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American Animals Composer Anne Nikitin: The Blast Interview

January 19, 2018

Since winning the BBC New Talent, New TV Composers scheme in 2006, Anne Nikitin has worked tirelessly to become the award-winning composer she is today. Nikitin’s work can be heard in various high-profile telev...

“Orphan Black” – By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried (2.10) season finale review

Ally Johnson

June 28, 2014

Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) hands herself over in the season two finale of Orphan Black. For the majority of the season two finale of Orphan Black, I couldn’t help but feel like something was missing. Nothing...

“Orphan Black” – Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done (2.09) episode review

Ally Johnson

June 16, 2014

Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) makes an impossible choice. Orphan Black sure knows how to turn it around. After a lackluster showing last week, and with the penultimate episode airing this week, I expected somet...

“Orphan Black” – Knowledge of Causes, and Secret Motion of Things (2.07) episode review

Ally Johnson

June 1, 2014

Sarah and Allison (Tatiana Maslany) meet up in this weeks episode to do damage control. Well then. The term “that escalated quickly” has rarely been more applicable. I don’t know about you but I certainly...

“Orphan Black” – To Hound Nature in Her Wanderings (2×06) episode review

Ally Johnson

May 27, 2014

Helena (Tatiana Maslany) makes a friend in this weeks episode of Orphan Black. You know we are not just a concept, right? That we are your consequences? Orphan Black has always been a narrative abo...

“Orphan Black”- Governed As If By Chance (2×04) episode review

Ally Johnson

May 12, 2014

Cosima (Tatiana Maslany) and Felix (Jordan Gavaris) research project LEDA. See, now that’s how Sarah Manning should be written. After I spent a good portion of my time in last week’s review har...

“Orphan Black” – Mingling Its Own Nature With It” (2×03) episode review

Ally Johnson

May 4, 2014

Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) is on the run in this weeks Orphan Black. I wouldn’t be surprised if viewers were feeling a bit of whiplash after this week’s episode of Orphan Black considering just how...

Six Issues we have with BBC’s “Sherlock,” and why we won’t be watching it anymore

Angelica Marciano

February 24, 2014

This article was written by Angelica Marciano and Megan Seabaugh Thanks to you, Season 3. There’s already a great, in depth review of Season Three of BBC’s Sherlock up on this website, so if you’re lookin...

“Sherlock” – His Last Vow (3.03) season finale review

Ally Johnson

February 3, 2014

Could it be possible? Are we already at the third and final episode of the season? It would appear so as we’re delivered another highlight in the form of a season finale. The basic premise of the episod...

“Sherlock” – The Sign of Three (3×02) episode review

Ally Johnson

January 27, 2014

This week’s newest episode of Sherlock "The Sign of Three" is a play on an original Holmes story entitled "The Sign of the Four." In the original story, one of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's longer pieces, thi...

“Sherlock” – The Empty Hearse (3×01) episode review

Ally Johnson

January 20, 2014

After a two year wait coming off of the cliff hanger in the wonderful episode “The Reichenbach Fall,” the Sherlock team had a lot weighing on them in terms of expectations. With enthusiastic fans hyping up th...

“Doctor Who” – The Time of the Doctor Christmas Special review

Ally Johnson

December 27, 2013

I’m having quite a difficult time writing this review. I have a lot of opinions on it, I have a multitude of complaints and vitriol I would love to throw in showrunner Steven Moffat’s face, but beyond that I ...

“Doctor Who” – The Day of the Doctor 50th aniversary episode review

Ally Johnson

November 24, 2013

“Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame, whatever the cost.” I’m not quite sure what I am to make of this episode because all things considered, it was predictab...