Reaper

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Episode 1. "The Pilot Episode Sanction" is a blast from start to finish. It's easily the best pilot I'm seen this Summer so far and I can't wait to see more. It's quirky, funny and full of references to everything I love: sixties TV, comics, movie icons. A young woman (the gorgeous Natalie Morales) becomes sidekick to a mysterious superhero (Matt Keeslar) and helps him defeat a talking gorilla with designs on world domination (by killing mob leaders and leaving bananas at the murder scenes!). Javier Grillo-Marxuach has had a hand in some of the very best TV shows of the past decade and this looks like a worthy addition to the list.   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (RikerDonegal) Valentine Type of Pilot: Romantic Comedy/Drama Weaknesses: The story in the pilot is a bit corny: girl overlooks nice-guy best-friend in favour of the jackass Alpha Male. In the real world, of course, the Alpha Male jackass always wins, so on TV (and in the movies) the nice-guy best-friend wins instead and they live happily every after (eating ice cream in front of the tv, in this instance). Other Info: I was just thinking how compatible this would be with Reaper, then I read that creator/writer Kevin Murphy has worked on Reaper (as well as the wonderful Jack & Jill). Three Things I Really Like About This Pilot: Sweet. One Thing I Kinda Don't Like About This Pilot:   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (RikerDonegal) Now where can I read Supernatural reviews from Season one? Awesome show. But... Then the show would stop to try and make me laugh. And fail. I gues this is why Supernatural is Supernatural and Reaper is Reaper. Each inhabits it's own world and does the stories that suit the tone of the world. Reaper is a cool, wonderful show. But it's silly. It places inept guys up against fearsome foes and... makes it work. A prank war would not be out of place in that universe. In fact... I hope they do it. Supernatural is a different beast. And, apart from superficial common elements, the shows have nothing in common. Supernatural is a drama series grounded in reality: a broken family, brotherly love, gruesome murders, and a tone that sets it in a world not very far from our own.   [read the full post]