Hey, Clone Club! An FYI as you’re wondering, “What’s this weirdo doing recapping Orphan Black?”—I’m posting this for Amy, your regular in-flight entertainment. She wasn’t able to be at her computer, but says hello, and wants you all to tweet her. Please tweet her, because I’m ridiculously out of the...
Author - Eric Mayrhofer
While “This World Is Our Hell” is easily my least favorite episode of Penny Dreadful to date, I’ll say that with the slight caveat that it had the misfortune of coming right after one of the traditionally exceptional Vanessa episodes. Seriously, nothing that’s happened this season can beat “A Blade of...
Since Season One, Penny Dreadful has occasionally given the appearance of diverting from the main narrative course to zero in on Vanessa. These chapters, however, proved to be essential in understanding not just Vanessa—and they did reveal so much about her, from Season One’s “Closer Than Sisters” telling us how she first...
Alas, this week’s Penny Dreadful recap is slightly delayed. I was at a funeral, which is oddly fitting, considering our series in question, and especially considering this week’s episode, “Good and Evil Braided Be.” I have attended four memorials lately: two wakes for family of friends, and a wake and funeral for a slightly more distant...
While Penny Dreadful’s third season order is shorter (nine episodes compared to last season’s 10), and while a shorter season order can’t be considered a good sign for the show’s future, I hope that we’ll get a Season Four despite any trouble the show might have with ratings. I love everything about it, and so far the current storyline...
Hello, legion! Starting tonight, yours truly will be reviewing Penny Dreadful. This is may be my favorite show on television right now, and I’m excited for the chance to break it down with you every week. Want to talk about it until the scorpions come home? Tweet me! The climactic confrontation in Season Two ended with Vanessa Ives telling her...
“Twilight of the Apprentice” is a longer episode of Star Wars Rebels, but this is going to be a slightly shorter recap. Why? There’s soooo much to talk about. So this is going to be a quick mix of episode recap and my thoughts, and then I’ll dig in to the meat of this amazing season ender in another piece. If you want to talk about it...
If this is Stars Wars Rebels’ version of a cool-down episode after the excitement that got the Rebels to their shiny, er, sandy new base, sign me up for one every day of the week. Everyone has something to do: Hera directs the transfer of supplies to the planet surface, the clone troopers find water underground, Sabine sets up a perimeter of...
Oh hey, rebels! I’m Eric Mayrhofer, new to the Legion and picking up recap duties on our current animated jaunt in the Star Wars universe—Star Wars Rebels. This episode continues the rebel fleet’s seemingly endless shortage of supplies and safe harbor. Fortunately, one of those problems is about to resolve at the cold-open when the fleet...