I didn't watch anything last night because I don't live in the US. Most filmed stage productions are filmed live, however.

Adam James (Don Pedro) has been getting a little more TV work recently, though nothing terribly exciting. What I'd really love to see is bigger roles for Sarah MacRae, who played Hero and was utterly fantastic.

The production ran in 2011, I think. It really is a great show - much better than the Whedon movie, for my money. Tennant and Tate are fantastic, and she in particular finds a lot of notes in Beatrice that I hadn't considered before. But the whole cast is fantastic - it's the first production I've seen that really…

Well, I guess all those people wondering what happened to Shatner's promised guest arc on Haven have their answer…

There are plenty of examples of stage shows filmed in front of a live audience. In those cases, the production simply utilizes the original, theatrical staging. Filming a stage production without an audience can give you the advantage of switching settings (see, for example, the filmed version of the RSC's Hamlet…

I've mentioned before my feeling that iZombie is using zombieism as a metaphor for chronic illness/living with mental illness, and I thought this episode was a great example of that - better than usual, obviously, since Liv eats a mentally ill person, inherits her dysfunction, and processes it through the issues in…

And yet I kind of got the sense that she was deliberately toying with Liv in the final scene? I don't think she expects Major to come back, and she knew that Liv had seen her texts, so I assumed she knew that Liv might be at the other end of that conversation.

It's pretty weak on the procedural front, though. See also Elementary. They're both shows I like a lot, but where the case of the week seems to exist mainly as connective tissue to hold the character/worldbuilding together. iZombie is much better at integrating those elements and writing good, interesting cases.

I thought perhaps we were meant to think that the woman was mentally unbalanced - certainly some of the stuff she said before "Ferguson!" was on the ranty end of the scale, and the fact that she wouldn't stop talking might indicate some kind of compulsive behavior. She may have been annoying (and I agree that the…

Cole is clearly damaged. First by his messed-up family history, and second by the death of his son. But as Luisa says, a lot of people go through terrible things, including herself. Cole feels free to make his problems other people's problems - and even, as we see in this episode, to appropriate other people's…

It's not as if previous seasons have spent so much time outside of Haven (hell, Duke's storyline this season might actually win that crown). I don't even think they're bothering to CGI the mist barrier in the background any more.

Hanzee's in his mid-forties at least, so the scene in the classroom would have been set in 1940-ish. For that era, I don't think it was particularly ramshackle - I certainly never got the sense that the residential schools were particularly luxurious. You're right, though, that this is something I'm assuming rather…

I literally do not have enough upvotes for this news.

Once again, there are too many comments here for me to read, so possibly this has been said already. But, first: Peggy motherfucking Blumquist, am I right, folks? Forget about the butcher of Luverne, it's the hairdresser of Luverne that we need to watch out for. Also, welcome to Kirsten Dunst's Emmy reel. I…

I think the point everyone was making was that he's an adult and it's time for him to act like one. He can try to forgive his mother, or he can choose not to, but showing up at her house once a year to be whiny and make everyone uncomfortable is no way to go through life.

Also, pretty much every cop who works closely with him ends up dead or with their career in tatters. I can see the department letting the corruption and brutality slide, but at some point you'd think they'd get rid of him out of sheer self-preservation.

Yes, but my point is that even in 1901 New York, I don't think that killing your patient would be something you could expect to skate on just because that patient was black. It's possible that I'm being naive, though.

Eh. As Luisa says, no matter what happens to him, he finds reasons to blame someone else for it and react in the most destructive way possible (and to be clear, burning down someone else's house isn't self-destructive in any way). A man who can listen to his girlfriend tell the story about how she lost the ability…

"Don't foul the water source" has been conventional wisdom since prehistory. The people dumping gasoline into local water source know that they're destroying the local water supply. They just don't care.

To me, the format break reveals - or rather, clarifies - that the writers never really had a real grasp on the dual perspective format to begin with, and never really knew what they wanted to do with it. It was a gimmick, nothing more.