By all accounts, NBC’s Hannibal should not be a show I’m even watching, let alone breathlessly anticipating every week. For starters, it’s a prequel, that laziest form of storytelling that offers much in the way of fan service but little in the way of drama or surprise, as the audience always knows exactly where the [...]
Good news, people. There’s going to be a Veronica Mars movie, a continuation of the mostly great 2005-07 TV series that featured Kristen Bell as a whipcrack-smart pixie detective who solves crimes while navigating the hells of high school and later college. Though the second season was a little bit of a comedown after the [...]
The first time I ever actively noticed David Costabile was in season one of Damages, where he played Rick Messer, a crooked, murdering police detective responsible for doing Ted Danson’s dirty work. The guy was pure scumbag. You couldn’t help but feel your stomach lurch whenever he was on screen. Costabile was so good in [...]
Talking to a friend the other day, I mentioned how I was going to pass on sampling any of the new TV dramas debuting this winter because I was hoping to cut back on the amount of television I watch for a while to catch up on some movies. He said he was considering the [...]
Just the other day, i got into a debate with Cult Spark podcaster Tim Kelly over whether the cracks started to show in the recently concluded fourth season of Louis CK’s often brilliant FX dramedy. He’s of the opinion that Louie turned too melodramatic this year, with the overcooked Parker Posey story arc presented as [...]
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon’s four-year-old Web musical, has its TV debut tonight at 9 p.m. on The CW. If somehow you’ve never seen it, check it out as it’s seriously one of the best things the man has ever done. Whedon’s tale of a wannabe criminal mastermind (Neil Patrick Harris) trying to climb [...]
Many of the first reviews for Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO series The Newsroom hurled similar criticisms at the show: It’s preachy. It’s hyper-idealized. The characters aren’t much more than devices made to deliver politicized speeches. And just based on last Sunday’s pilot — the only episode I’ve seen — there’s certainly some validity to those [...]
Just a few weeks ago, Aaron Paul announced on his Twitter feed that he had opened an Instagram account (user name: glassofwhiskey). This is notable because Aaron Paul is one of the leads on Breaking Bad, the very best TV show currently in production. (Yeah, I know — last week’s Game of Thrones was all [...]
Actually, to clarify a bit, season two of Sherlock starts this Sunday for those of us who live in America and try to be good upstanding gents and ladies who don’t watch pirated television. The three new 90-minute episodes of the endlessly entertaining BBC series already aired this past January in the U.K., while those [...]
I’m a pretty huge Clive Barker fan. I read a lot of horror in my teens and twenties, including all the hallmark Stephen King books, but it was always Barker’s stuff that stuck with me the most. It was weirder, sexier and more inventive than anything else out there at the time. Hell, when people [...]
Man, when are David Milch fans going to catch a break? First, the guy’s masterwork, HBO’s complex and profane Deadwood, was axed in its prime. Then, his follow-up series, the bizarre yet underrated John From Cincinnati, left audiences and critics so perplexed that HBO washed its hands of it after just ten episodes. Finally, things [...]
You call this a new Ace Hardware commercial. I call it a prequel to Breaking Bad season four. Yep, that’s Gus Fring’s right-hand man Tyrus selling paint to the lady. He seems nice enough here, but one has to assume that dealing with customers like this all day could drive a man a little crazy. [...]
