MacGyver (2016)

MacGyver Website MacGyver @ Wikipedia MacGyver @ IMDb His name is MacGyver, Angus MacGyver. He doesn’t like guns. But that’s OK, because his best friend Jack Dalton uses them plenty. Mac and Jack work covertly for the government and their boss is Patricia Thornton. The third team member is Nikki Carpenter, a computer hacker. But…

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)….

Purchase Diary 2011 – January

Back to the Future 1 – 3 11 Jan – €24.01 (£17.99) @ Amazon.co.uk Mad Men: Season 1 – 3 18 Jan – €32.46 (£24.79) @ Amazon.co.uk Dexter: Season 3 20 Jan – €17.28 (£12.89) @ Amazon.co.uk Dune 20 Jan – €12.99 @ Media Markt Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door 20 Jan – €9.99 @ Media…

… And those that did neither nor

Deutsche Version | Those that came … those that went … those that did both … and those that did neither nor The Big Bang Theory A sitcom (with laugh track) about four scientists and their hot neighbour. I’m still enjoying this show very much. I don’t understand why they broke Penny and Leonard up…

TV Shows – A Decade in Retrospect

Deutsche Version Since everybody seems to be starting to count at zero instead of one the first decade of this century and millennium is now over. So it’s time to recap these past ten years and take a look at the TV Shows it has given us. Let me give my résumé at the beginning:…

Technological Overdose?

Deutsche Version Let me start this post with a constraint. This post is not about science-fiction shows or shows that portray obvious über-equipment (like K.I.T.T.). This is about shows that at least try to pretend to display “reality”. I am of course aware that there’s a thin line but I hope than I can show…

The Pilot Marathon Part 7

Deutsche Version | Part 6 | Part 8 Two and a Half Men What’s the show about? After his wife has thrown him out, Alan Harper has moved in with his brother Charlie who is a ad jingle composer, a womanizer and lives on a beach house. On the weekends Alan’s son Jake lives also…

Galactica 1980

Deutsche Version | Battlestar Galactica (1978) | Battlestar Galactica (2003) Disc 1 Galactica Discovers Earth Synopsis: After many yahren, the Galactica has finally discovered Earth. But Earth isn’t the save heaven they had hoped for. They are technologically inferior and wouldn’t survive a Cylon attack. Adama decides to send small teams down there to speed…

The Pilot Marathon Part 4

Deutsche Version | Part 3 | Part 5 The King of Queens What’s the show about? Doug Heffernan is a delivery man for International Parcel Service (IPS). His wife, Carrie, works as a secretary for a law firm. Both live in a house in Queens, New York and in the basement of that house lives…