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“Burton and Taylor” a fitting elegy for Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton’s romance

October 15, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Let’s just get this out of the way immediately: Burton and Taylor ain’t Liz & Dick. Last year’s notorious Lifetime biopic starring Lindsay Lohan was about as sudsy and over-the-top as we wanted it to be — truly, no vase was safe on that set — but now BBC America is chiming in with a much more serious, thoughtful take on the indomitable romance between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Where Liz & Dick was histrionic, Burton and Taylor is moody and subdued. While Lohan read her lines like she was reciting a speech, Helena Bonham Carter inhabits the role […]

Homeland Season 3 recap: Episode 3 – “Tower of David”

October 14, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Homeland Season 3 recap: Episode 3 – “Tower of David” After not seeing Brody (Damian Lewis) in the first two episodes of Homeland Season 3, we finally got a big dose of him in last night’s third episode of the season, “Tower of David.” The episode was a fairly claustrophobic one for the show, keeping us, for the most part, in Brody’s new location, while occasionally interspersing this with Carrie’s (Claire Danes) similar predicament still a resident of the psychiatric hospital. We see Brody first, and he’s been through hell. He’s in Venezuela, the next leg of his escape journey, but things […]

Boardwalk Empire Season 4 Episode 6 recap: ‘The North Star’

October 14, 2013 Matthew Grimm

Sex can be two strangely opposite things: an act of furious life-affirmation and ultimate trust, on one hand, and, on another, a weapon wielded in acts of betrayal and weakness. Our two favorite Atlantic City gangsters Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) and Chalky White (Michael K. Williams) staked out both ends of the spectrum in last night’s Boardwalk Empire on HBO. Kelly Macdonald returned, making her first appearance last night as Nucky’s estranged wife Margaret. She agrees to an awkward meeting at Penn Station while Nucky waits for a train to Tampa. She is hesitant to share much about her life […]

The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 1 recap: ‘30 Days Without An Accident’

October 13, 2013 Lori Acken

Fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead have been readying themselves for a whole new world at the prison ever since we watched the busload of Woodbury residents arrive at the end of Season 3. Some six months later, what a world it is — comparatively speaking, anyway. Solid steps back toward civilization. The Rick-tator (Andrew Lincoln) — brought to the brink by the brutality of his new reality and its effect on him and his family — is now Farmer Grimes with pens of ponies and piglets and thriving vegetable gardens. He’s also refusing to carry a gun, throwing one […]

NBC announces next Day of Days “Days of our Lives” fan event

October 11, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Soap operas have fallen on hard times in recent years, with some notable, long-running ones being canceled after decades on the air. NBC’s sole survivor in the genre, Days of our Lives, continues to maintain its viewership, however (it recently delivered its biggest one-week overall audience in four years), and in recognition of its fans, the series will again be holding a “Day of Days” fan event, featuring several stars from the daytime drama. (With the ever-increasing possibility of a soap’s cancelation, events such as this, where stars connect and maintain bonds with fans, might prove to become even more important […]

Scandal Season 3 recap: Episode 2 – “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”

October 11, 2013 Sterling Silver

Scandal Season 3 recap: Episode 2 – “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” By Sterling Silver III We learn more in this episode on what terms the relationship is established between Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) and her father, Rowan “Eli” Pope (Joe Morton), and how it ultimately fell apart. The first scene backtracks five years to a forced-upon dinner between dinner between Olivia and her father. Olivia was not pleased to be there as she referenced the “agreement” to have weekly Sunday dinners with her father with the return of her law school loans being paid off. Fans also learn through […]

Adelaide Kane says The CW’s era-mixing “Reign” is a “beautiful mishmash” of historical fashion

October 10, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

You probably know you’re watching The CW when you see a historical drama based on Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots) and the screen is filled with impossibly beautiful young people wearing clothes not quite of the era, including stiletto heels. And to drive home the fact that a bit of creative license was taken with The CW’s new series Reign, star Adelaide Kane (Teen Wolf), who plays Mary, confirmed for me in an interview this summer at the Television Critics Association Press Tour that, “This isn’t the History Channel. … It’s a TV show. It’s supposed to be fun! […]

Sons of Anarchy Season 6 recap: “The Mad King”

October 9, 2013 StayTuned Staff

It’s not at all uncommon for a series to follow up a huge, game-changing episode — like the one Sons of Anarchy Season 6 threw at us last week — with a rather ho-hum affair. And while some big stuff does indeed happen in “The Mad King,” including one, ahem, explosive ending, for the most part it’s a rather subdued hour filled with the mechanics of moving pieces together for whatever is to come later on. Lee Toric’s death apparently wasn’t the earth-shattering event for the characters that it was for viewers (at least me anyway), as they tend to […]

Cory Monteith tribute on Glee

October 8, 2013 Tom Comi

Cory Monteith tribute on Glee. Many fans of the late actor and the show have been waiting anxiously to see how FOX will handle his death as well as that of his character, Finn Hudson. We will find out Thursday night at 9pm ET with the Cory Monteith tribute. While the episode is being billed as “The Quarterback” in reference to the position Finn played before joining the school glee club, the cast and everybody watching on television knows this is everybody’s way of saying goodbye to Monteith (who died of a drug overdose in July). Even after his character […]

Homeland Season 3 recap: Episode 2 – “Uh … Oo … Aw …”

October 7, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

There was still no sign of Brody (Damian Lewis) in last night’s second episode of Showtime’s Homeland Season 3, but there was no shortage of drama, some of it from Brody’s family who, along with so many others, are still dealing with the events of the explosion at Langley. In fact, last night’s episode — while featuring good doses of Saul (Mandy Patinkin) and Peter (Rupert Friend) — proved to be carried in large part by the female characters of the show. Not only by Dana (Morgan Saylor) and Jessica (Morena Baccarin) Brody, but also by, or course, Carrie Mathsion (Caire Danes) […]