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“How many people have to die before you don’t care anymore?” Eric Green asks his brother, Jake, in the first five minutes of this episode of Jericho. And it’s a question that, arguably, defines the rest of the story that unfolds this particular week.
Read the rest of this entry »Happy weekend, everyone! I am ESPECIALLY happy this particular Saturday, because I get to share with you this extremely exciting news – my new book is coming out in just a few days’ time!
Read the rest of this entry »A woman is dead.
Read the rest of this entry »Welcome back, Jerichodes! Yes, I did spend the last three months coming up with that fandom name, and that’s why I’ve been absent for so long. Or maybe I was reviewing The Stand or something, and didn’t want such a garbage post-apocalyptic-show-with-a-nuclear-bomb-as-a-thematic-centrepiece to get in the way of this one. Something like that.
Read the rest of this entry »When watching the vastly improved second season of The X-Files revival, it is clear to see the one thing holding it back: Chris Carter. I’ve been criticising the showrunner of one of my favourite works of fiction ever for a long time now; although this is the blog in which Louise continually smashed Steven Moffat when he was running Doctor Who into oblivion, I’m coming for that dunking-on-showrunners crown. Looking at these two revival seasons of the show, not to mention the last proper series and the lousy movie in between – all of the crap stuff was written solely by Carter. The My Struggle episodes are a special kind of awful that only Carter could create, and the same can be said for his one Monster of the Week episode this season, and my last worst-of for this series: Plus One.
Read the rest of this entry »When this episode, the last in The Stand miniseries, opened with a voiceover via Frannie (Odessa Young), telling us that stories usually never end, they just go on in different ways – it downright felt like a threat. Please, please, let this story be over. I’m begging you. I need this.
Read the rest of this entry »I’ve been sitting in front of this blank document for at least twenty minutes, and I still don’t know what the hell to say. Let’s do this holistically, alright? Let’s riff, let’s roll, let’s just let the connections form and see what we come up with. First things first: I hate it.
Read the rest of this entry »From a strictly monster-of-the-week perspective, season eleven of The X-Files is miraculous.
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The Cutprice Guignol 