By John Keegan and Edmund Boys
The time has come for “Once Upon A Time” to take a bite out of the apple, lose its innocence, and finally gain knowledge of the world around it. Oh, sorry, wrong storybook. In this tale, apples make you want to take a long nap, and answers will have to wait for the season finale (and maybe beyond).
The time has come for “Once Upon A Time” to take a bite out of the apple, lose its innocence, and finally gain knowledge of the world around it. Oh, sorry, wrong storybook. In this tale, apples make you want to take a long nap, and answers will have to wait for the season finale (and maybe beyond).
June 17th marks the return of basic cable's #1 new series last year, Falling Skies. The TNT drama will pick up where it left off at the end of last season with Tom Mason, played by Noah Wyle, having voluntarily boarded an alien spacecraft, hoping that it would help to save his sons and also open negotiation for the survival of the human race. The 2nd Mass has continued to struggle in his absence, as his eldest sons step up, both seeking to be leaders.
Tonight Fringe will conclude its fourth season with fans knowing that it will return again for a fifth. The finale is sure to be a an epic and probably game-changing episode. Last week we found out that David Robert Jones (Jared Harris) was not the mastermind behind all of the nefarious things happening, nor the plot to collapse universes. That honor belongs to William Bell, played by the legendary Leonard Nimoy, who used him as a pawn, and who we now know is not the same man as in the original universe.
The season arc for "The Secret Circle" has been a complete mess, but I have to give credit to the writers: they managed to bring a number of threads to a conclusion, even if some of the resolutions felt sloppy along the way. And while I was a bit annoyed at the final resolution of the Blackwell arc, it did force the story into an interesting direction.
I had a feeling what we were in for when the episode began with a flashback to happier times for Elena. And given my prediction in the review for the previous episode, as events continued to converge, I began to wonder how much was real and how much was in Elena's mind. On that note, I'm still not clear, but the end result was one of the most lyrical season finales I've seen in a long time.
I'm now caught up with "Touch", and I still think that the show has a number of problems. It's nice, though, that they are trying to incorporate a larger story arc to the series. So far, they're being about as subtle as a brick to the face, but at least they seem to be trying.
(Note: It has come to our attention that the Syfy version of this episode is significantly altered from the Canadian original cut. Reviews for “Lost Girl” have been, and will continue to be, based on the Canadian originals.)
The show chooses to highlight the struggles between men and women in the face of change among other things. A tug-o-war is occurring everywhere you look, from inside SCDP to the New York suburbs and even in the presence of crucial clients needed for business to continue. All of the characters on this show can't handle change the way they should.
Did you ever have a moment in your past when things got out of control, when you went a little too far? Many of us have, and, for most of this episode of “Person of Interest”, it looks like John Reese is careening towards his. Finch certainly makes that assumption, trying to keep Reese away from a case that hits a little too close to home. It makes for the most powerful melding of past and present to date, as the stories start to converge on the season finale.