everything and nothing. It can mask and reveal as much about your parents as it can about your own soul....
Review: Sleepy Hollow pilot
Fox debuted its Sleepy Hollow, a strange mashup of “Rip van Winkle,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” an assortment of Biblical myths, and made up apocrypha, this week. The show appears to be...