Lost S1E22: Born to Run
Dammit, Lost might just be going out on a high.
The Cutprice Guignol
The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House
July 22, 2020
The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: First Person Shooter
To paraphrase Jane Austen (this is off to a good start), it is a truth universally known that, when genre shows create stories based around technology, these episodes will start to look dated immediately.
July 21, 2020
A Bountiful Bound Through Brilliant Body Horror Movies
You know when you look in the mirror and think “shit, I should write something about body horror!”
July 20, 2020
The Very Best and the Very Worst of Every Doctor’s Run on Doctor Who
You know, my deliciously brilliant co-writer has been doing a series on this blog about the very best and the very worst of Monster of the Week episodes of his beloved The X-Files. And it’s gotten me thinking about my own favourite shows, especially those with a similar format – science-fiction, horror, one-off monsters….
July 18, 2020
Lost S1E21: The Greater Good
Lost, for the most part, so far, has been about secrets.
July 15, 2020
The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: Hungry
Season seven of The X-Files is the last of the original run to feature both Mulder and Scully as the main protagonists. A combination of David Duchovny’s fatigue with the role of Mulder, and the fact that he was suing the network for unpaid royalties, meant that he would spend season eight in the margins of the show before leaving for good at the beginning of season nine, only to appear for the last episode. It’s fitting, then, that for my favourite season seven monster of the week I chose an episode in which Mulder and Scully barely appear at all. After the break of season six’s Triangle, I’m back to being Vince Gilligan’s hype man: let’s talk about Hungry.
July 14, 2020
The Most Iconic Horror Villains, Ranked
In which I dunk on Jason Voorhees, for good reason.
July 11, 2020
Lost S1E20: Do No Harm
You know, I dunked a lot on Jack at the start of this season.
July 10, 2020
I Watched Grease for the First Time
I just love this article a lot
July 9, 2020
The X-Files and the Monsters of That Week: Alpha
Throughout this series of articles, it has been quite easy picking the worst of what The X-Files has to offer, and season six is no different. Going through the episode list, past the many classics and the many just-good-enough episodes, there is one that takes the prize above all else: the killer dog debacle that is Alpha. And I’m not just saying that because my little dog-hating cat has a claw to my throat.
