Category Archives: Television
6 Thoughts on the Third Season of Arrow
The third season of Arrow came to a dramatic conclusion last week, with Oliver Queen making some pretty major decisions about his life. Season 3 has been a rocky one, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. Arrow is still one of my favorite shows on television and you better believe I can’t wait to watch DC’s TV universe get bigger and better.
So much smoldering sexiness!
I’m no good at reviewing TV shows, especially episode-to-episode. So when a season of one of my favorite superhero TV shows is over, I like to do a roundup like this. You can check out my lists for the first and second seasons of Arrow. As for the third season, like I said, I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t as good as the previous season. Could it be because the creative team was split up in order to make The Flash? Who knows!
Join me after the jump to see my thoughts on the third season of Arrow. And feel free to share your own review in the comments below.
Legends of Tomorrow: And Just Like That, Nothing is Ever the Same Again
One day after the Supergirl trailer hits, we’ve got our first full look at Legends of Tomorrow, the oddly not-named Justice League show spinning out of Arrow and The Flash. This is a real trailer, more than three minutes long, showing everybody in action against the forces of Vandal Savage.
I don’t think television is ever going to be the same again.
I mean, come on! This is a full-on superhero team TV show, featuring time travel, the Atom, resurrections, big fights, Firestorm; this is insane, right? This can’t really be happening? This can’t really be a real TV show that we all get to watch and enjoy?
Granted, it looks cheesy as hell, but they’re making cheesy work on The Flash. I don’t see any reason why this can’t be as amazing as we all want it to be. I even have some ideas!
Though I still want to know how they justify not having the Flash or Green Arrow on the team.
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Supergirl Trailer Hits All the Girl Cliches, But I Still Kinda Like It
CBS is definitely going ahead with a Supergirl TV show, and the first trailer hit the Internet last night. It’s a full six minutes long, so it’s packed to the gills with pretty much everything the show is going to have. Heck, it’s practically an entire episode in and of itself. Go ahead and watch!
The problem is that it looks like nothing but a ‘girly TV show’ cliche! The fine people at io9 sum it up very well. I can definitely see those cliches, but I still liked the trailer in spite of them. In fact, as soon as Supergirl starts using her powers and being heroic, the trailer looks pretty great. It felt really cool watching a female superhero take the lead in an amazing way, for once. Arrow and The Flash have their special effects, but here’s Supergirl catching an airplane! Here’s Supergirl letting bullets bounce off of her as she fights the bad guys. Here’s Supergirl having the fun, real world problems like finding a costume that looks good and a cape that doesn’t get destroyed.
And actress Melissa Benoist looks really good in the role!
Maybe the cliches are just part of the pilot, like the people making the show knew they needed to appeal to the moronic studio executives, so they delivered an easy to swallow pilot. Pilots are not the be-all, end-all of a TV show. I think this one definitely has a chance.
What’d you think? Let me know in the comments!
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The Muppets Are Coming Back to TV!
Apparently the world knew this was a thing long before I did, but I just saw the first trailer this morning and it’s actually pretty funny.
This could be a really good show! I mean, I’ll always believe in the Muppets. There are few things I like more than when people collectively decide to treat fictional characters as real, like Kermit or Chewbacca. You do not break the Fourth Wall with Kermit the Frog, you just do not, I don’t care who you are.
I can still remember watching reruns of the original Mupper Show in syndication when I was a kid. And I was definitely a Muppet Babies kid, that’s for darn sure. So hey, maybe this will be a neat show!
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6 Characters I Can Blame For the Common Cold
Ugh. Is there any worse feeling than trying to shake the last days of a cold? Probably, but for me right now, there definitely isn’t. I’ve been battling this bug for days now and I just want my nose to work properly again! Is that too much to ask?!
Help me, monster!
At any rate, as with all things that crop up in a given week, I’ve decided to turn my cold into a List of Six! So I scoured the world of pop culture to find six characters, good and bad, who revel in disease and infection. It’s not going to be pretty. You might want to have a box of tissues handy before joining me after the jump!
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