Even if you think of yourself as a music fanatic, you probably don’t read music reviews, and I don’t blame you at all. Have you ever read a description of a song and pictured the exact sounds in your head? Neither have I. Music simply doesn’t suit itself to the written […]
Supernatural: Brother’s Keeper Recap
Synopsis of 10×23: Sam and Dean are determined to destroy the Mark of Cain in the season 10 finale. Each member of Team Free Will will attempt to find a cure, but each solution comes with a life-altering sacrifice… not to mention the apocalyptic ramifications waiting on the other side. […]
Gotham: Knock, Knock… Recap
Synopsis of 2×02: The maniacs are unleashed and massacre cops at the precinct, Bullock returns to the GCPD Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ Let’s talk about death in Gotham and more generally, death in all televised crime procedurals. By nature of the genre, death is intrinsic in this form of storytelling. Crime procedurals assume death […]
Buffy: Demons of the Hellmouth is a Campy, Nostalgic Ride for all Buffyverse Fans
BUFFY: DEMONS OF THE HELLMOUTH (A GUIDE FOR SLAYERS) Author: Rupert Giles Release Date: September 29, 2015 Publisher: Titan Books Genre(s): Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Spoilers: Mild Rating: ★★★★☆ GoodReads | Amazon As someone who’s been a Buffy fan since she was twelve years old, and who still has a faded Buffy poster inside her closet, […]
Blindspot: A Stray Howl Recap
Synopsis: A tattoo points to an Air Force pilot with a difficult past; a disturbing memory haunts Jane; Weller believes he knows Jane’s identity. Rating:★★★☆☆ I’ll say this for Blindspot, it jumped right in on giving us a strong lead to Jane Doe’s identity. Predictably, given that she had his […]
Doctor Who: The Witch’s Familiar Recap
Summary 9×02: The Doctor is trapped in Skaro with a scheming Davros. Missy and Clara launch a rescue mission, but can the Master really be trusted? Rating: ★★1/2☆☆ If compassion was a disease, the Doctor would be terminal. Any being – human, Time Lord, or otherwise – who can show […]
The #NerdsRead Pull List – September 23, 2015
Sam found Negative Space to be worth the almost three month wait, while The Spire is starting to lose her interest narratively speaking. Kylee also had one awesome read – the always fantastic Arcadia – and one read that she wishes she could quit. At this point, she’s basically hate-reading Fight Club 2 if […]
Fargo: Morton’s Fork Recap
Synopsis of 1×10: The forces of blue collar good and otherworldly evil come to a head in Bemidji, MN as everyone from the FBI to Lorne Malvo guns after one man: Lester Nygaard. Rating: ★★★★1/2 Fargo as a show has long outgrown the film that inspired it. Not in quality, […]
Rose City Comic Con 2015 Invades Portland, Draws a Huge Crowd
Rose City Comic Con came and went again this year. It was my second year attending, and I will say I had slightly less fun this year than the last. I don’t know if I’m just becoming desensitized to conventions, or if this one is simply becoming too crowded, but […]
Fear The Walking Dead: Cobalt Recap
Synopsis for 1×05: A new character is introduced and viewers are given the fates of some of the other characters, as well as what exactly the soldiers have been planning. Rating: ★★★☆☆ The introduction of Strand might be what saves this show for me. Inside some kind of holding cells, he’s talking […]