Paradise is one of the best-written shows I’ve seen in a long time. It’s intricate without being confusing. Multi-layered without pulling away from its core storytelling. And gives answers to its many posed questions at a good enough pace that it’s always surprising that there’s another layer of mystery to uncover.
Baymax! is formulaic, predictable, and utterly charming. It brings a smile with every single episode and feels like something special.
While I do agree that book adaptations need to be accurate to their source material, the first episode of Good Omens is so accurate that I’m left with a dilemma having finished the book so recently: it’s the same thing again. Like, the same. Dialogue is often book accurate, to the word, as is the…
Being underwhelmed is an interesting sensation. It’s not something that we should feel or need to feel, but when expectations and ideas of “how things should be” are not met with agreement of any kind, there will often be a consequential emptiness or disappointment, in most cases anyway. There are of course the few exceptions where what was expected was shattered…
In the UK, three years before Captain Kirk boldly went where no man had gone before, a shabby-looking, blue police telephone box materialized out of thin air and into the hearts and minds of a new generation of viewers. The Doctor had just announced his presence to an early 60s Saturday teatime audience. The blue…
I want to believe. I want to believe that season nine of The X-Files never happened. I recently bought the entire series off of Amazon for a bargain! My girlfriend had never really watched the show so I’ve been using her as an excuse to blast my way through classic X-Files episodes from the very beginning. She…
Here at Sci-Fi Bloggers, we run a lot of individual pieces on the site, each of them revolving around and focusing on a specific topic. Sometimes, however, we like to crank it up a notch and take a look at a few things at once. With that said, we invite you to follow us as we…
First aired January 21st, 2015. New owner Dandy (played by Finn Wittrock) is furious that nobody bought tickets to the freak show after making himself the headliner. He berates several of the freaks for this so they physically and verbally assault him before quitting. Dandy gets dressed up and goes on a shooting spree throughout…
First aired January 14th, 2015. Elsa (played by Jessica Lange) holds a farewell feast for herself while toasting the new owner, Chester (played by Neil Patrick Harris). She then tells Chester she needs a few moments alone with her “monsters” and asks him to step out. Stanley (played by Denis O’Hare) is presented with a…
Here at Sci-Fi Bloggers, we run a lot of individual pieces on the site, each of them revolving around and focusing on a specific topic. Sometimes, however, we like to crank it up a notch and take a look at a few things at once. With that said, we invite you to follow us as we…
First Aired December 10th, 2014. Everyone is still reeling from the sudden death of Ethel (played by Kathy Bates). Her death particularly affects her son, Jimmy (played by Evan Peters), and her ex, Dell (played by Michael Chiklis). Jimmy has continued to stay drunk 24/7 and is hooking up with the freak show’s newest member,…
First Aired December 3rd, 2014. Everyone is combing the woods after realizing Ma Petite (played by Jyoti Amge) has gone missing. All they find is her bloody dress and it’s assumed that she was killed by a wild animal, but not everyone buys that. Ethel (played by Kathy Bates) immediately suspects that Elsa (played by…
