The 100: Season 03, Episode 08, “Terms and Conditions” Posted by Melanie on March 11, 2016 · 5 Comments A lot of things come full circle this episode. Food and water are running low in Arcadia, just as oxygen was on the Ark. The Chancellor is making awful decisions and being undermined, only here it’s Kane doing the undermining. The Grounders are insisting someone be brought to justice for his crimes or they will … Continue reading →

Lost Girl: Season 05, Episode 16, “Rise” Posted by Melanie on October 27, 2015 · 14 Comments Two quick things before I get into the review. Next week I plan to do a whole series overview and closing thoughts / episode ranking, of sorts. This is by far the longest show I’ve covered, and I’ve written much in depth about it, so I want to put my thoughts about it as a whole … Continue reading →

Lost Girl: Season 05, Episode 13, “Family Portrait” Posted by Melanie on October 6, 2015 · 9 Comments Last week, I said Lost Girl disregarded character completely in service of plot/twist, and everything was being sacrificed on the altar of trying to ‘trick’ the audience, wrench melodrama from every possible place, and service unbelievable endgames. I also was quite confused as to exactly what happened in the final scene. As a rule, I never read other … Continue reading →

Lost Girl: Season 05, Episode 12, “Judgement Fae” Posted by Melanie on September 29, 2015 · 12 Comments Well, THAT was an utter disaster. Actually, not utter. The acting not only rose above the content, but was possibly some of the best work this series has seen, especially when you consider how many hoops were jumped through and sharks over. This episode is a mess of coincidences, arbitrary ‘tasks,’ impulsive moves, anticlimactic scenes, … Continue reading →

Lost Girl: Season 05, Episode 11, “Sweet Valkyrie High” Posted by Melanie on September 21, 2015 · 5 Comments Somewhere in the fourth season, Lost Girl lost its way. It wandered a little in the third, but the fourth is where the focus on relationships, the offbeat blend of classical lore with modern family and struggles, get fully lost in the push to make long arcing plots convoluted and mysterious. It’s also where we lost … Continue reading →

Lost Girl: Season 05, Episode 10, “Like Father, Like Daughter” Posted by Melanie on September 15, 2015 · 1 Comment Lost Girl often takes advantage of the ability to make a narrative switch at an episode break, as they do here. Sometimes TV shows use the episode break as a cheap way to put off answering the audiences’ questions and prolong the tensions, but here it also allows us to see how the characters themselves aren’t sure what happened. Over the … Continue reading →