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• Walking Dead Midseason Premiere Review

  by Cranky Critic February 17, 2013
  The midseason premiere is titled: The Suicide King.   It made me want to commit suicide, so it is an apt title.   Here is the entire episode synopsis:   Daryl leaves without saying goodbye.   Fifty minutes of lame dialogue that does absolutely nothing to move the story fo...

• Revolution: From Bad to Worse

  by Cranky Critic November 16, 2012
  The latest episode of Revolution, titled "The Ties that Bind" should be called "The Writing that Grinds".   In the first five minutes of the episode, "the gang" walks into a trap. The militia under the command of Strausser must be the elite squad, because they are all armed with modern combat...

• ABCs Revolution: Do Kids Write For TV Now?

  by Cranky Critic November 7, 2012
  Dissecting an episode of Revolution lazy plot flaw by lazy plot flaw.   Okay, I want to be fair. Maybe ABC's Revolution is just good old fashioned formula television writing.   But does that explain away some of the glaring plot flaws?   The first example that the writers e...

• Revolution TV Show Review: The Best in Bad Television

  by Cranky Critic November 7, 2012
  When Terra Nova was cancelled after one season, I was crushed. When it came to bad television, terrible acting, horrible plot lines and ridiculous deus ex machinas, Terra Nova destroyed the competition. There's was nothing I could do but continue to watch and mock week after week until it met i...