Our contest ends very late tonight. Hurry! Bleh! –Count Spatula First aired November 12, 2014. With twins Bette and Dot (played by Sarah Paulson) out of the picture, Elsa (played by Jessica Lange) is on top of the world. She is preparing a lavish birthday celebration for herself and is ready to start her career…
First aired November 5, 2014. The episode opens with Stanley (played by Denis O’Hare) and Maggie (played by Emma Roberts) attending a museum opening featuring people from the freak show as exhibits. It turns out to be a fantasy of Stanley’s who is gleefully anticipating making a fortune from people in the show. Stanley uses…
First aired October 29th, 2014. Edward Mordrake (played by Wes Bentley) is continuing his search for a freak to add to his ghostly coterie. He visits the tents of several people in the freak show and forces them to relive their most painful memories. Mordrake visits people like Paul the Illustrated Seal (played by Mat…
First aired October 22nd, 2014. It’s that time of the year for the AHS two-part Halloween special. This year the show focuses on the legend of Edward Mordrake (played by Wes Bentley). Edward Mordrake was a man in the 19th century born with a second face on the back of his head that drove him…
First aired October 15th, 2014. Episode two of Freak Show introduces new characters and sets up season-long story arcs. There will be lots of chaos as the show moves forward, and AHS hasn’t lost its capacity for shocking visuals. Strongman Dell Toledo (played by Michael Chicklis) and his hermaphrodite wife, Desiree Dupree (played by Angela Bassett),…
First aired October 8th, 2014. “What you’re about to see will astound your senses and harrow your very souls.” American Horror Story: Freak Show hit the ground running, opening the series with a milkman walking into a house and finding a woman brutally murdered. But it’s his discovery of Bette and Dot Tattler (played by…
For those of you who’ve been living under a rock for the past fifty years, Doctor Who is (aside from a sixteen-year gap between 1989 and 2005) one of the longest-lasting science fiction shows in the history of television. The series features the Doctor, a humanoid alien (called a Time Lord) who travels the universe…
Bleh, bleh, bleh! Velcome, my children, to the Veek of Blood! I am your host, Count Spatula. Ve have a very special treat for you, so please continue reading vhile ve explain to you the agenda. From this Sunday to the next, you vill find, in addition to your regular abundance of sci-fi articles, a…
Season two of Once Upon a Time decided to take its format in a different direction by splitting into two volumes. The idea itself was good but the execution left something to be desired. The first half of the season deals with Snow White/Mary Margaret (played by Ginnifer Goodwin) and Emma (played by Jennifer Morrison)…
Felix Dawkins is the unofficial star of Orphan Black. This is not an easy task to achieve, as he shares the platform with a set of amazingly feisty and intelligent women. The task becomes more difficult still when realizing that Felix comes from a dwindling portion of characters that aren’t played by Tatiana Maslany. His…
If you’re really looking for something dreadful to watch, I recommend Showtime’s Victorian horror series Penny Dreadful. Not to be confused with the 2006 automobile horror film of the same name, Penny Dreadful boasts a star-studded cast of actors to inhabit its equally impressive roster of literary heroes. So far, it echoes the gorgeously gory…
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! We’ve all contemplated it at one point or another, tossed the idea back and forth in our minds. You know the one, the concept that this beautiful world in which we’re living is, in actuality, an elaborate fabrication. It’s that eerie suspicion that something this complex, this intricate, couldn’t possibly be real….
