By Jamie Ruby
Syfy's hit documentary-reality series, Hollywood Treasure, returns tonight for a second season of all new hour long episodes. Collectibles expert and owner of Profiles in History, Joe Maddalena, stars. Each week he and his crew will travel the world searching for rare Hollywood memorabilia to sell at auction.
This season will feature collectibles such as the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, items from Lost, District 12 from The Hunger Games, and much more.
Maddalena recently sat down with the digital media to discuss season two of the series and what fans can look forward to.
Syfy's hit documentary-reality series, Hollywood Treasure, returns tonight for a second season of all new hour long episodes. Collectibles expert and owner of Profiles in History, Joe Maddalena, stars. Each week he and his crew will travel the world searching for rare Hollywood memorabilia to sell at auction.This season will feature collectibles such as the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, items from Lost, District 12 from The Hunger Games, and much more.
Maddalena recently sat down with the digital media to discuss season two of the series and what fans can look forward to.
It's all been leading up to something. Last season ended with a violent regime change and the outbreak of war. Season 2 has delivered a similar slow boil approach, likely saving the most dramatic events for the final two episodes of the season. So here we are, in the calm before the storm. But what form will that storm take? Will it be the climactic siege of King's Landing that I'm so eagerly hoping for? Or will the final two episodes unveil something far more unexpected? Perhaps both?
This well-named and well-made episode is just the kind of thing "Lost Girl" needs after a rocky opening to the second season. There's no flashback wigs and bad accents, and no lazy use of old storytelling devices: instead, "Better to Burn Out Than Fae Away" puts the emphasis on the characters, on prodding and probing at the world of the Fae and on providing a solid hour of fun television.
Considering that the entire season has been leading to a confrontation between Nick, his Grimm status, and key figures in his professional and personal lives, it's been an open prediction that all of it would come crashing together in the season finale. In fact, it was so telegraphed that anything less would be disappointing. So how did the writers manage to wrap up this uneven first season?
Coming into this season finale, I had two expectations: first, that the Leviathan plot arc would be resolved, and second, that Bobby would be shuffled off into the great beyond once and for all. Both took place in this episode, but I can't say that the execution was up to the usual level of "Supernatural" excellence.
We are now in the middle section of a three-part trilogy of episodes to end this series. Judging a middle section of such a trilogy (whether it be movies or something else) is a notoriously difficult thing to do. If "Say Hello to My Little Friend" was the kickoff to Michael's pursuit of what happened in the accident, then this episode serves as the escalation to those events.
As the season finale of “Once Upon A Time” swirled around me, I kept being reminded of Paint-by-Numbers. Those simulations of creativity that, if slavishly followed, may produce a copy of a masterpiece, but one devoid of the original’s style, verve, and soul. The show hit major plot points, paid off long-simmering threads, but too much of it left me cold and unsatisfied.
While "Touch" is still too self-indulgent for its own good, and I don't see myself watching it after the end of the first season (unless the season finale changes things dramatically), this is the second episode in a row that worked for me. One big reason is the tighter focus of the writing; this episode, like the previous installment, has only two plot threads. This forces the writers to make the connections more logical.
Grimm’s first season was a bit of a slow burn, but recently the storyline has been heating up as Nick finds it increasingly difficult to keep his identity hidden from the people closest to him. It looks like he may have to let Juliette in on the secret in this week’s season finale.