I had a warm, fuzzy flashback this morning. One of my favorite TV shows as a kid was the Captain Kangaroo children’s show – with the Captain, Mr. Green Jeans, Dancing Bear, Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, the cartoons, all the fun stuff. Another one of my favorite TV shows as a kid was Mr. Rogers’…
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Blood Drive 1.03: “Steel City Nightfall” episode review
When we last left our intrepid road racers Arthur and Grace, they were racing to Utah with the rest of the Blood Drive teams. Arthur continued to gather information about the Blood Drive and the participants, while Grace stayed hyper-focused on winning the race to rescue her sister Karma from the mental institution. Yep, it’s…
Read MoreBlood Drive Episode review 1.02: “Welcome to Pixie Swallow”
Part of me really loves trashy, so-bad-it’s-good television. Heck, that’s why I did those Amish Mafia episode reviews years ago. And now that I’ve found a new television series – Blood Drive – that’s so far over the top it lands in the next county – I’m hooked. Not only does the show – a…
Read MoreBlood Drive on Syfy – what the hell did I just watch, and can I see more please?
About ten years ago, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez collaborated on a double-feature film called Grindhouse, where they created two separate exploitation-homage movies – Planet Terror and Death Proof – along with various trailers for films like Werewolf Women of the S.S., Hobo with a Shotgun, and Machete – and released it in theaters. You…
Read MoreReflections on Adam West
Last night, I heard the awful news that actor Adam West passed away at the age of 88. He led a fll and long life, and whether he was typecast in one specific role or not, and although he eventually grew to appreciate and embrace that one role – he will always be, to a…
Read MoreCan The Orville break the U.S. sci-fi comedy TV curse?
Among the many television shows scheduled for the upcoming 2017-18 prime time television season is a brand new program from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. No, it’s not another animated series like The Cleveland Show or American Dad! Instead, it’s a science fiction comedy spoof series. In this new FOX TV series, MacFarlane is the…
Read MoreSo “Timeless” wasn’t cancelled by NBC after all??
Last year, most of the major television networks bombarded us with time travel programs – whether it involved reboots of time travel movies as series (ABC’s Time After Time, the CW’s Frequency), comedy time travel shows (Fox’s Making History) or whole new programs (NBC’s Timeless). And one by one, each show debuted – garnered miserable…
Read MoreThe last, sad, remaining Amish Mafia story
For three years, I had fun reviewing the godawful trashy reality show Amish Mafia, the program that purported to reveal the secret society within a secret society – the crew of enforcers and thugs and gangsters among the Plain Folk of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I had a lot of fun reviewing and snarking on those…
Read MoreMST3K and Reptilicus: AAAH WE’VE GOT MOVIE SIGN AGAIN!!!!
Okay, Netflix, here’s one of the reasons I subscribed to you. Call up the search function. Spell it out with the remote on my Apple TV … “M… Y… S…” Okay, I’ve got The Mysteries of Laura, and – oh wait, here it is. Mystery Science Theater 3000, 2017 Edition. Add this to my “saved”…
Read MoreFeud: Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in the 1960’s
If you’ve been enjoying the FX miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan as much as I have, you know that these two scions of Hollywood acting royalty not only hated each other, but they also hated the situation they were placed in – limited roles for aging actresses and a studio system that treated them as…
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