THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part 1”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Originals”
As we noted yesterday in writing about The Good Wife, churning out 22 hours per season is a tough challenge for any serialized network drama, especially one that concentrates on one central story, unlike, say the multipl...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Originals”
THE ORIGINALS: Monday 8PM on CW THE ORIGINALS, that gloomier and more gothic cousin of The Vampire Diaries, essentially revolves around an endless turf war, the territory at issue being New Orleans. (The show itself ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Strain”
THE STRAIN: Sunday 10PM on FX Despite its contemporary NY setting, there’s an old-world charm to the horrors of THE STRAIN, with its silver bullets and sword-canes. They come courtesy of series godfather and co...
THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “The Strain”
THE STRAIN: Sunday 10PM on FX Previously… on THE STRAIN: A jet stops on the tarmac at JFK with–it appears–virtually all of its occupants mysteriously dead. Missing from the cargo hold: a huge, o...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “The Vampire Diaries”
Vampires may live forever, but TV shows don’t, and tonight the coffin closed on THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, the pre-superhero champion of the then-fledgling CW network when it debuted 8 years ago. In truth, the close of...
THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “The Strain”
THE STRAIN: Sunday 10PM on FX – Potential DVR Alert Although capable of finer things (notably his Oscar-winning Pan’s Labyrinth), the expert filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is one of those directors–you ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “What We Do In The Shadows”
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS: Wednesday 10PM on FX The deadpan vampire mockumentary cult hit WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS is the latest piece of IP to find eternal–or at least extended–life on the small screen. ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Breaking Dawn Part I”
THE TWILIGHT SAGA – BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Watch It At Home – The Saga Sags In Slow Prelude To The End The worldwide phenomenon that is Twilight often finds itself compared to Harry Potter, and...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Vampire Diaries”
Although it regrouped somewhat in its last few episodes, Season 7 of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES was mostly an awkward and ungainly one. Some readjustment was foreseeable after leading lady Nina Dobrev decided not to return, b...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Strain”
THE STRAIN: Sunday 10PM on FX FX’s goofiest drama, THE STRAIN, is back for its third season, long-tongued vampiric monsters and Eastern European mythology intact. Season 2 may have been less notable for killing...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Originals”
Season 4 of THE ORIGINALS had the chance to emerge from the shadow of its departing parent The Vampire Diaries–there was even a 5-year time jump to distance the two shows–but it didn’t really happen. ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Preacher”
PREACHER: Sunday 9PM on AMC – Potential DVR Alert It’s not quite clear what on earth AMC’s new PREACHER is after watching its pilot, but it’s certainly intriguing. Based on a celebrated comic ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Van Helsing”
VAN HELSING: Friday 10PM on Syfy – Change the Channel The playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute has dabbled in genre before, although he may prefer not to be reminded of his disastrous remake of The Wicker Man. ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Strain”
FX’s THE STRAIN is doing something that The Walking Dead and its cohorts in the undead genre won’t: telling a (more or less) coherent story from beginning to end, and exiting when it’s over. During ...