last night’s ‘Heroes,’ scene by scene

This is a new thing I’ll be doing over at Film.com: offering a snarky rundown of the highlights of every episode of Heroes. This week’s is here. Commenting at Film.com is now open, but you can only post one comment per thread. So if you really wanna discuss this episode, feel free to do so … more…

‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Small Worlds”

It’s funny, but as much as I really like ‘Torchwood,’ rewatching it is not quite as much fun as rewatching ‘Doctor Who.’ I never get tired of ‘Doctor Who,’ and I constantly find new stuff to hash over in those episodes — these, not so much. They’re fun, and I’m certainly not saying that I dislike the show, but it’s not as rich in material as ‘Who’ is.

‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Sound of Drums”

“The Master is Prime Minister of Great Britain… the Master and his wife?” Lucy is such a wonderful conundrum. She clearly knows her husband is up to a whole bunch of No Good, and is cool with that, but does she know the real deal with him? Does she know he’s an alien? Or does she lie in bed with him at night and wonder about that strange echo in his heartbeat?

previewing CBS’s ‘Moonlight’

There’s a lot of genre stuff on TV this fall, and what would genre TV be without a gloomy, angst-ridden vampire private detective? We don’t have to ponder that this season, because there’s Moonlight, debuting tomorrow night on CBS at 9pm Eastern. It woulda been pretty darn funny if this was like Moonlighting with bloodsuckers … more…

‘Heroes’ returns!

Is it just me, or was there maybe too much stuff jammed into the Season 2 debut of Heroes (kinda like there’s way too much stuff jammed onto NBC’s official Heroes Web site)? I feel a little dizzy, and a wee bit like I’m afraid there’s gonna be a lot of cheating going on with … more…

‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Ghost Machine”

I’m nearly done watching all of the first season of ‘Torchwood’ — just one more episode to go — and when I look back at this episode, it feels to me like the show is still treading water here while it tries to figure out what it’s got on its hands. Compared to what’s to come later in the season, this is nothin’.