I have long been a fan of Starz’s Spartacus, the performances and the plot told within a story so violent and adult is a god send to someone like me who has never quite understood our culture’s aversion to nudity, sex, and all things inexplicably Roman. While the show itself has had its detractors thanks [...]

Earlier this month Fox announced at the 2012 Television Critics Association winter press tour in Los Angeles that the new cartoon comedy by Jonah Hill, Allen Gregory will not be returning for a second season. Allen Gregory was a show with a huge ad campaign and was part of a production deal Fox signed with [...]

Something about the idea of bringing the original creators and all the original actors from the cult 2004 indie film, Napoleon Dynamite, to an animated series caught my interest. Even enough to write about it in a post. As I stated in that short article covering my thoughts on the concept, I didn’t much care [...]

It is odd to me that a series would dedicate itself to a genre style in which it is the most difficult to craft a good story. When it comes to cinema, the horror movie is most known for producing a ton of misses and the very rare hit. It is difficult to craft a [...]

Season 6 of Dexter is over, the final episode aired on December 18th and it ended on one of the biggest cliff-hangers yet. There were a lot of story threads that came into play during season 6 that served the purpose of setting up the next season, and if those story threads are anything to [...]

It isn’t often in Australian television that a truly original concept show emerges onto our screens. Inundated with soapies, the likes of Neighbours and Home & Away, our usual alternatives are restricted to drama-comedies like Packed to the Rafters and Offspring, or cop shows such as Rush and Rescue: Special Ops. The rest of our [...]

Faeries, werewolves and vampires, Oh my! Television, like life, is cyclical. From what I’ve observed over the years each cycle is usually between seven and ten years long. Thanks to the pop culture phenomenon, and bane of my horror genre-loving existence; The Twilight Saga the horror cycle has returned to television earlier than it would [...]