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Last night's Being Human episode tipped the scales with a little fantasy wish fulfillment, a new "big bad," and a general raise of excellence. Take note, Fall 2011's fantasy-laden programming: this is the supernatural soap opera we want. More »
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Tonight's episode of The Walking Dead, "Guts," wasn't as pensive at the season premiere, but it offered up an enjoyable, panicked escape from Atlanta. We also learned that being a crazy white supremacist is an old habit that dies hard. More »
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Oh, Smallville. Remember how you teased us with Darkseid and Lex Luthor's machinations from beyond the grave earlier this season? Well, that's all been swept under the rug. Friday's so-so episode, "Ambush," gave us a clichéd holiday from hell. More »
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Last week's spooky Smallville was some insane amalgam of The Wicker Man, Robin Williams' Jack, and Tommy Wiseau's The Room. It combined country bumpkin human sacrifices with a creepy turbo-aging Lex Luthor with softcore erotica...with Superman! More »
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The Frank Darabont-directed series premiere of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead debuted tonight on AMC. This opening episode was a solid addition to the undead canon, and the show makes an excellent case for adapting serialized comics for television. More »
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Last night's Venture Bros. episode, "The Silent Partners," drove home that the show's title is increasingly becoming a misnomer. Who were the key players? Billy Quizboy, Brock, Monstroso, and the Pirate. Oh, and a robotic Hazzard boy. Good ol' RoboBo. More »
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Friday's episode of Smallville, "Isis," was a villain-of-the-week tale punctuated by moments of intense cuteness. Smallville is at its best with a little levity, but man, they are layering on the love. Also, Green Arrow got his own breakfast cereal! More »
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Sunday's Venture Bros., "Assisted Suicide," was a kaleidoscopic journey through the recesses of Rusty's mind. There was a creepy child harem master, encounters with Doc's ego and superego, and lusty game-changing moment with Dr. Girlfriend and Henchman 21. More »
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Friday's Smallville, "Homecoming," was a change of pace from what we've seen thus far this season. An old villain returned in an unexpected way, Clark flash-forwarded to the Metropolis of 2017, and 90% of the episode took place in Smallville. More »
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Sunday's episode of Venture Bros., "Bright Lights, Dean City," followed Dean to NYC, where he interns at Impossible Industries. Unfortunately, Dr. Impossible has recently turned evil, so Dean must oversee supervillain try-outs. Get ready for Ladyhawke and Lyndon Bee Johnson! More »
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Last Friday's Smallville, "Supergirl," was an insane hodgepodge. Kara came back to lecture Clark and take glamour shots, Lois masqueraded as a dominatrix at Club Desaad, and Darkseid took over an ersatz Glenn Beck who called superheroes "mutants." Whuh? More »
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Last night's Venture Bros., "Everybody Comes To Hank's," was a noir pastiche, complete with fedoras, molls, and Hank's self-appointed "Girl Friday," The Alchemist. We also learned dark secrets about Dermott's true parentage and, oh yeah, Hank becomes a man. Baaarf. More »
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The latest episode of Smallville, "Shield," maintained the rapid pace of the season premiere by introducing a slew of "Smallvillized" DC characters like Deadshot and Cat Grant. Also, Clark ditches the trenchcoat for a snazzy new jacket. More »
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Last night's Venture Bros., "Every Which Way But Zeus," began with a Greek god kidnapping a bunch of B-list characters and ended with some poignant revelations about Hank's relationship with Doc. Also, Doc sexually propositions a Teddy Ruxpin. Yup. More »
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So last night's pilot of The Event didn't quite go as well as one might hope. The ratings were meh, and reviews have been mixed. What would this show have to do to win its audience over? More »
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Last night's Venture Bros. saw the show's heroes and villains go through life ch-ch-changes. Hank and Dean graduated from their learning pods, and Phantom Limb reached out (an invisible, metaphorical hand) to an antagonist viewers haven't seen in a spell. More »
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The first episode of Season 4.5 of The Venture Bros., "The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter Glider," probed the dark secrets (literally) lodged inside Doc Venture. Also, the Monarch wants to diddle a mechanical butterfly. Damn we missed this show. More »
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Last Sunday's True Blood took all the long-winded fang banter about vampire kings, vampire queens, magisters, vampire equality acts, and "authorities" and turned it into something interesting. From here on out, vampire politics cease to be boring! Some NSFW pics. More »
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The insanity of the last episode was pretty difficult to follow. But when you tape a character to a toilet, put Sookie incognito, and then introduce another half-naked girl, you're building yet another classic episode of True Blood. More »
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Tonight, Syfy is rolling out two new premieres. And while we are excited to return to Eureka, we may cancel our next trip to Haven. While this little town's mysterious supernatural backstory shows promise, the intrigue is lost at sea. More »
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Full-scale war broke out on the Destiny last weekend on Stargate Universe. Guns were fired, characters were injured and sexy leather villains entered the mix. But this week's hero wasn't a soldier or a leader, but rather the nerd, Eli. More »
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Last week, FlashForward protagonist Mark Benford barged into my home, soused to the gills and absolutely livid that ABC axed his show for Fall 2010. Since then, we've reached a shaky rapprochement, had some bro-chat, and wrote FlashForward's ending. More »
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I was going to recap the penultimate episode of FlashForward, but I was sidelined by an unexpected guest. The star of the show, Mark Benford, materialized on my doorstep drunk as a skunk and totally despondent about his show's cancellation. More »
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On the Smallville season finale - "Salvation" - the messiah metaphors were groan-worthy, the action was gee-whiz, one star's face was blown off, and there was a slew of spandex-clad set-up for next season. Spoilers on! More »
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With Flashforward not returning this fall, it seems a tad moot to recap this episode. We're doing this for posterity's sake at this point, people. More »
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The newly committed Chuck and Sarah couple meet the CIA's most successful married spies: Fred Willard and Swoozie Kurtz. Oh, and there's a tiger, the Awesomes' African adventure, and Morgan posting up on Big Mike. More »
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Chuck and Sarah are finally together, romancing their way across Europe. But is the spy life the life they truly want, or is it time for them to leave it all behind for love? Not if evil can help it. More »
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On Friday's Smallville – "Charade" – Lois finds herself betwixt allegiances to Clark and the Blur, Maxwell Lord showed up to brain-drain Lois, and our reporters get canned from the Daily Planet. Also, never date Clark Kent. He'll stalk ya. More »
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On last Friday's Smallville ("Upgrade"), Metallo jumped up to get beat down, Clark acted like a creepy boyfriend (both with and without the influence of red Kryptonite), and Zod became the new Kryptonian messiah. More »
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You know FlashForward is a very special program when it can't even make its plucky child protagonist likable. Seriously, Charlie Benford is a pint-sized harbinger of adultery. It's like she wants her mom to cheat on her dad or something. More »
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With FlashForward supposedly on the cusp of cancellation, I feel obligated to do my part to keep the show on the air. That's why I'm informing you that Thursday's episode, "Queen Sacrifice," was one hour of unfiltered raunch. More »
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On last Friday's Smallville, every main character got laid, Clark stammered cryptically about dirty dancing lessons he got from Jor-El, and Silver Banshee showed up to die immediately. It was exactly like the 1950s George Reeves serials, but with fornication. More »
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I just watched last week's Supernatural, "Dark Side Of The Moon" a second time, so I could hear Dean say again that Heaven "isn't Nirvana - it's the Matrix." How can paradise be bad, when there's beer? Spoilers ahead! More »
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Stargate Universe is back and delivering big time. New aliens, adventure, murders, conspiracy and space-age gardens. Even the stones get a purpose in this premiere. Sure it had its flaws, but all in all it was packed with spacey goodness. More »
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This week's Flashforward - "Better Angels" - had a gee-whiz start, a slam-bang finish, and a soggy middle. It was like Mark Benford served us a baloney sandwich on two slices of artisanal Tuscan focaccia. More »
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On Ugly Americans this week, Mark babysits, Callie wants to adopt the baby, and Twayne wants to eat the baby. Also, Mark almost dies maybe a half-dozen times this episode. That's once every 5 minutes. More »
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FlashForward is about people trying to divine meaning from a bunch of random images. Similarly, FlashForward's a show in which audiences attempt to divine plot from a bunch of random images. Just what the heck did we watch last Thursday? More »
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Last night's episode of Ugly Americans - "An American Werewolf In America" - expanded the show's weird NYC universe with unruly lycanthropes, exploding magic lions, wizard open mic nights, and yes, a Brobdingnagian toddler attorney. More »
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Friday's Caprica episode, "Ghost In The Machine," focused entirely on the twisted things that men will do for their cyber-daughters - and to them. It was probably the most disturbing episode yet. And those surreal videogame sequences were completely insane. More »
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Friday night's episode of Sanctuary saw the return of snarky vampire inventor Nikola Tesla, intent on bringing bloodsuckers back into existence by transforming trust fund babies into vamps. First they call him their Obama, then things don't go so well. More »
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