Category: nerdTV
nerdTV: Saturated with Superheroes
Arrow is back! I’m very excited. I’ve been missing my weekly dose of absolute stupidity. This show is Ridiculous. Capital ‘R’. We last saw Oliver dead at the hands of our svelte, Tv-verse, Liam Neeson-Lite Ra’s al Ghul. To the...
Read MoreNerdTV on Person of Interest: ‘Mildly embarrassed defensiveness, bordering on hostility’
Person of Interest has now strayed so far from it’s original episodic procedural formula that it’s nigh-on unrecognisable, and I couldn’t be happier about it – this show is filmic in ways other’s aren’t even coming close to. I’m...
Read MorenerdTV: What would it look like if the CW re-made Battlestar Galactica?
If that’s something you’ve ever found yourself wondering, you’ve now got your answer in The 100 (Season 1, Episode 1). This show screams CW, from the premise, its casting, through to the money you can see on the screen. It’s...
Read MorenerdTV: Agent Carter – ‘Lady things’
It pains me in ways I can not even begin to describe, but I must start this weeks missive with the issuing of my own heartfelt apologies. Thanks to some fat-head at central dispatch, my preview reels didn’t make it to the parcel...
Read MorenerdTV: ‘The Global Frequency is real’
Well, at least for one episode. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be looking at some recent (and not-so-recent) series’ pilots – some successful, some less so. Kicking off with the 2005 Warner Brother’s Global Frequency pilot....
Read MoreNerdTV: ‘Being good means nothing, unless you’re willing to do what needs to be done…’
With the current crop of comic based shows on winter hiatus, I’m taking the opportunity to catch up on Guillermo del Toro’s vampires-meet-contagion series The Strain. Del Toro brings plenty of NerdTV cred to the table, having...
Read MorenerdTV: ‘I know I’m a terrible disappointment, but I’m here now…’
That’s Dr Zabo, aka Mr Hyde (well played by Kyle MacLachlan) talking to his daughter Daisy (the erstwhile Skye) about their relationship in the latest Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (Season 2, Episode 10). Though you’d be forgiven...
Read MorenerdTV: “We Used to Have a Tight Horn Section Back in the Day”
[EDITOR’S NOTE — Give a warm, THN welcome to the latest Love Slave, Jim Stafford, as he takes over the long lost nerdTV feature! BEWARE: There be SPOILERS ahead!] The ‘everything’s fine, oh, no, wait, everything’s...
Read MorenerdTV: Black Sails Season 1 Review
With Spartacus behind them, Starz needed a new show, preferably a fantasy type, for the winter season. Enter Black Sails, eschewing sword and sandals for swords and sails. The show carves its outline from the book Treasure...
Read MorenerdTV: Black Sails
When Spartacus ended on Starz last year, I was sad thinking that I wouldn’t have a strong period piece/epic to kick of my new year, especially considering the somber note it ended on. Fast forward to New York City...
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