A Deep Dive into DARK FOREST (2015) Thom V. Young April 5, 2018 Movies, Reviews In Dark Forest, Boyer often has his characters sit around and tell stories to each other in scenes that come across as overly obvious attempts at creating verisimilitude.
12 Monkeys 2.13 “Memory of Tomorrow” Thom V. Young August 2, 2016 Reviews, TV On one level—the visceral level—this episode’s season finale was very satisfying for several reasons.
12 Monkeys 2.12 “Blood Washed Away” Thom V. Young July 18, 2016 Reviews, TV However, the series is not actually bad; it’s just not as good as it could (and should) be.
12 Monkeys 2.11 “Resurrection” Thom V. Young July 11, 2016 Reviews, TV I predict the final two episodes will have several shots of Cassie being posed for the camera in similar settings to accentuate Amanda Schull’s beauty.
12 Monkeys 2.10 “Fatherland” Thom V. Young July 4, 2016 Reviews, TV “Fatherland” was a suspenseful espionage episode set at the height of the Cold War era as the Berlin Wall is being built, and it is one of my favorite episodes of the series.
12 Monkeys 2.09 “Hyena” Thom V. Young June 27, 2016 Reviews, TV Overall, “Hyena” wasn’t a great episode of 12 Monkeys. In fact, it’s mostly forgettable.
12 Monkeys 2.08 “Lullaby” Thom V. Young June 20, 2016 Reviews, TV It’s interesting that this episode is about people living together in a “now” that is made more poignant because of what was, what is, and what may never be.
12 Monkeys 2.07 “Meltdown” Thom V. Young June 13, 2016 Reviews, TV The first season (1974) of the Saturday Morning children’s show Land of the Lost had time-traveling science that made more sense than 12 Monkeys makes at times.
12 Monkeys 2.06 “Immortal” Thom V. Young May 30, 2016 Reviews, TV Overall, this season of 12 Monkeys has not been scripted as well as the first season.
12 Monkeys 2.05 “Bodies of Water” Thom V. Young May 23, 2016 Reviews, TV The ability of this series to engage me in philosophical meditations is why I am not giving up on 12 Monkeys.
12 Monkeys 2.04 “Emergence” Thom V. Young May 16, 2016 Reviews, TV However, 12 Monkeys is now based on the concept that certain people known as “primaries” are Time Incarnate, which is why all of these primaries appear to be insane to those of us who are merely Flesh and Bone Incarnate.
12 Monkeys 2.03 “One Hundred Years” Thom V. Young May 9, 2016 Reviews, TV Intellectually, I understand the change in Cassie. Yet, emotionally, I want the old Cassie back.
House of Wax (2005) The Final Girl, Thom V. Young May 8, 2016 Innocence and Experience, Movies, Reviews House of Wax has all the makings of a great horror movie--ridiculous dialogue, awesome death scenes, and a killer soundtrack.
The Americans 4.05 “Clark’s Place” Thom V. Young May 3, 2016 Reviews, TV At least for now in The Americans, Philip-Clark knows his place.
12 Monkeys 2.02 “Primary” Thom V. Young May 2, 2016 Reviews, TV Based on this episode of 12 Monkeys, I doubt I’m going to like the new Cassie.
12 Monkeys 2.01 “Year of the Monkey” Thom V. Young April 25, 2016 Reviews, TV By the end of the episode, everything that seemed “wrong” at the end of the first season of 12 Monkeys had been re-set.
The Americans 4.04 “Chloramphenicol” Thom V. Young April 19, 2016 Reviews, TV Of course, because this is an episode of The Americans, the title has thematic connotations that extend to all of the other subplots in the episode through a unifying motif.
The Americans 4.03 “Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow” Thom V. Young April 9, 2016 Reviews, TV Obviously, one person’s Utopia can become another person’s Dystopia.
The Americans 4.02 “Pastor Tim” Thom V. Young March 30, 2016 Reviews, TV This episode of The Americans has walls coming down within the Jennings household.
The Americans 4.01 “Glanders” Thom V. Young March 27, 2016 Reviews, TV We essentially get a well-scripted, well-acted, and well-directed episode that doesn’t advance the story at all.