Beyond the Rhetoric

Is it just me, or is Vancouver just a major hub for science fiction? This week, I’m profiling yet another science fiction show: Stargate SG1. I’ll admit it – I didn’t watch this show from beginning to end, but I did watch the movie and I actually really liked it. You gotta admit, the whole [...]

Doo dooo dee doooo dee doooooo. Okay, I’ll stop humming the X-Files theme song. I know it’s stuck in your head now! This week, we’re going retro. We’re going back to the original Fringe. The original Supernatural. The one and only… The X-Files.  The X-Files originally aired back in 1993. Now, it’s not the oldest TV show [...]

Once upon a DC comic, there was a costumed fighter-slash-vigilante named Green Arrow. Fast forward to 2012 and CW’s picked up a new show called Arrow… based on the DC comic. Now, I never read the comics so I don’t know who all the characters are. Having said that, there are no spoilers here… and [...]

AMC has some of the best TV shows on air right now. Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Walking Dead… These guys truly know how to produce amazing TV shows that tell more than just a story. So, it wasn’t really a surprise when they started a re-telling of the original Danish TV show The Killing. The [...]

When I first heard about Once Upon a Time, I wasn’t 100% sold on the concept. I mean, a TV show based on a re-telling of well known and well loved fairy tales… I wasn’t sure it’d succeed, much less if I’d like it. But since Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin and Robert Carlyle were cast [...]