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Syfy Twilight Zone New Year’s Eve Marathon 2013 episode schedule

December 10, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

It’s only a few more weeks until New Year’s Eve 2013, and today Syfy reminded us of that fact by announcing that its annual programming event favorite, the Syfy Twilight Zone New Year’s Eve Marathon, will be making its return this year, running over 40 hours from Dec. 31 at 8am ET/PT until Jan. 2 at 5am ET/PT. Once again, the lineup of Syfy Twilight Zone marathon episodes is pretty extensive, featuring several of the classics you all know and love (including many written or inspired by the late, great Richard Matheson, who passed away this year). Additionally, Syfy says […]

Scandal recap: “YOLO”

December 6, 2013 Sterling Silver

Scandal recap: “YOLO” I entered my viewing experience at 6 this morning (I was busy during the episode) believing that an episode titled “YOLO” wouldn’t exactly be a moniker for television excellence and that I would promptly fall back asleep during the episode. Then again, this is Scandal we’re talking about. In true Scandal fashion, it had me off the futon, definitely awake, and excited to start my day like the sun mascot from the Jimmy Deans commercials. My excitement began with the opening scene, featuring a kill-thirsty Huck (Guillermo Diaz) standing over a similarly situated prey like during his […]

Sons of Anarchy recap: “You Are My Sunshine”

December 4, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Now is about the time in every Sons of Anarchy run when it feels more like the end of the series is near, and not just the season. That’s never more true than after the events of “You Are My Sunshine,” this week’s Sons of Anarchy recap. We start with Patterson (CCH Pounder) reaming Jax (Charlie Hunnam) over the bloodbath he orchestrated involving Galen (Timothy V. Murphy) and Clay (Ron Perlman). She knows he’s lying, he knows she knows, but in the end they both came out better off. Perhaps Patterson is willing to let things slide a little bit […]

Bonnie and Clyde: A&E Networks’ miniseries event shows darker vision of outlaw couple

December 2, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, known much better without their surnames, have become unlikely folk heroes thanks largely to the 1967 Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway film that featured the tagline “They’re young. They’re in love. They kill people.” In that version, and subsequently in the public’s imagination, Bonnie and Clyde pulled off their violent crimes with the zeal of youth, and faced their notorious bullet-riddled deaths with smiles on their faces, the very embodiment of the philosophy of live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse. It’s a tall order to think any retelling could overshadow what seems […]

Mob City: Jon Bernthal reunites with former ‘Walking Dead’ boss Frank Darabont for TNT’s noir event

November 27, 2013 Lori Acken

Mob City premieres Dec. 4 at 10/9CT on TNT. When Jon Bernthal teamed up with Oscar-nominated writer/producer/director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) on the set of Darabont’s apocalyptic AMC drama The Walking Dead, he knew he’d forged a personal and professional partnership that would last long after viewers ultimately discover who comes out on top, the living or the undead. So when the actor, who played loose-cannon former cop Shane Walsh, learned his character’s time was up around the same time Darabont was confoundingly excused from the show he’d helped make a pop-culture phenomenon, there was already […]

Boardwalk Empire Season 4 finale recap: ‘Farewell Daddy Blues’

November 25, 2013 Matthew Grimm

Give it to Terrence Winter. Even when he takes a season of Boardwalk Empire to help us truly loathe some of his characters and have us yearning for them to get theirs, he reminds us that even the violence we now expect to solve our TV problems is far from a neat clean thing. Agent Tolliver (Brian Geraghty) found that out in brutal fashion at the hands of inferiority-complex-addled Bureau of Investigation informer Eli Thompson (Shea Whigham) on last night’s Season 4 finale. Chalky White (Michael Kenneth Williams) came face-to-face with the cold reality of the collateral damage of such […]

Scandal recap: “Vermont is for Lovers, Too”

November 22, 2013 Sterling Silver

Scandal Recap: “Vermont is for Lovers, Too” So it looks like Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) is back to her once-every-few-episodes “physical encounters” with President Grant (Tony Goldwyn) after finding out that that he only bought her a three-story home! Oh, and Maya Pope (Khandi Alexander) looks like she is finally going to talk to Olivia for the first time in 20 years. But let’s backtrack to the beginning. Olivia began the hour by conversely making attempts to ignore President Grant by trying to hide the phone he kept attempting to call and by slamming it with a stone repeatedly. Jake […]

“Sons of Anarchy”: 5 most shocking deaths

November 21, 2013 StayTuned Staff

(WARNING: This post contains massive spoilers for several seasons of Sons of Anarchy, so if you’re not caught up, get thee to a DVD player or streaming device and make it happen.) It’s a dicey proposition trying to rank the most shocking deaths in a show like Sons of Anarchy. You always have to consider it a work in progress. To wit, I started this blog a few weeks ago after Lee Toric’s wtf death scene, before other assignments sort of put it on the back burner until time got away from me. Well, then Kurt Sutter and Company go […]

BBC America goes Greek with new “Atlantis” series

November 21, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

“He’s strong because his father’s a god, not because he goes to the gym every day,” Mark Addy told reporters at a summer press conference about his portrayal of the Greek demigod Hercules in the new BBC America series Atlantis — a portrayal that did not require the near-50 Addy to get in any sort of muscular shape. “Our director,” he continued, “the front page of her copy of the script has an old painting with Hercules peeing. Drunken, naked Hercules just having a pee. That’s the kind of guy that this one is.” And that’s the kind of show […]

Doctor Who: “An Adventure in Space and Time” tells origin story of sci-fi classic

November 20, 2013 StayTuned Staff

As difficult to comprehend as it may be in our geek-obsessed culture, there was a time when concepts like Time Lords, the TARDIS and Daleks all seemed a bit odd. Back in 1963, Doctor Who was just another BBC program, a quirky little sci-fi venture that had the unfortunate luck to premiere the day after President Kennedy was assassinated. Beyond that, the network was iffy on the whole idea, which was headed by a pair of ambitious yet untested producers, and starred a curmudgeonly actor many people felt was past his prime. But 50 years later, here we are, discussing […]