4.0 The Leftovers 2.04 “Orange Sticker” Shawn Hill November 1, 2015 Reviews, TV The pace doesn’t let up, as we circle back to Jarden, TX for this week's The Leftovers.
3.5 The Vampire Diaries 7.03 “Age of Innocence” Shawn Hill October 28, 2015 Reviews, TV In the pattern for Vampire Diaries, things usually start kicking into gear for the season around the third episode or so.
4.0 The Leftovers 2.03 “Off Ramp” Shawn Hill October 25, 2015 Reviews, TV This week we get the third point of view on the events that set the stage for this season of The Leftovers.
3.0 The Vampire Diaries 7.02 “Never Let Me Go” Shawn Hill October 22, 2015 Reviews, TV Second week of the Heretics Era Vampire Diaries, and it’s a Torture Caroline marathon!
4.0 The Leftovers 2.02 “A Matter of Geography” Shawn Hill October 18, 2015 Reviews, TV This is a mirror image of the first episode of The Leftovers.
2.5 The Vampire Diaries 7.01 “Day One of 22,000, Give or Take” Shawn Hill October 15, 2015 Reviews, TV Well, this episode of Vampire Diaries is kind of a mess, but you can't say of the producers that they've lost their charm.
4.0 The Leftovers 2.01 “Axis Mundi” Shawn Hill October 10, 2015 Reviews, TV In The Leftovers, things are just as screwed up in Texas as they were up north, just in different and peculiar ways.
2.8 Extant 2.12 “Double Vision” & 2.13 “The Greater Good” Shawn Hill September 24, 2015 Reviews, TV Extant ends nearly as expected, by playing three sci-fi apocalypses off each other in occasionally interesting ways.
3.0 Extant 2.11 “Zugzwang” Shawn Hill September 15, 2015 Reviews, TV Let's just call this one B-movie bliss. It's not the smartest sci-fi TV show we've ever seen, but it's also not the dumbest.
4.0 Extant 2.10 “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” Shawn Hill September 2, 2015 Reviews, TV Wait, what just happened? Did Extant, with only 4 episodes to go in season 2 suddenly get good?
3.0 Extant 2.09 “The Other Side” Shawn Hill August 26, 2015 Reviews, TV They just need a crisper through line and some more inventive combinations to really get off the ground.
3.0 Extant 2.08 “Arms and the Humanich” Shawn Hill August 25, 2015 Reviews, TV We rise back to average for this episode of Extant, that seems almost like a deck-clearing exercise.
2.7 Extant 2.05, 2.06 & 2.07 Shawn Hill August 12, 2015 Reviews, TV Extant is as inconsistent in its second season as it was in its first. Figuring out what it wants to be seems to be as evolving a theme as is the in-story development of the aliens. They’re now a tribe of...
2.3 Extant 2.03 “Empathy for the Devil” & 2.04 “Cracking the Code” Shawn Hill August 5, 2015 Reviews, TV Extant is kind of the definition of wild swings in quality from episode to episode.
3.0 Wayward Pines 1.10 “Cycle” Shawn Hill July 29, 2015 Reviews, TV Wayward Pines ends as it began, an artfully frustrating mix of noir, small-town paranoia, conspiracy theory and post-apocalyptic nightmare.
4.0 Wayward Pines 1.09 “A Reckoning” Shawn Hill July 22, 2015 Reviews, TV One more episode to make or break this tale, and my request is only this Wayward Pines: whether or not the show is renewed, be creative.
3.0 Wayward Pines 1.08 “The Friendliest Place on Earth” Shawn Hill July 15, 2015 Reviews, TV He’s mostly the man behind the scenes, while his sister is the agent on the ground in Wayward Pines.
2.0 Extant 2.02 “Morphoses” Shawn Hill July 14, 2015 Reviews, TV The new direction of Extant falls immediately into formula and doesn't quite keep the interest it might with more unconventional plotting.
2.5 Wayward Pines 1.07 “Betrayal” Shawn Hill July 9, 2015 Reviews, TV Wayward Pines is apparently desperate for as many unwed mothers as possible.
3.0 Extant 2.01 “Change Scenario” Shawn Hill July 6, 2015 Reviews, TV I mean, for an aliens-violating-our-women scenario, Extant had a lot of fresh twists.