Diablo III, The Ultimate Pavlovian Mechanism
I was a little hesitant to pick up Diablo III for my console – I’d played the first two games on a PC, and I had trouble seeing how some of the finer points of…
The 2014 Fall TV Season: What I’m Looking For
It’s that time of year again – your favorite TV shows are back, or about to come back. Yes, the huge, big deal shows – Mad Men, Game of Thrones – are approximately 46 months…
5 Amazing Episodes Of Television From Terrible Shows
Sometimes I get sucked into bad TV shows. I’m willing to overlook some pretty terrible flaws if a show has the right things going for it. I mean, David Duchovny alone was enough to get…
The Newsroom: Aaron Sorkin’s Chance To Leave It All On The Field
It seems like Aaron Sorkin can’t get a break. Sports Night got the axe into just its second season, when the characters were really starting to gel, The West Wing was a massive success but…
“You’re The Worst” Just Wrapped Season 1; Binge This
To binge watch, or not to binge watch. Our Fearless Leader Paul Tassi has vacillated between the pro and con sides of this debate, but like most things, I think the correct view depends a…
The Naming of Things
That’s a pretty clever name, right? Squid Vicious. I thought of it entirely independently. I got really excited, because it hit me in just the perfect way – clever, catchy, irreverent. I was going to…
Visual Epic-ness In Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television
When you think of science fiction and fantasy as a whole, one thing that binds them together is an expectation of a grand scale or scope. You’re much more likely to find an epic clash…
TV’s All-Stars of Getting Crap Past the Censors
By historical standards, television has certainly lightened up a bit in the last fifteen years. If the guys from Mad Men flipped on their 350-lbs Admiral televisions and happened to catch a random episode of,…
Time Travel With A Twist: Pathfinder
When it comes to entertainment, books are my meat and potatoes. Always loved them, always will. I picked up novels at an early age and never stopped consuming them. There are good stories in all…