HST’s Best of 2011: Television
With so much of my (Lauren's) personality constructed by Television, from PBS shows of my childhood to everything Joss Whedon that influenced my sense of humor and sarcasm, it’s no surprise that every year I get pretty excited for the pilots making their attempt to gain viewers. Not only that, but sometimes I go crazy fanatic for those shows I →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 2.6: Secrets
The Walking Dead bides time after its big reveal in the barn by tying up some lingering plot lines before the mid season finale next week. The beginning of the episode gets off on the wrong foot as Glenn is forced to keep secrets for both Lori (which is understandable) and Maggie (which is ridiculous) as he must keep the baby →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 2.5: Chupacabra
Daryl gets an episode almost all to himself and goes through hell, somehow making it out on the other side. Sophia is still missing and the group as a whole can now make a search of the surrounding area, but no one gets really anywhere. Shane and Rick show us how strong their friendship can be and how long it has →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 2.4: Cherokee Rose
The Walking Dead is really solid again this week, even with little zombie drama and the plot continuing to go nowhere. The fact the show is able to stay so entertaining this season while moving the plot almost no where is a testament to the huge step forward the show has taken from its season one downward spiral. The show had →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 2.3: Save The Last One
The Walking Dead continues its upward movement of constantly improving as the season progresses, with this episode centering around Shane's character for the most part. To put it simply, he sees some shit and flirts with the dark side to save Carl's life. We last left our group in the same places they have been most of the season, divided either →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 2.2: Bloodletting
The Walking Dead's second episode of its sophomore season is a step up from the premiere and is setting up quite the confrontation next week. We last left the gang with Carl getting accidentally shot by a mystery hunter and we smash cut to Rick carrying his lifeless son through a field, heading for the farmhouse of the shooter. Well, the opening →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 2.1: What Lies Ahead
The Walking Dead has returned for season 2 and the results are just fine and hopefully setting the show in the right direction. Our survivors are on the road again and, after an atrociously ADR'd catch up from Rick on an Atlanta rooftop; they are leaving the city life for a military base quite a ways from their temporary home. Along →
TV Review: The Walking Dead: 1.5: Wildfire & 1.6: TS-19
The first season has ended for the Walking Dead and while I enjoyed it I hope that the second season allows them to flesh things out and learn from the mistakes. I won’t bother recapping blow for blow two episodes here, but to be quite honest, not a lot happened in the last two episodes. The group gathered themselves, buried the →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.4: Vatos
Vatos, The Walking Dead’s fourth episode, sees the return of zombie action and a large chunk of the cast won’t be back for week 5. The Atlanta plot line didn’t really move that much forward this week other than the discovery of a new batch of survivors in a nursing home being protected by a batch of Latino gang-bangers. The story →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.3 Tell It To The Frogs
The third entry into the series is the least zombie filled episode yet, and while that was a tad disappointing, focusing on the humans was almost just as engaging and compelling as the rest of the series. Thankfully we find out, and maybe this was expressed last week and I just missed it, that the fact that all of these people →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.2: Guts
“Guts” is the second episode in this first season of The Walking Dead and the intensity and creativity of the series is still in full swing. Again the episode primarily focuses on Rick and his adventures in Atlanta and how the hell he gets out of that tank we left him in. Surprisingly the solution wasn’t that creative, he runs, and →
TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.1: Days Gone Bye
The Walking Dead premiered this Halloween on AMC and is another great step forward for the network and TV in general. The pilot introduces us to the tip of the iceberg of this world and oh what a world it may be. Having never read the graphic novel series I might be inclined to pick it up after this brief introduction →
Suggestion Box (Aug 23 – 29)
In this week's Suggestion Box we've got the movie trailer for 127 hours, a trailer for the new AMC TV show The Walking Dead, and a whole heap of video game videos from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Brink, Halo: Reach, James Bond 007: Blood Stone, and Portal 2. Movies: 127 Hours Trailer - Remember back in 2003 when news broke that a man →
