It's still weird that they just keep throwing all those cults into the narrative, like there's gonna be an epic death cult team deathmatch elimination tournament in the season's climax, which would amount to a whole extravaganza of twenty minutes of lame footchases and non-stop stabbing. Which would be kinda cool, I…

Curiously enough, my significant other brought up 24. But this show had a serious advantage, in that it had nearly double the lenght of a season of "The Following". Admittedly, this also turned out to be a huge problem for the show, but at least for nearly about four seasons, they were able to mix up the plotting…

Number of unrelated congregations of murderous maniacs (UCROMM): That blonde lady's group of all the twins and rosetta's stone promoting polyglotts, Joe's foster uncle and his school of the fine arts of lady-torturing, that camping-clothes sporting lunatics death cult ("Oh gee golly, I s'pose we stumbled upon an Koch…

As the scene was happening on the television, my girlfriend and I almost synchronously lauded how great the writers handled this whole thing.

I'm just gonna say, right at the end of the episode, after the final fade-to-black, I was 99% sure it would be followed by the "Good at bizness, haha"-slogan of a "pro krollduction".

Yeah, in Enlisted he comes across very self-assure and amusingly arrogant/distanced, while in VM he pretty much just played some outdoors-activity prone character from a yoghurt commercial. "Not a plum role it was."

Piz is actually a really enjoyable character in that show. The military theme and inherent tendency towards pathos (even if undercut by comedy) makes it, for me at least, always a bit iffy and difficult to enjoy. Sort of a "Have your cake and eat it, too"-thing in regards to that stuff. But the acting is great, it's…

Impoverished sitcom child stars in knife fights against gorillas/each other.

So Fox is basically going ahead and saying outright "We are so glad that this is your new Dexter. Enjoy it, you animals!"
I'm sure, somewhere in England, the long lost brother of the actor who plays Joe Carrol silently crushes his glass of scotch in repressed anger.

This is what always kept me from watching and enjoying Stromberg - the fact that Pro7 bought the series from Husmann, believing it was their original intellectual property. Now, how they thought of this, The Office (UK, that is) at that time already being quite famous, is a whole other story of either deliberate…

I saw the grade and watched the episode before I read the review, and expected the review to complain about the show not being as extraordinary as everyone (supposedly) seemd to expect the show to be. I've never expected "True Detective" to reinvent the crime fiction genre, and was served with an aesthetically…

This is some terrible news.

I have always struggled to get into an "actor's perspective" just by simply viewing the finished work, but this show made me aware why actors frequently, especially if no one is actively working with them, instructing them on their material, ask "What's my character thinking right now? What's my motivation?"

Nah, besides Swearengen, we'll always have "Hello, whore!" and, of course, "Classic Poe". I've had the most fun with this episode imagining how James Purefoy might have felt if he saw himself in the mirror with that dump swinger party mask all up in his white jammys. "They sure pay me handsomely!"

The Followed becomes the Follower.
The Followers become the Followers.
The Follower becomes the Followed.

I once interned as a copy editor for six months at a german production company and a TV station, and sometimes it took me more than three days to go through a whole, 90-100 pages script, and even if I was able to squeeze out some good thorough reviews, my biggest challenge was to hold back all the hatred and vitriol I…

Tja, die Welt ist klein! :-)

Hah, I am from Germany, so hi, neighbour! :-) But yeah, all sympathies to Sims. I work as a media critic myself (Video game reviews for german TV), and sometimes the best kind of entertainment feels like punishment when you HAVE to engage with it, so you can pay your bloody rent. The Following especially, airing on…

I think, realistically, the C-spectrum is about as good as this show will get from here on out. I could only imagine "ironic" grades above C being given - I mean, what could possibly turn this show around, except Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos entering the show as a new set of killer twins the blonde billionaire…

Oh, I think a whole, quite long post was swallowed by disqus. Aw, heck. There is a VICE Magazine documentary out there that I linked directly, maybe there's a content filter, but (Yeah, yeah, I know VICE is sensasionalistic and superficial and all that) just search for their name and "Nigerian email scammers", they…