When the new version of V first showed up, I was surprisingly hopeful. Back when it was simply a theory, I had little interest in a reboot of the camp alien drama, especially since reworking anything that Marc Singer has been a part of is pure folly. Like many of our recent trips back to the '80s, there is too serious an air at work here, but the first few episodes were actually rather … [Read more...]
You may have noticed that it's been quite a while since this "weekly" has been updated. There's just been too much to do. There's a lot of cool stuff though, so I'm just going to start throwing stuff at you. In case you missed the Gemini Awards, I was very pleased to see that Being Erica star Erin Karpluk picked up the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic … [Read more...]
There's something decidedly odd about all the rebooting going on these days, and when a show has a "gag," we're in even stranger territory. What's odd about the whole deal, especially recently, is that there are so many television shows getting one reworking or another that decide against camp. In a kind of mirror effort to the reworking of Battlestar Galactica, V is debuting tonight, and whether … [Read more...]
