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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA!!! ENLIGHTENED *** (out of ****) Instead of introducing Amy Jellico, played by Laura Dern, to us and letting us try to decide how we feel about her, Enlightened gives us an opening scene where she has a mental breakdown at work, and then moves directly to a montage of her at…
Read MoreDC NEW 52 Wrap Rap: Part 2
In which we wrap the rap up! RH: If in a month, or six months, or a year, sales are exactly back to what they were, is this a total failure? Or did the line need a shot in the arm anyway? How much regret do you foresee DC feeling at some point down…
Read MoreDC NEW 52 Wrap Rap: Part 1
In which Mike and Ryan rap the wrap up of the DC reboot’s first month. Ryan Haley: Hey. Mike Gravagno: Hi! RH: So, we’re done. PHEW! Right? MG: I feel ten years older. RH: We have both officially read all 52 number one issues in the DC “rebootâ€, which, for the purposes of…
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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA!!! JESSIE ** (out of ****) The Disney Channel puts another sitcom on the barbie with Jessie, starring Debby Ryan, a Disney product. Ryan (FINALLY) gets her chance to be the star after appearing in something called The Suite Life on Deck, which is a show featuring a title that makes no…
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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA HOMELAND ***1/2 (out of ****) Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner. We’re only halfway through this two month barrage of brand new, televised garbage, but based on the first month, I’d be surprised if it got better than this. Claire Danes stars as CIA agent Carrie Anderson…
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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA!!! CHINA, IL ** (out of ****) On paper, the idea of Adult Swim is pretty genius, and rare. What other channel or sub-channel offers television creators, mostly of the animated sort, a chance to put whatever comes out of their crazy, drug addled brains, with the only rules being the…
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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA!!! THE NERDIST ** (out of ****) The Nerdist makes the leap from podcast to actual television show this season, and fans of the podcast shouldn’t be disappointed, as long as you’re also a fan of not having a good reason to update a podcast into a television show. For the uninitiated,…
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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA!!! HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN ** (out of ****) The Odd Couple by any other name is still The Odd Couple, regardless of the gimmick it uses to get said Odd Couple together. In this case, we have David Hornsby, a former It’s Always Sunny writer (and Rickety Cricket!), as…
Read MoreTHE NEW DCU: WEEK FIVE
WEEK FIVE ALL STAR WESTERN If you are using the DCnU launch to get into comics for the first time, or get back into comics after a long time off, than you might be confused as to why DC would base a comic on one of the biggest flops in film history. If you were…
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FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA!!! SUBURGATORY *** (out of ****) Yes, the creators of Suburgatory have seen Mean Girls before. If we can move past that for one second, and sometimes they make that tough, we’re left with what Suburgatory offers that isn’t Mean Girls “inspired”, for lack of a better term. To my complete shock…
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