Author Thom V. Young

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Spontaneous Quixote

Thom V. Young has lived all over the country—Idaho, Oregon, Ohio, California, Kansas, back to Idaho, Louisiana, and South Carolina—but he eventually ended up in Maryland. Over the course of his travels, he has had an array of odd jobs—including short order cook, fast food restaurant manager, construction worker, frozen food warehouseman, alternative health publications editor, and college professor. He has also published several poems and short stories in a variety of super-secret small-press publications.

A Deep Dive into DARK FOREST (2015)

April 5, 2018 0 35

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”

August 2, 2016 0 1

On one level—the visceral level—this episode’s season finale was very satisfying for several reasons.

12 Monkeys 2.12 “Blood Washed Away”

July 18, 2016 0 1

However, the series is not actually bad; it’s just not as good as it could (and should) be.

12 Monkeys 2.11 “Resurrection”

July 11, 2016 1

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”

July 4, 2016 0 4

“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”

June 27, 2016 0

Overall, “Hyena” wasn’t a great episode of 12 Monkeys. In fact, it’s mostly forgettable.

12 Monkeys 2.08 “Lullaby”

June 20, 2016 0 4

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”

June 13, 2016 1 1

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”

May 30, 2016 2 2

Overall, this season of 12 Monkeys has not been scripted as well as the first season.

12 Monkeys 2.05 “Bodies of Water”

May 23, 2016 1 2

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”

May 16, 2016 1 3

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”

May 9, 2016 0 1

Intellectually, I understand the change in Cassie. Yet, emotionally, I want the old Cassie back.

The Americans 4.05 “Clark’s Place”

May 3, 2016 0 1

At least for now in The Americans, Philip-Clark knows his place.

12 Monkeys 2.02 “Primary”

May 2, 2016 0 5

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”

April 25, 2016 1

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”

April 19, 2016 0 3

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”

April 9, 2016 0

Obviously, one person’s Utopia can become another person’s Dystopia.

The Americans 4.02 “Pastor Tim”

March 30, 2016 1 5

This episode of The Americans has walls coming down within the Jennings household.

The Americans 4.01 “Glanders”

March 27, 2016 0

We essentially get a well-scripted, well-acted, and well-directed episode that doesn’t advance the story at all.

Halt and Catch Fire 2.04 “Play with Friends”

July 7, 2015 0 3

With the 2nd season, the events in Halt and Catch Fire have been either close to chronologically correct or slightly ahead of what occurred.

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