TV Junkie: A History

I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board. Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old. I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story)….

Wedding Band

Wedding Band @ Wikipedia Wedding Band @ IMDb The show follows a weekend band that plays on weddings and B’nai Mitzvah (that’s the actual plural of Bar Mitzvah, I had to look it up for spelling anyway ;)) while having “real” jobs during the week. The lead singer Tommy played by Brian Austin Green (Beverly…

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004) Director: Peter Winther Noah Wyle … Flynn Carsen Sonya Walger … Nicole Noone Bob Newhart … Judson Kyle MacLachlan … Edward Wilde Kelly Hu … Lana Synopsis: Flynn Carsen is what we call in Germany a “Dauerstudent”, a student who never leaves the comfort of the university –…

Person of Interest

Person of Interest @ Wikipedia Person of Interest @ IMDb After 9/11 Harold Finch (Michael Emerson, LOST) built a machine that scanned every internet communication, every phone call, every surveillance camera recording for possible threats to the United States. It divides the results into two categories: major casualties and minor casualties. The government was only…

Purchase Diary 2012 – May

The Blues Brothers (1980) 02 May – €8.92 (£7.43) @ Amazon.co.uk Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) 02 May – €9.48 (£7.93) @ Amazon.co.uk Castle: Season 3 (2010 – 2011) 02 May – €22.99 @ Amazon.de Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 02 May – €11.68 (£9.89) @ Amazon.co.uk Friends With Benefits (2011) 02 May – €8.37 (£6.94)…

Smallville: The End of the Beginning

Let me start this by saying that it was better than LOST‘s ending. But that isn’t saying much… Smallville has always been an uneven show. It had good years, bad years and worse years. It never had great years. It rarely had great episodes. They were there but there weren’t as many as one would…

Hawaii Five-0

Hawaii Five-0 @ Wikipedia Hawaii Five-0 @ IMDb Steve McGarrett is a Navy Seal who resigns his offto work as a cop on his home island Hawaii. But just not as any cop and not just for some reason. His father was killed by the man he has been hunting for years and the HPD…

LOST – The Aftermath

There’s another question that has to be asked: What have Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof done to the mystery genre as such? Who is ever going to believe the next guy who comes along in fall 2013 claiming to have written THE mystery show and promising that it will all pay off in season five?…