Beyond the Rhetoric

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 [...]

Continuing on the sci-fi trend, I’ve gotta say that Fringe is one of my favourite science fiction TV shows on air right now. They’ve taken this show to many different places and while the first season wasn’t filmed in Vancouver, seasons 2 through 5 were. If you’re familiar with J.J. Abrams’ previous work (like Alias, [...]