After the sudden death of her husband, Nancy Botwin has spent five seasons masking each problem in her life with an even bigger problem. Weeds has never shied away from writing Nancy into a corner and then embracing whatever crazy measure she has to take to escape. Whether that be dealing weed, marrying a DEA agent, burning her town to the ground, smuggling drugs across the Mexican border, marrying a Mexican drug lord or putting a hit out on his boss all in the name of her family. Weeds is …

Acquired by NBC after all thirteen episodes of the show were produced, Persons Unknown is an international coproduction from Fox and Usual Suspects writer Christopher McQuarrie. Like Lost and various other shows in the last few years, Persons Unknown brings together a group of disparate individuals with seemingly no connection. There’s the single mother going through a divorce, a US marine, a car salesman… you get the picture. Each one is kidnapped and wakes up in a hotel room in an abandoned town surrounded by nothing but mountains. The characters …

Going to the movies this week? Bet you’re gonna go see Iron Man 2. Yes? No? Yes. Good. There’s a fair chance you’ll enjoy it. The special effects are great, the plot moves at a fast pace, the dialogue crackles, the villain is menacing and Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as Tony Stark is perfect.
All the good things you’ve heard about this film are true. It’s a good superhero film.
So why does it feel like this review is going to be negative?
What Iron Man 2 represents is your standard, lazy superhero …

”There’s no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you.”
In The Truman Show, Jim Carrey’s character discovers that every second of his life has been filmed and broadcast live to millions. While this may sound like the starting point of a bleak dystopian drama, the film takes a more interesting direction by showing the many advantages of Truman’s life over our own existences. Although he’s suffered the stage-managed ‘death’ of his father and the sinister vanishing of a woman he loved, the show’s creator …

I never used to watch a lot of television. It used to just be Buffy and Angel. Then in 2003, Buffy ended and Angel began winding down. At this time, hot off the heels of The Shield’s success, FX developed another original series: Nip/Tuck. I didn’t seek Nip/Tuck out. It was a marriage of convenience. Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica, House, Weeds, Dexter, The Inside and many others would eventually come along, but it was Nip/Tuck that provided my maiden voyage into a post-Buffy and Angel world.
Needless to say after the …

I’m going to preface this review by admitting that I have only read the first The Walking Dead trade paperback. I read it at the end of last year but resisted reading the second trade as all interviews indicated that the show would be quite faithful to the book. Having read the pilot script I am glad of this.

Frank Darabont’s pilot script, as you may have read elsewhere, is very true to the first few issues of Robert Kirkman’s comic. The episode opens and closes with the character of Rick …

For two seasons Damages did it. A complex show that spanned various timelines, had multiple characters, an intricate plot and a strong thematic through-line. For two seasons these elements were woven together, nary a glaring plot hole in sight.
Season three focused on Patty Hewes’s struggle to recover money from a Ponzi scheme perpetrated by the fractured Tobin family. For much of the season it looked like the third year would stand up there with Damages’s first two seasons. The dynamics of the Tobin family mirrored that of Patty’s makeshift professional …

As the fourth season of FOX’s seminal medical procedural drew to a close, House found himself lying in a hospital bed after playing an intricate part in Wilson’s girlfriend’s death.  As he lay unconscious, he came to the realization that he tired of being in pain and miserable.  He wanted to be happy.
It is from this jumping off point that season five began, exploring what it happiness means for House and addressing each of the subjects House highlighted in the season four finale.  As such, season five was split into …