KIN – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS The Kinsellas are a clan that deals drugs for a living. A conflict develops when their primary supplier (whose boss is Eamon Cunningham, played by Ciarán Hinds) insists on becoming their only …
SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS Negative publicity surrounding two recent supernaturally generated tragedies that he could not prevent has made Luke (Tim Rozon) consider giving up curing and selling haunted properties and taking the Agency mainstream. Susan …
SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS Luke (Tim Rozon) and the gang (late in the episode, someone refers to Susan as “Daphne from Scooby-Doo”) arrives at their offices exhausted after having dealt (ineffectively it turns out) with a …
SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 6 – SPOILERS Luke (Tim Rozon) explains the demon of the week, the Watchmaker: “They came over with the flood of German immigration in the mid-1800s,” he says, “which gave us kindergarten, and Christmas Trees, …
DEMONIC – written and directed by Neill Blomkamp – SPOILERS It begins in a dream in which Carly (Carly Pope) wanders through the dry grass surrounding a disused institutional-appearing building, calling out to her mother (who does not answer). She …
THE SWARM (La Nuée)- directed by Just Philippot – SPOILERS On a farm somewhere in the French countryside, Virginie Hébrard (Suliane Brahim) decides to raise locusts as a last ditch effort to survive. She has a mildly asthmatic, soccer-playing son …
SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS On the way back from placating some rich and fussy clients (Duncan and Sophie, played by Patrick Kwok-Choon and Laci J. Mailey), Susan (Sarah Levy) swerves to avoid a man on horseback …
SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 3 – SPOILERS Luke (Tim Rozon) heads north to see a new client, Harper North (Melanie Scrofano). Before leaving, he tasks Susan (Sarah Levy) with finding a house for an old client, horror author William …
BRIGHT HILL ROAD – directed by Robert Cuffley – SPOILERS ⁓ It’s quickly established that Marci (Siobhan Williams) is an alcoholic. She drives drunk, works drunk (she is in charge of HR for an unspecified company), and does everything else …
SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 2 – SPOILERS Let’s get to the important stuff first. We learn Zooey’s usual coffee order: “quad long shot medium-in-a-large-double cup half caff salted caramel mocha latte with two double pumps of vanilla and extra …
SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS Quotations abound in this episode and they are used effectively to set the mood for the story and characters. The first one is from Aleister Crowley (via August Ripley): “The conscience of …
SPOILERS — For the first three seasons of VAN HELSING, the life expectancy of the average character was not long. Of the 13 credited characters in the first episode, eight were deceased by the end of the thirty-ninth episode. Some …
WANDER – directed by April Mullen – written by Tim Doiron – SPOILERS Arthur Bretnik (Aaron Eckhart) investigates conspiracies. Using the on-air name Atlas Major, he and his sidekick Jimmy Cleats (Tommy Lee Jones) co-anchor a “deep web” podcast called …
VAN HELSING – Thoughts on the end of Season Five – SPOILERS Callie (Macie Juiles), who was rescued from Seattle’s vampire-infested streets by Vanessa and Mohamed (Trezzo Mahoro) in Episode 1.4, and turned up (sometimes unexpectedly) in nine other episodes, …
THE REST OF US – Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee – (limited spoilers) ⁓ It all begins with the death of a cat named Boots. After sustaining unspecified injuries, Boots is put down. Cami (Heather Graham) and Aster (Sophie Nélisse) decide …
VAN HELSING – Episodes 5.4 & 5.5 – SPOILERS In “State of the Union” (Episode 5.4) Doc (Rukiya Bernard) is able to cure Axel and Julius of the effects of the orange chemical cloud they ran into at the end …
VAN HELSING – Thoughts on Episodes 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 – SPOILERS The first three episodes of VAN HELSING Season Five are really a spinoff mini-series in which Jack (Nicole Munoz) travels to eighteenth century Transylvania with the aim of …
Who was the biological father of Vanessa and Scarlett? Their mother never says anything about the matter and neither of the twins ever asks. The most logical reason for Abigail’s silence is that she simply doesn’t know. In “Black Days” …
Area 33 will begin its TV coverage with Wynonna Earp Season 4b, which premieres 5 March at 10/9c on SyFy in the US and on the CTV SciFi Channel in Canada. A Wynonna Earp episode usually shares its title with …
(speculative recap) SPOILERS Wynonna Earp (Melanie Scrofano) has recovered Peacemaker, which has gone back to being a gun. (At the end of Season Three, Bulshar ended the Earp curse causing most revenants to vanish and transforming Wyatt’s Buntline Special into …
Jodie Comer – 11 March Karen Knox – 25 March Atticus Mitchell – 16 May Alycia Debnam-Carey – 20 July Sarah Troyer – 12 August Clark Backo – 5 September K C Collins – 18 October Mia Goth – 25 …
