The Walking Dead has employed a new strategy this season. After bringing together the entire (remaining) cast in the season opener, the writers have broken up the principal players. The result is more localized stories that are playing out like high quality short films, that are interconnected. Instead of a serialized weekly drama where characters […]

This week, Constantine faces the music (sorry, I couldn’t resist) while the show’s writers continue to satisfyingly enlarge and enrich his darkly bright world. “The Devil’s Vinyl” plays off the legend of blues guitarist Robert Johnson by showcasing a demonic LP that possesses and generally destroys anyone who listens to the thing. A talentless no-name […]

Gotham is at its best when it’s centered on the police and mob corruption poisoning the city. The action in this episode wastes no time getting into gear as Oswald Cobblepot’s reemergence sets the plot into motion and puts detective Jim Gordon on the run. The usage of the classic Batman villain Victor Zsasz, shows […]

The Walking Dead changed gears this week in an episode that serves to broaden the world that has previously existed. It is reminiscent of the episode last season when the writers took the focus off of Woodbury and the prison and focused on the Governor’s journey. A point was made to emphasize the duplicitous nature […]

On only its second episode, ‘Constantine’ seems to have found a comfortable place in the genre to play around in. If the series’ first episode was clunky and overly expository, if stylish and kind of cool, the second episode is a superior show by leaps and bounds. It’s so much better, in fact, that it […]

Starting with the pilot episode, The Flash has been running at full speed without taking much time off to catch its breath. In this week’s episode some extra complications were thrown in the path of Barry Allen, that will alter the course of the show. This week Allen is confronted by a criminal who has […]

The wait is finally over! But was it worth chanting “Arrive Constantine” over and over again while staring into candle flame every night for months? Probably not. Friday saw the premiere of DC’s Constantine on NBC, and it was, sadly, underwhelming. Pilot episodes are traditionally difficult to pull off well, as writers are often forced to rely […]

In the fifth episode of season, Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller has chosen to broaden the canvas of his up until now, semi-realistic look at the fictional city. In the episode titled, “Viper,” detectives Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock confront a new drug that completely changes the landscape of the city and the show. Meanwhile, Oswald […]

The Flash returns for its second episode and it continues the frantic pace that it established in its pilot. In “Fastest Man Alive,” Barry Allen played by Grant Gustin, begins to test and find out his limits, in a variety of ways. The show opens with its trademark Gustin voice-over, while the Flash is running […]

Gotham is back with its fourth episode of the season. The show is a success and FOX has just approved an additional six episodes to extend its first season. It shows the confidence that the network has in the story that series creator, Bruno Heller, has planned out. This week’s episode “Arkham,” lays out the […]

The Walking Dead is back for its fifth season, louder and more explosive then ever. Unlike last year’s season opener, which was a slow-burner that began with Rick literally gardening the yard, this time he and his band of survivors are ready for combat. It has been an interesting evolution watching (what’s left of) the […]

The Flash returned to television airwaves for the first time since 1991 and overall it was a decent start for the Scarlet Speedster. It does feel like the character has jumped off the comic book page and that is a huge accomplishment for such an ambitious property. The new series is a spin-off of the […]