by Diego de los Reyes | Sep 23, 2014 | Television
Is that time of the year again, when new shows rise and fall and old shows try to correct past sins. I’ll be watching a lot of it, so here’s a neat list of what I’m watching and what I expect of them. Let’s see how many make the cut come May. Monday Gotham I’m honestly not excited for this show. I’m not saying it can’t work — a cop show on the Batman universe is fine by me — but the promos focusing on the villains and the wink-winks aren’t appealing for me. I’ll probably watch the whole season, so I hope it turns into a pleasant surprise. Sleepy Hollow I binged watched this show and what I got was a load of crazy. But good crazy. I didn’t know how the series would keep-up after the pilot, and yet it has. I don’t know if it’ll suffer a sophomore slump… so I think it’ll do fine. Can’t wait to see what Abby and Ichabod are up to. Tuesday New Girl The S4 premiere was a good return to form, and this is a set of characters I like to return to over and over. S4 is still early enough on the show’s run that we can find new things to like about them, so I’m excited for the season. Agents of SHIELD It’s no secret I’m disappointed with this show. I’ve never rooted harder for a show to succeed (Whedon! Jed and Mo! Marvel!) and yet it let me down. Hope S2 picks up. This is a show I’ll watch every episode of. Hopefully I’ll stop sighing...
by Diego de los Reyes | Sep 22, 2014 | Television
I was in a bar with a couple of good friends, when the question came out: what was our biggest flaw? We all took rounds discussing the others’ flaws, but when my turn arrived, they answered in a second. “You can’t let go.” Pssht, I don’t know what they meant by that. Anyway, here’s a post celebrating the 10th anniversary of a TV show! I remember watching the Pilot, in March of 2005. I was 13, and American TV took a while then to get to our screens. This was the first time I had sat down and watched a ‘grown-up show’, and it blew my mind. “Guys, where are we?” Remember 2005? Broadband wasn’t a thing yet. So I had to suck it up and watch it on my TV screen, avoiding spoilers like the plague. One escaped, though, thanks to Raúl, I found out a character death in the Season 3 finale. So I sat down to watch that episode, crestfallen. Surely, that was the biggest spoiler there could be. Nope. Another image burned in my mind: me, sitting alone in my darkened room around 11:00 pm, a moment after “Through The Looking Glass” ended. Mouth agape, brain still trying to process what happened. I was on the floor, at the foot of the bed. I think I was hugging my knees, but that might just be my brain trying to embellish things. If there’s a decisive moment in my life, a moment when I realized what television could be… this was it. So here’s what I loved most about Lost: 1.- The Community This was the first show...
