Posts tagged supernatural
Revolution – new series letdown
Although marketing has done efforts to link the new Revolution TV series to JJ Abrams, this is not quite so. The much-anticipated Revolution is the creation of Eric Kripke (known for the Supernatural series), who shared production, directing and most of the writing (at this point at least). The pilot was directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man). JJ [...]
New TV Series: Alphas
Whenever a new TV series is suggested to me, I ask one particular question: what is the purpose of that series? In this question, I try to follow the subject of the series, the tone and the message it tries to convey with the respect to the subject. If I find at least the subject to be of interest, I watch it. Once I receive the message, I s [...]
TV Series: Endings
CSI Miami: The weakest in the CSI franchise marked the end of it’s 8th season. Consistent with its reputation of being weak in script but with a great amount of “coolness”, the 8th season of CSI Miami ends with a suspenseful bang as always. In fact, if I were to note CSI Miami for anything, it would be for the coolness of Horatio Caine and th [...]
Urban Fantasy: Supernatural
The third installment in this overview of contemporary urban fantasy renditions finds us vising the aforementioned Supernatural fantasy series. Much like the others, Supernatural struggles to paint a hidden face of our world. This hidden face encompasses the unexplained events, the mysterious creatures of uncertain origins, mythology and last [...]
Urban Fantasy: True Blood
The urban fantasy genre, also known as shhhh, they’re among us!, has always been a top seller amassing a great fanbase when it comes to books. In the past decade however, movie adaptations attempts failed miserably because (for some unknown reason) they tried to fill in the patterns and stereotypes of the high fantasy (also known as elv [...]
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