Tag Archives: Homeland

Homeland – Season Two – The Smile A friend of mine recently inquired about the show Homeland which recently returned to air after cleaning up at this season’s Emmy awards.  “Is it worth watching?”  I couldn’t give him a straight answer.  It’s a great show but its perpetually one episode away from collapsing into 24 levels of silliness.  I’m talking ...

Black Mirror Black Mirror is a three part futuristic drama created by Charlie Brooker.  Each episode is thematically related in showing a rather bleak and morbid view of how the future could be if taken to an extreme length.  Some of the themes and motifs that are covered include 24 hour news media, reality television, social networking and video game ...

Survivor: South Pacific – Season 23 – “Double Agent” *contains spoilers for episode eight’s eviction* The latest season of Survivor has really hit its stride with the eighth episode as the two tribes head into a merger and with several players on the show now carrying pretty compelling stories leading into the final few episodes.  Of the two returning players, ...

Terra Nova -104 “What Remains” I am trying really hard to like Terra Nova, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park meets Avatar tv show but after four episodes I am pretty close to throwing in the towel.  My god…the writing.  It hurts my brain. Whats been surprising about Terra Nova which showed signs of promise in its pilot is that after two ...