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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - The Dinner Party

A few thrilling parts soar, but not Stefan and Elena's relationship

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This review may contain spoilers. The week's episode certainly thrilled in parts, but the couple we should care about the most, Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Elena (Nina Dobrev), continue to bore.   Not even some less than thrilling flashbacks can save them from the depths of the mundane, and being ...

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Review'Being Human' - It's The End Of The World As We Knew It

Revelations and realizations are the key to this week's episode

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This review may contain spoilers. One of the benefits of Syfy's "Being Human" being a remake that's mostly followed the path of the original so far is no Valentine's Day episode on Valentine's Day. There's no need to be even more by-the-book in a remake. This week's episode, "It's the End of t ...

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Review'Supernatural' - Unforgiven

The road to redemption has more than a fair share of potholes

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This review may contain spoilers. This episode of "Supernatural" proves the old adage that "ignorance is bliss," as Sam (Jared Padelecki) begins to have residual memories creep into his consciousness. Responding to an anonymous text, Sam and Dean (Jensen Ackles) head to Rhode Island to investi ...

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Review'Being Human' - Wouldn't It Be Nice (If We Were Human)

Controlling your power isn't always a good thing

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This review may contain spoilers. Aside from being a hilarious episode title, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice (If We Were Human)” asked the supernatural roommates a question with a fairly simple answer. The answer was “yes,” by the way. Unfortunately for them though, they don’t have that l ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - Daddy Issues

In a battle between vampires and werewolves, you better choose the right side

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This review may contain spoilers. The last time daddy-dearest came to town, his intent was to eradicate all the vampires from Mystic Falls. This time it appears that John (David Anders) is only intent on killing one vampire, Elijah (Daniel Gilles) -- for it is the only way to set Katherine (Nina ...

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Review'Being Human' - Some Thing To Watch Over Me

The roommates join a neighborhood watch, even though they're the ones worth watching

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This review may contain spoilers. Another week of “Being Human” and another week of domestic monster problems. It also means another week of flashback-Aidan (Sam Witwer) -– this time, looking very dapper in a John Wilkes Booth (or James Marsden as John Wilkes Booth in “Zoolander”) sort ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - The Descent

Falling into the abyss of death and despair has never hurt so bad

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This article may contain spoilers. Damon (Ian Somerhalder), Damon, what have you done? Fear and loneliness may drive a vampire into the arms of a willing embrace; but anger, frustration and pain only drives a vampire to thirst for blood. Literally. The five stages of grief have nothing on vamp ...

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Review'Being Human' - There Goes The Neighborhood, Part 2

It's all about understanding, isn't it?

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This review may contain spoilers. The second part of the "Being Human" premiere, "There Goes The Neighborhood," continued where it left off at the end of last week's episode and began the "real" series, post-pilot setup and exposition. With part two, we got a bit of a glimpse into our three p ...

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Review'Being Human' - There Goes The Neighborhood, Part 1

A vampire, a werewolf and a ghost live together in a house. What's the punchline?

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This review may contain spoilers. "We just want the same things that you do. A chance at life. At love. We're not so different, in that way." What happens when a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost stop being polite and start getting real? You get what, on paper, sounds like the setup for an awful ...

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ReviewPreview: 'Being Human' Different From 'Being Human'

Michael Hinman takes a spoiler-light look at Syfy's latest venture

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This review may contain some spoilers for the series premiere of "Being Human" on Syfy. For many fans, it will be impossible to separate the BBC version of "Being Human" with the Syfy version, which premieres Jan. 17. So before I started passing judgment on the American remake of the popular ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - By The Light Of The Moon

Some curses are simply not meant to be broken

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There was a full moon hanging over the night sky in Mystic Falls and lots of lives hung in the balance. It was Tyler's (Michael Trevino) first transformation, and Caroline (Candice Accola) had fool-heartedly volunteered to accompany him so that he did not transition alone -- like she did. It was als ...

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Review'The Vampire Diaries' - The Sacrifice

The best laid plans go awry, and half-baked plans go completely to hell

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The Gilbert siblings jumped right into the fire with their plans to save everyone they loved. Elena (Nina Dobrev) enlisted Rose (Lauren Cohan) to offer herself up as the sacrifice so that Klaus would spare everyone she loved, and Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) threw himself into Katherine's (Nina Dobrev ...

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Review'Supernatural' - Clap Your Hands If You Believe

This bizarre 'X-Files' tribute, or spoof, hits the mark

Finally, after six seasons, Supernatural has blatantly acknowledged its similarities to the long running series The X-Files. Both shows feature a pair of characters investigating paranormal events and hunting strange monsters. Both shows even feature Mitch Pileggi in a supporting role. The one big d ...

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Review'Supernatural' - All Dogs Go To Heaven

This episode goes to the dogs -- literally

One week after the revelation that Sam (Jared Padelecki) is missing his soul, their grandfather sold them out, and that they were now indentured servants to the demon Crowley (Mark Sheppard), Supernatural" served up a typical monster of the week episode that could be seen as little more than mid-sea ...

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Review'The Walking Dead' - Guts; Tell It To The Frogs

Rick Grimes faces nightmarish choices in Episodes 2 and 3 of AMC's hit zombies series

Coping with a world overrun by the undead can be a tantalizing litmus test. No society. No rules. Old lives are stripped away to a basic instinct -- survival. At the conclusion of the pilot "Days Gone Bye," Rick Grimes' (Andrew Lincoln) journey into Atlanta ended in disaster. His horse was reduc ...

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