Sam Raimi’s Legend of the Seeker makes for a couple hours of entertaining television. Is it earth-shatteringly refreshing television? By no means.

“Wizard’s First Rule” (Terry Goodkind)
Supersite Ain’t-It-Cool News has gathered snippets of reviews for the pilot episode of Sam Raimi’s Legend of the Seeker, a show filmed in New Zeland and based on Terry Goodkind’s epic Sword of Truth series. Most of the reviews are less than flattering.
I must admit that, having read the first four [...]

Sorry to have missed a week of Heroes review goodness. There are a couple reasons for this. First, work has kept me pretty busy. Second, and perhaps more significant, last week’s episode was such a structural mess that I didn’t think I’d have anything interesting to say about it. Nevertheless, I’ll give it a shot.
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Last night I awoke in the wee hours of the morning to watch the latest episode of Heroes, “I Am Become Death”.In terms of character development, this just might be the most significant episode since season one’s “Company Man.” A liberal pinch of action didn’t hurt either. Read my detailed, spoiler-rich review after the leap.

Since I’m sticking with reviews that are low in spoiler content, I don’t have a whole lot to say about this episode except in the most general of terms. For a review rich in spoilers, you can check out the one posted over at tor.com.
The story arc of this chapter is slowly becoming clearer. It [...]

After reading and reviewing Dead Until Dark last week, I couldn’t wait to spend some time with HBO’s True Blood. Over the weekend, I had time to do just that, and I must say I’m extremely impressed.
The TV show, under the capable leadership of Alan Ball (Six Feet Under), manages to hold true to its [...]

Unless there’s a lot of demand, I won’t be posting very in-depth reviews of these episodes. There are plenty of new media people who do a much better job, most notably The 10th Wonder podcast. I still feel it incumbent on me to share my cursory musings.
A spirit walker, an ice queen, and the eponymous [...]

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I’m not a huge watcher of television, but the few shows I do watch fall well within the focus of this blog. NBC’s Heroes , now in its third season, tells the stories of a ever-growing cast of ordinary people who discover that they have extraordinary powers. Think a more emotionally mature [...]