Dracula is a better show, sorry.

I hope the black folk win. And for Marie to get another salon. I find myself liking and sympathizing with none of these characters, except maybe Zoe, who seems to be a victim of genetics. I agree, as horror this is messy and confusing. Disappointing. I missed most of season 2 but liked what I saw. This is a mess…

I think the problem with nihilism is not that the show is nihilistic in setting and story, but rather, the script writing depends on it, and that can get you into trouble. There is a nihilistic telos written into the story. Just like a show that always has a happy ending is intolerable after awhile or one in which…

As much as I like good zombie flicks (and Juan of the Dead is a surprisingly good one if you are interested), the problem wiht a story of zombie genre is that zombies are kind of boring. They walk and they eat and that's about it. They are the proletariat of the undead, the mass mob of mindless automatons that only…

I was going to make the same argument, but honestly, I am less sure. There is a theme of nihilism running through the plot that almost forces the plot forward. The comic has the same problem, making story telling formulaic and driving characters to do some very stupid things. A decent dose of nihilism to be…

I agree. Kirkman's comics are pretty weak and foolish, and tend to be repetitive, with people getting whacked primarily to keep the story line going. This was something that came up in Talking Dead after the show- everyone has a shelf life on the show. That said, I think a major problem with the show is that it…

Although the remake of Night of the Living Dead was actually, in some ways, better than the original. I refer to the one featuring Tony Todd. Once again you have the black working class guy meets middle class white family guy fighting for control over the house, but the female character does of some independence and…

A red ryder BB Gun. And Joan Jett. Damn, I think that's showing age.

As much as I am looking forward to returning to Treme, I am a bit worried that this is a 1/2 season. The last time Simon & Co. truncated a season, the last on the Wire, it didn't work out as well as the rest of the series. I hope this is better. I don't expect closure for all the characters, but, a nice send off.
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Could you have imagined Rod Stewart's version of Robbie Robertson's Broken Arrow? Maybe, but it would have shown a sensitive side to Kyle, and one might have respected him for knowing the original and better version of a song covered by Rod Stewart. Had he favored the Rod Stewart… well… what's taking them so long to…

UFO- awesome show. Submarines that launch aircraft, those weird tanks, the moon base with the interceptors and the chicks with blue hair. Awesome stuff. Thanks for the reminder.
I Claudius- best show on TV ever.
But Thanksgiving Weekend and no All in the Family?

The problem for Martinez might have been that he also saw the Governor snap and wipe out his first army that attacked the prison, and so might be thinking a second try at the same "fools errand" might be a bad idea. But thinking that the Governor might have anticipated that is, I suspect, asking a bit too much. So…

"Do you think I am sexy" actually is 1970s, Rod Stewart goes Disco period. Ok, "Young hearts.. beat free. tonight.."- also a terrible choice.

The most horrible thing about this show is the 1980s flashback soundtrack. I suspect there is a theme in all of this- that rock can't venerate the "classic" without sacrificing its future- and the musical choices are about as appropriate as the zombie/army of darkness reruns- its zombified music that is the true…

The only thing more horrible than Lily's fixation on Stevie NIcks was Kyle's love of Toto. Really, that bit left me thinking,"Yep, they really should have let that poor bastard die." This kid lives in New Orleans and gives up the Blue for Toto? I suspect the real horror of this show is its terrible taste in music. …

This show is really about the moral bankruptcy of modern feminism, and in that sense, it turns the use of witchcraft as a means to repress women (an anti-feminist means of repression) as the vehicle that keeps women repressed today. Consider Queenie's moral failings "Oh I don't know how I feel about telling a lie to…

As I recall, Joe Walsh said she was a "white witch." Yeah. Really? Stevie Nicks is listened to by witches today? And they dig this? In New Orleans-perhaps America's most musical city? I remember suffering through that adolescent horror and now it returns! Will the horrors never cease? I mean, I can get the…

I have to admit I am beginning to enjoy this show. There is a bit of steam punk and a twist on the Dracula story, with enough of that undercurrent of romance that actually kind of works here. Dracula's own American accent is a bit annoying and I suspect that this vampire story is going to either go too Twilight or…

My guess is that the reason why it took two hours to tell the story instead of one episode, is that one hour wouldn't have developed the juxtaposition between the Governor and everyone else. If most of the episodes have been about character choices, this one is also one of character choices- of the Governor's…

Bit brutal here. I thought the joy of this episode was that you never quite know if the Governor is going to pop, and he has plenty of reason to. There is a bit of madness as he dispatches the zombies that I thought reflects the madness and anger still inside of him, even if another side is trying to reconnect. …