One of the cannier decisions by V's producers was to cast not one, but two refugees from Joss Whedon's beloved, departed sci-fi series Firefly. You've got Morena Baccarin as V High Commander Anna, rocking the best short brunette haircut since Janine ...
Is there anything more exciting than a sci-fi reimagining? You get all the tingly nostalgia of a beloved show from your youth (Battlestar Galactica), but souped-up with slick effects, superior acting, and all-grown-up allegorical resonances (Battlestar ...
I was not one of the 65 million or so people who watched the original V miniseries when it aired in 1983, and I’m still not sure why: After all, its Star Wars-meets-Invasion of the Body Snatchers-meets-Flash Gordon pitch was right in my ...
You think serial killers are bad? Kids are evil. Kids are deadly. Kids kill shows. There's a long-standing joke that the arrival of an adorable moppet reliably poisons a show. This even has a name: Cousin Oliver syndrome, coined by jump-the-sharkers in ...
This isn't how we remember So I Married an Axe Murderer at all.Photo: Courtesy of Showtime This is the way the season ends: not with a bang, but a wedding. Given that the climax of the season — the resolution of the Miguel Prada story line — happened ...
Is it considered a spoiler if you reveal a plot detail that everyone saw coming for weeks and weeks? If so, um, spoiler alert, because DEXTER KILLS MIGUEL. And with that, season three comes to a close. Wait? What? There’s still one episode? That’s ...
Can you see the acting?Photo: Courtesy of Showtime We can't say we're loving this season, what with its predictable plotlines (this week Dexter finally concludes that he has to kill Miguel, an outcome which seemed obvious from the second time they met), ...
This season has been all about Dexter's crash course in parenting. First, he learned he's going to be a dad. This week, Miguel emerged as his full-blown sulky wayward teenage son. "I'm a big boy!" Miguel protests, when Dexter confronts him over killing ...
When black people dance, they dance like this. But when white people dance, they dance like this. You have now essentially experienced every episode of "The Arsenio Hall Show." You have also now essentially read the entirety of Stuff White People Like, ...
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