Previewing Christmas Sail
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Katee Sackhoff and Terry O’Quinn headlining a holiday Christmas movie probably wasn’t on your bingo card, but here we are. Sunday (yes, Halloween) night, the duo play a daughter/father pair who have to repair some old wounds over the holidays. Note that it’s Hallmark Channel and…
Previewing Coyote Creek Christmas
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Hallmark Channel continues its Countdown to Christmas for Halloween weekend (because, you know), and Saturday night, Ryan Paevey is back for his fourth consecutive holiday title, Coyote Creek Christmas, which pairs him with Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars) in her second, after last year’s Holly &…
Previewing Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol: “Noögenesis”
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Thursday, on the next new Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, we dial it back to the (very brutal) origin story of how Zachary became Mal’akh and get a little more insight into how his supposed death further fractured an already tenuous family. Much of the episode…
Previewing Y: The Last Man “Peppers”
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] After splitting up the storytelling this season, Y: The Last Man visits all three arcs in its penultimate episode, “Peppers,” which drops Monday on FX on Hulu. Written by Katie Edgerton and directed by Cheryl Dunye, the episode spins up a fair amount of bedlam on…
Previewing You, Me, and The Christmas Trees
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Warm up the holiday bingo cards, kids, Hallmark Channel is kicking off its “Countdown to Christmas” season Friday with You, Me, and the Christmas Trees, starring Danica McKellar and Benjamin Ayres in a fun first-time pairing as an arborist and a fourth-generation Christmas tree farm owner…
Luke Macfarlane Talks Christmas in My Heart
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] As someone who is deeply affectionate about Fall Harvest movies, I’m always a bit reluctant to dive into the Christmas and holiday movie lineup before we even get to Halloween, but I can get over it when we’re treated to our favorites. For the second year…
Previewing Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol: “Diophantine Pseudonym”
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] With half of its freshman season left, Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol finally puts Peter and Robert in the same room in the current timeline, albeit under fairly extreme duress as they try to decipher the clues and pieces that Robert has assembled. Katherine is running…
Y: The Last Man “Ready, Aim, Fire.” Preview
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] First, it was announced Sunday afternoon that Y: The Last Man won’t be back. With just three episodes left this season, and now, for the series, the action shifts back to the PriceMax, where the fit hits the shan in a hot hurry after some of…
Martha Williamson Talks Signed, Sealed, Delivered: “The Vows We Have Made”
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] It’s been almost eight years to the day since Signed, Sealed, Delivered began its run, first as a film, then as a one-season series, and then as a series of films–and almost three and a half years since the last installment, To the Altar, aired in…
Previewing Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol: “Melencolia I”
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] This week’s new Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol marks the halfway point in the freshman season and finds Peter alive and the bearer of a cryptic message that reunites Robert and Katherine in the race to find him. Part of yet another goose chase initiated by…
Catching Up with Ted Lasso and Previewing Season 2
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] The not so dirty little secret about how I approach a new series is that I sometimes make a call based on the headspace I’m in at the time. It’s been a minute since I’ve picked up a show after the first season and then binge…
Interview: Henri Esteve on Grown-ish Season 3
An interview with Henri Esteve, who plays Javi on Freeform’s Grown-ish. He talks about his season three experience.
For All Mankind Season 2: Talking with Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Jodi Balfour, and Sonya Walger [Exclusive]
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] One of the hooks of For All Mankind is that it’s very much a story about the women of NASA. In Season 2, we explore the journeys of the women in the program, either through their own service or through their family affiliations. Four of those…
Rosy McEwen Talks The Alienist: Angel of Darkness Season Finale [Exclusive]
[Warning: Spoilers for the season finale episodes.] How’s everyone after that finale? I will freely admit I got a little misty in episode eight as John told Sara why he loved her, and later that he wanted her despite what he might forfeit, and then at the end when he…
Rosy McEwen Talks The Alienist: Angel of Darkness [Exclusive]
Hands down, one of the best surprises of The Alienist: Angel of Darkness is that the serial killer this season has been front and center alongside the cast as a fully-formed character. We’ve watched Libby Hatch devolve from a prim, mild-mannered nurse to a woman in a rage hell-bent on…
The Alienist: Angel of Darkness Relationship Recap: John and Sara
[Warning: Spoilers for “Belly of the Beast” and “Memento Mori”] If you’ve read me for a while (thank you!), you know two things — I lean way, way in on the characters I adore and I loathe love geometry arcs. So, I’m torn about where we are and where we…
Louriza Tronco Talks The Order Season 2 [Exclusive]
[Warning: Spoilers ahead for Season 2.] The Order’s second season is dark yet delightful entertainment on many levels, and one of its biggest sources of joy and snark is the sassy Gabrielle Dupres. Last season, she was assertive and deadly and fairly annoyed with the world. This season, she’s been…
Previewing Netflix’s Virgin River
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Full disclosure: I have a Netflix account for my Mom, but I’m not a regular viewer. If I get a heads up on something, I’ll go look for it, but I don’t have a wander across its offerings, which, as I understand it, is how most…
Final Thoughts From the Killjoys Team [Exclusive]
This is the day of the week I’d normally hit you up with a Killjoys preview, but now that we’ve put the series to bed and released Team Awesome Force into the wild, I have one more treat for you–some final thoughts excerpted from my conversations with the Killjoys folks….
Michelle Lovretta Talks Wrapping Up Killjoys [Exclusive]
[Warning: Spoilers for the series finale.] To quote Miss Jackson, “That’s the end?” Yes, friends, it is. And like I promised you, everything would be, was, and is alright. I went to the Killjoys source, series creator Michelle Lovretta, who wrote the last episode, to break down that delicious finale….
What They Said: Three Revealing Conversations from Survivor’s Remorse “Closure”
WARNING: Spoilers for Survivor’s Remorse “Closure” The latest episode of Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse featured conversations that showed characters really digging deep into their thoughts, emotions and motivations.
Two Takes: The Catch “The Knock-Off”
Who can you trust? If this episode of The Catch was any indication, the answer is just about nobody. Betrayal was running rampant as Felicity (Shivani Ghai) arose from the dead to seduce-con Margot, Gretchen (Maria Thayer, Gotham, The Mindy Project) played gold-hearted Alice 2.0 before swindling Ethan, Tessa jumped…
What They Said: Top 3 Quotable Moments from Preacher “El Valero”
Both Quincannon and Jesse refuse to give up on what they each think is rightfully theirs. While Jesse is struggling to face the consequences of his actions, Quincannon has laid his past demons to rest and is hellbent on moving forward and putting Annville on the map again. Despite a…
What They Said: Favorite Quotes from Supergirl “Worlds Finest”
Oh, Supergirl. That ending was cold. But I can’t hate on you because the latest episode has quickly become one of my favorites.
What They Said: Top 4 Quotable Moments from Black Sails “XXIII”
The dialogue in “XXIII” is phenomenal. It’s always a fun ride when Black Sails carries its viewers along without giving them the chance to catch their breath. When an episode moves at this unforgiving pace, there is no chance for a breather nor is there a respite from the information…
What Lucifer Said: Favorite quotes from Supernatural “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Supernatural episodes are almost always funny but thanks to the dialogue and a certain man speaking said dialogue, I laughed a lot during “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” You know, when I wasn’t busy fearing for Sam’s life or wondering what in the world was going on with Dean and…
What They Said: The Flash, “Legends Of Today” and Arrow, “Legends Of Yesterday”
Two nights of Arrow + The Flash = what more could we ask for?! I don’t know what it is about blending these shows, but I can’t help but feel that every time they come together, they somehow become greater than the sum of their parts. And that’s saying a lot…
What they Said: Top 4 Quotable Moments from Graceland “Little Bo Bleep”
Shoot outs. Fake outs. And long-awaited revelations. “Little Bo Bleep” was a jam-packed episode that wrapped up some loose ends and totally frayed others. Â It finally gave us one Sarkissian in jail and pulled back the curtain on Briggs’ master plan, but it also set up Jakes for a world…
What They Said: Favorite Quotes from Poldark “Part 4”
“What have I told you, I don’t require my wife to crochet and sip tea, but I do require her to remember she’s not a beast of burden.†No, I’m not talking about The Rolling Stones! I have to admit though, just for a second, the lyrics popped into my…
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