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I didn’t get into Game of Thrones right away, in fact, I tried watching the pilot several times and bailed about ten minutes in...
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In 2020, 12 Years A Slave Director Steve McQueen created a sweepingly cinematic anthology miniseries for the BBC called Small Axe about the lives...
That Girl, the groundbreaking television series that premiered in 1966, stands as a cultural artifact of its time, with both commendable and questionable aspects....
I described the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as “the Star Trek of my imagination” upon its debut in 2022. Following...
I didn’t get into Game of Thrones right away, in fact, I tried watching the pilot several times and bailed about ten minutes in...
Doomed man in space, a mad scientist tormentor, sarcastic robot friends, and cheesy movies. I am living the revival life with Mystery Science Theater...
I have to think that there’s a portion of the established fan-base of Twin Peaks that’s turned off by the drastically different reboot currently...
I promised to get back to sci-fi unaired pilots so here is one with a trove of a backstory (the making of, not the...
This week all of the shitcoms are 1987 CBS cast offs. Why 1987 CBS shows? Because I happened to pick these out of my...
Back when I started this column I did a quick overview of some pilots which I would like to revisit in more detail (also...
Praise the geek gods for Greg Berlanti and the Arrowverse, right? Never, ever, in a million years, did I think I’d be watching weekly...
Time for more Shitcoms. Lets start with the 1989 (this is important damn it) “supernatural comedy” Shivers. Why is the 1989 important? Because the...
“In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.” – Dexter Gordon In this day and age of gore porn, where hack ‘em, slash ‘em...
Comedy is subjective… but damn it sometimes shit just isn’t funny. We shall look at some of the most unfunny sitcom pilots ever… shitcoms...
Superheroes Decoded is a two-part documentary about the history of superheroes and comic books. Piggybacking on Brad Meltzer’s Decoded series title, this is in-depth...
What happens when a backdoor pilot is not really a backdoor pilot? I mean when it’s not officially a pilot nor intended as a...
The success of the revamped Archie comics was a phenomena few could have predicted, but was more than welcomed. The much-needed overhaul of the...
If you’ve read my column or followed my Facebook for any decent duration of time, then you know my general fandom for the sitcom...
A backdoor pilot is essentially a spinoff hidden within the parent series. Last time I mentioned that Star Trek had one of these and...
Well, here we are. The latest row about pop culture diversity continues with Iron Fist. It wasn’t enough that a vocal group of people...
Sometimes a pilot is hiding right there out in the open and you didn’t even see it. There are times an established series wants...
Sometimes good ideas elude those who have no talent and sometimes good ideas need a little more time to cook. This Pilot Error we...
The time is 4:45 and I’m at my Homegirl Claire’s apartment (she’s got a big screen TV with stereo sound) where we’ve just begun...
I hate Gregg Araki. I despise his films and feel he is one of the worst and yet somehow most pretentious filmmakers of the...
There is no real theme this Pilot Error other than what should have been cool ideas being completely bungled. Wonder Woman Wonder Woman...
Sometimes a pilot is aired but not the way it was shot. There are often times multiple versions of a pilot shot before the...
Sometimes, the best way to allay a fear is to confront it. In the early 1980s, in the midst of a Cold War that...
I am still looking at comic strip related TV specials… sigh… lets dive right in. Remember how much I hated the B.C. Thanksgiving special...