Tonight on Fandom Access we will be hosting a special podcast for NBC's Awake at 9pm eastern, before the newest episode airs. We will first be discussing Awake and why we love it, and we want to hear from you! We are calling all fans to call in and tell us what it is why you like Awake and want to see more of it from NBC!
After the discussion at the end of the podcast, heard for the first time, I will be playing the exclusive Jason Isaacs interview live on the air. Be among the first to hear it. Whether you are an Awake fan, or a Jason Isaacs fan, be sure to listen tonight!
Please spread the word and be sure to join us and we'd love to have you call in/join the chat.
You can access the podcast on BlogTalkRadio or directly. Fandom Access has recently become a part of the NDB Media network, so a thanks to them for letting us have the slot on short notice!
To ask a question, dial 914-338-0314 and let me know ahead of time if you can either on twitter or in the chat your area code so I know who you are! Everyone is welcome to call.
Please help spread the word and we hope to hear from you tonight!
After the discussion at the end of the podcast, heard for the first time, I will be playing the exclusive Jason Isaacs interview live on the air. Be among the first to hear it. Whether you are an Awake fan, or a Jason Isaacs fan, be sure to listen tonight!
Please spread the word and be sure to join us and we'd love to have you call in/join the chat.
You can access the podcast on BlogTalkRadio or directly. Fandom Access has recently become a part of the NDB Media network, so a thanks to them for letting us have the slot on short notice!
To ask a question, dial 914-338-0314 and let me know ahead of time if you can either on twitter or in the chat your area code so I know who you are! Everyone is welcome to call.
Please help spread the word and we hope to hear from you tonight!
On last week's episode of Grimm, Adalind and Captain Renard added a new weapon to their arsenal - the chocolate chip cookie. The tasty treat contained a Wesen love potion that piqued Hank's interest in Adalind and had an unfortunate side effect on the cookie-stealing Sgt. Wu. 
One of my all-time favorite films is “The Stunt Man”, Richard Rush's defiantly independent paean to film-making and the blurry line between fantasy and reality (hmmm, sound familiar?). So, the announcement that Barbara Hershey, that film's female lead, would play Regina's mother, Cora, was one I greeted with great relish and anticipation. What I didn't anticipate was an episode where the show's creators, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, step in and take a major corrective yank on the show's tiller. After the mid-season doldrums, there's promise of much smoother, swifter sailing ahead.
It looks like the writers for “Grimm” are trying to step back and reintegrate concepts and plot threads from earlier in the season, and the result is a largely stand-alone episode that doesn’t quite have the same punch as more recent offerings. There are some signs that Adalind’s presence will finally amount to something, but this is very much a transitional episode, rather than a payoff.
Fear of the unknown drives nearly every character in this episode. It's entitled "Tea Leaves," which I think is a clever way for Matthew Weiner and his writers to give out the message that everyone in the Mad Men world cannot accurately predict the future. The people in charge at the agency are slow on the uptake to change, with the young guard always eager to replace the old, and keep the struggling company from going under. Change is coming for them, and if they don't adapt, they will die.
The first season of "Game of Thrones" was a triumph. I can think of no better word for it. "Game of Thrones" took a genre that was poorly represented on television and gave it the A-grade treatment in virtually every respect. That's another key word here: "respect". The show's respect for the source material won over fans of the books and gave the uninitiated a fantasy experience that was, essentially, a more adult successor to the "Lord of the Ring" trilogy. Comparisons between the two franchises could, and have been, made. But whether you're a fan of the books, or just the TV series, it's clear that simply calling George R. R. Martin's "the next Lord of the Rings" would be a gross oversimplification.
“Person of Interest” has had a busy season. It's had to juggle many things: victims, perps, cops, feds, shadowy spooks, criminal masterminds. So, it's no surprise they might need a breather, a chance to relax and let their hair down. Courtesy of an enterprising drug dealer, that's just what they get, along with an indelible image we never knew we needed to see until now: Finch on Ecstasy.
April 03, 2012
As the penultimate episode of the season, it makes sense that this installment would deliver a few punches, while setting the stage for a killer finale. As usual, the writers exceed my expectations by dragging the characters, and by extension the audience, through the wringer. It’s a bit exhausting, but it’s also one of the best shows on television right now.