Stephen King

I really, really want to review every book Stephen King has ever written. Well, that’s not quite true: I want billiedoux.com to have a Stephen King review extravaganza. To be the first place you look after you’ve read one of his books. To stop by to see which one you should read next. Is this even possible? I don’t know. Reviewing books is fun, but it’s also hard work, especially when the books are as connected as King’s are. But I’m going to try, and I’m going to keep trying.

The below list is not comprehensive, but it does include all of his major works. For a sortable list of all of King’s works, check out his website. The list isn’t necessarily the order in which I will review them, either. It’s more of a thematic thing, with some chronology thrown in. Like I said, this is hard.

Dark Tower:

DT: Gunslinger
DT: Drawing of the Three
DT: The Wasteland
DT: Wizard and Glass
DT: The Wind Through the Keyhole
DT: Wolves of the Calla
DT: Song of Susannah
DT: The Dark Tower

Dark Tower-Related:

‘Salem’s Lot
The Eyes of the Dragon
The Stand
Insomnia
From a Buick 8
Hearts in Atlantis
The Talisman
Black House

Castle Rock Novels:

The Dead Zone
Cujo
The Body (novella)
The Dark Half
Needful Things

Derry Novels:

Pet Semetary
It
The Tommyknockers
Bag of Bones
Dreamcatcher

Other Novels:

Carrie
The Shining
Firestarter
Christine
Cycle of the Werewolf
Misery
Gerald’s Game
Dolores Claiborne
Rose Madder
Desperation (companion to The Regulators)
The Green Mile
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Colorado Kid
Cell
Lisey’s Story
Duma Key
Under the Dome
Everything’s Eventual

Richard Bachman:

Rage
The Long Walk
Roadwork
Running Man
Thinner
The Regulators (companion to Desperation)
Blaze

The X-Files

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The X-Files is the story of Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, two FBI agents investigating the paranormal. The show features stand-alone "freak of the week" episodes, as well as a complex overarching mythology about alien visitation and experimentation and a massive government conspiracy to cover up The Truth. The show was that rarest of breeds: a minor sci-fi cult hit that became a major network success. Starting out in the Friday "death slot" on FOX in 1993, The X-Files flew under the radar for its first season, then suddenly exploded in the ratings in its second season. Its combination of creepy, scary stories and anti-government paranoia -- not to mention the great partnership between the leads -- captured the imaginations of millions of loyal X-Philes, and eventually earned the show a marquee time slot on Sunday nights at 9:00 p.m., where it stayed until its conclusion in 2002.

Reviews for Season 2 coming in 2012.

Season One

1.1 The X-Files
1.2 Deep Throat
1.3 Squeeze
1.4 Conduit
1.5 The Jersey Devil
1.6 Shadows
1.7 Ghost in the Machine
1.8 Ice
1.9 Space
1.10 Fallen Angel
1.11 Eve
1.12 Fire
1.13 Beyond the Sea
1.14 GenderBender
1.15 Lazarus
1.16 Young at Heart
1.17 E.B.E.
1.18 Miracle Man
1.19 Shapes
1.20 Darkness Falls
1.21 Tooms
1.22 Born Again
1.23 Roland
1.24 The Erlenmeyer Flask

Season Two

2.1 Little Green Men
2.2 The Host
2.3 Blood
2.4 Sleepless
2.5 Duane Barry
2.6 Ascension
2.7 3
2.8 One Breath
2.9 Firewalker
2.10 Red Museum
2.11 Excelsis Dei
2.12 Aubrey
2.13 Irresistable
2.14 Die Hand der Verletz
2.15 Fresh Bones
2.16 Colony
2.17 End Game
2.18 Fearful Symmetry
2.19 Død Kalm
2.20 Humbug
2.21 The Calusari
2.22 F Emasculata
2.23 Soft Light
2.24 Our Town
2.25 The Anasazi

Season Three

3.1 The Blessing Way
3.2 Paper Clip
3.3 DPO
3.4 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
3.5 The List
3.6 2Shy
3.7 The Walk
3.8 The Oubliette
3.9 Nisei
3.10 731
3.11 Revelations
3.12 War of the Coprophages
3.13 Syzygy
3.14 Grotesque
3.15 Piper Maru
3.16 Apocrypha
3.17 Pusher
3.18 Teso dos Bichos
3.19 Hell Money
3.20 Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'
3.21 Avatar
3.22 Quagmire
3.23 Wetwired
3.24 Talitha Cumi

Season Four

4.1 Herrenvolk
4.2 Unruhe
4.3 Home
4.4 Teliko
4.5 The Field Where I Died
4.6 Sanguinarium
4.7 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
4.8 Paper Hearts
4.9 Tunguska
4.10 Terma
4.11 El Mundo Gira
4.12 Kaddish
4.13 Never Again
4.14 Leonard Betts
4.15 Memento Mori
4.16 Unrequited
4.17 Tempus Fugit
4.18 Max
4.19 Synchrony
4.20 Small Potatoes
4.21 Zero Sum
4.22 Elegy
4.23 Demons
4.24 Gethsemane

Season Five

5.1 Unusual Suspects
5.2 Redux
5.3 Redux II
5.4 Detour
5.5 Christmas Carol
5.6 Post-Modern Prometheus
5.7 Emily
5.8 Kitsunegari
5.9 Schizogeny
5.10 Chinga
5.11 Kill Switch
5.12 Bad Blood
5.13 Patient X
5.14 The Red and the Black
5.15 Travellers
5.16 Mind's Eye
5.17 All Souls
5.18 The Pine Bluff Variant
5.19 Folie a Deux
5.20 The End

Season Six

6.1 The Beginning
6.2 Drive
6.3 Triangle
6.4 Dreamland
6.5 Dreamland II
6.6 Terms of Endearment
6.7 Rain King
6.8 How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
6.9 Tithonus
6.10 SR 819
6.11 Two Fathers
6.12 One Son
6.13 Arcadia
6.14 Agua Mala
6.15 Monday
6.16 Alpha
6.17 Trevor
6.18 Milagro
6.19 Three of a Kind
6.20 The Unnatural
6.21 Field Trip
6.22 Biogenesis

Season Seven

7.1 Hungry
7.2 The Goldberg Variation
7.3 The Sixth Extinction
7.4 The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
7.5 Millennium
7.6 Rush
7.7 Orison
7.8 The Amazing Maleeni
7.9 Signs & Wonders
7.10 Sein Und Zeit
7.11 Closure
7.12 X-Cops
7.13 First Person Shooter
7.14 Theef
7.15 En Ami
7.16 Chimera
7.17 all things
7.18 Hollywood AD
7.19 Brand X
7.20 Fight Club
7.21 Je Souhaite
7.22 Requiem

Season Eight

8.1 Within
8.2 Without
8.3 Redrum
8.4 Patience
8.5 Roadrunners
8.6 Invocation
8.7 Via Negativa
8.8 Per Manum
8.9 Surekill
8.10 Salvage
8.11 The Gift
8.12 Badlaa
8.13 Medusa
8.14 This Is Not Happening
8.15 DeadAlive
8.16 Vienen
8.17 Empedocles
8.18 Three Words
8.19 Alone
8.20 Essence
8.21 Existence

Season Nine

9.1 Nothing Important Happened Today
9.2 Nothing Important Happened Today II
9.3 Dæmonicus
9.4 Hellbound
9.5 4-D
9.6 Lord of the Flies
9.7 John Doe
9.8 Trust No 1
9.9 Underneath
9.10 Provenance
9.11 Providence
9.12 Scary Monsters
9.13 Audrey Pauley
9.14 Improbable
9.15 Jump the Shark
9.16 Release
9.17 William
9.18 Sunshine Days
9.19 The Truth

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Warehouse 13

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Take one part The X-Files, two parts Eureka, add some steampunk touches, and voila! You get Warehouse 13. Secret Service agents Myka Bering and Pete Latimer are tasked with identifying and retrieving dangerous artifacts --- objects imbued with mystical or supernatural powers --- for storage in a vast warehouse hidden in the barren hills of South Dakota. With the able assistance of their cranky supervisor, Artie Nielsen, and his spunky young protégé, Claudia Donovan, Pete and Myka protect the world from a fascinating array of seemingly ordinary items, often preventing disaster of epic proportions.

Season One

1.1 Pilot
1.2 Resonance
1.3 Magnetism
1.4 Claudia
1.5 Elements
1.6 Burnout
1.7 Implosion
1.8 Duped
1.9 Regrets
1.10 Breakdown
1.11 Nevermore
1.12 MacPherson

Season Two

2.1 Time Will Tell
2.2 Mild Mannered
2.3 Beyond Our Control
2.4 Age Before Beauty
2.5 13.1
2.6 Around the Bend
2.7 For the Team
2.8 Merge with Caution
2.9 Vendetta
2.10 Where and When
2.11 Buried
2.12 Reset
2.13 Secret Santa

Season Three

3.1 The New Guy
3.2 Trials
3.3 Love Sick
3.4 Queen for a Day
3.5 3... 2... 1
3.6 Don't Hate the Player
3.7 Past Imperfect
3.8 The 40th Floor
3.9 Shadows
3.10 Insatiable
3.11 Emily Lake
3.12 Stand
3.13 The Greatest Gift

Articles

Warehouse 13 season two part two by Jess Lynde
Warehouse 13 season two part one by Jess Lynde
Warehouse 13 season one post-mortem by Jess Lynde
Warehouse 13 Pilot review by Anthony

Cast

Eddie McClintock (Pete Lattimer)
Joanne Kelly (Myka Bering)
Saul Rubinek (Artie Nielsen)
Genelle Williams (Leena)
Allison Scagliotti (Claudia Donovan)
Simon Reynolds (Daniel Dickenson)
CCH Pounder (Mrs. Irene Frederic)

Wonderfalls

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Wonderfalls is a delightfully quirky comedy series from Bryan Fuller, in which we meet Jaye Tyler, a sarcastic graduate of Brown University who lives in a trailer park and works as a clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop to annoy her über-successful family. In the pilot, Jaye begins receiving cryptic "missions" from inanimate objects that speak to her. The only way to silence the objects is to figure out what the mission is and complete it. Wackiness and hilarity ensue.

Although the premise is incredibly bizarre, Wonderfalls is quite funny and often heartwarming. The cast is extremely talented and appealing, especially Caroline Dhavernas as Jaye. Sadly, the show proved too bizarre for mainstream audiences and FOX pulled it after airing only four episodes in 2004. However, 13 episodes were produced and are available on DVD for your viewing pleasure. Although short-lived, Wonderfalls is a highly enjoyable and satisfying series, and well worth checking out.

Season One

1.1 Wax Lion
1.2 Pink Flamingos
1.3 Karma Chameleon
1.4 Wound-Up Penguin
1.5 Crime Dog
1.6 Muffin Buffalo
1.7 Barrel Bear
1.8 Lovesick Ass
1.9 Safety Canary
1.10 Lying Pig
1.11 Cocktail Bunny
1.12 Totem Mole
1.13 Caged Bird

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The Killing

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The Killing is an American crime drama based on the acclaimed Danish series Forbrydelsen. The first season follows the police investigation into the murder of teenager Rosie Larsen and the many lives that are left shattered as a result. Set in a Seattle where it never, ever stops raining, The Killing is an often dark and tragic show that is as much an emotional character drama as it is a thrilling whodunit.

The Killing has been renewed; there will be a second season. At this time, we are not planning to review it.

Season One

1.1 Pilot
1.2 The Cage (not yet written)
1.3 El Diablo
1.4 A Soundless Echo
1.5 Super 8
1.6 What You Have Left
1.7 Vengeance
1.8 Stonewalled
1.9 Undertow
1.10 I'll Let You Know When I Get There
1.11 Missing
1.12 Beau Soleil
1.13 Oprheus Descending

Cast

Mireille Enos (Sarah Linden)
Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)
Michelle Forbes (Mitch Larsen)
Brent Sexton (Stanley Larsen)
Eric Ladin (Jamie Wright)
Brendan Sexton III (Belko Royce)
Brandon Jay McLaren (Bennett Ahmed)
Seth Isaac Johnson (Denny Larsen)
Bill Campbell (Darren Richmond)
Jamie Anne Allman (Terry)

Veronica Mars

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Veronica Mars (2004-2007) was one of the sharpest, wittiest shows ever to hit the tube. Kristen Bell's Veronica was an extraordinary heroine, like Clarice Starling by way of Nancy Drew and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The other characters, especially her detective father and her emotionally disturbed love interest, were also fascinating and complex. Each episode was a brilliant, well-written mystery that was part of a larger, season-long mystery.

Season one of Veronica Mars was one of the best seasons of television I have ever seen. Season two was also excellent. I suspect that season three's unfortunate, unfocused meandering was the result of the network meddling with a previously winning formula. I was unhappy about the cancellation, and even unhappier with the final episode. I hated seeing such a quality show go out that way.

But don't let that stop you from trying this series. It's definitely worth watching.

Season One

1.1 Pilot
1.2 Credit Where Credit's Due
1.3 Meet John Smith
1.4 The Wrath of Con
1.5 You Think You Know Somebody
1.6 Return of the Kane
1.7 The Girl Next Door
1.8 Like a Virgin
1.9 Drinking the Kool-Aid
1.10 An Echolls Family Christmas
1.11 Silence of the Lamb
1.12 Clash of the Tritons
1.13 Lord of the Bling
1.14 Mars vs. Mars
1.15 Ruskie Business
1.16 Betty and Veronica
1.17 Kanes and Abel's
1.18 Weapons of Class Destruction
1.19 Hot Dogs
1.20 M.A.D.
1.21 A Trip to the Dentist
1.22 Leave it to Beaver

Season Two

2.1 Normal is the Watchword
2.2 Driver Ed
2.3 Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang
2.4 Green-Eyed Monster
2.5 Blast from the Past
2.6 Rat Saw God
2.7 Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner
2.8 Ahoy, Mateys!
2.9 My Mother, the Fiend
2.10 One Angry Veronica
2.11 Donut Run
2.12 Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle
2.13 Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough
2.14 Versatile Toppings
2.15 The Quick and the Wed
2.16 The Rapes of Graff
2.17 Plan B
2.18 I am God
2.19 Nevermind the Buttocks
2.20 Look Who's Stalking
2.21 Happy Go Lucky
2.22 Not Pictured

Season Three

3.1 Welcome Wagon
3.2 My Big Fat Greek Rush Week
3.3 Wichita Linebacker
3.4 Charlie Don't Surf
3.5 President Evil
3.6 Hi, Infidelity
3.7 Of Vice and Men
3.8 Lord of the Pi's
3.9 Spit & Eggs
3.10 Show Me the Monkey
3.11 Poughkeepsie, Tramps & Thieves
3.12 There's Got to Be a Morning After Pill
3.13 Postgame Mortem
3.14 Mars, Bars
3.15 Papa's Cabin
3.16 Un-American Graffiti
3.17 Debasement Tapes
3.18 I'll Know What You'll Do Next Summer
3.19 Weevils Wobble But They Don't Go Down
3.20 The Bitch is Back

Cast

Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars)
Percy Daggs III (Wallace Fennel)
Jason Dohring (Logan Echolls)
Francis Capra (Eli "Weevil" Navarro)
Enrico Colantoni (Keith Mars)
Ryan Hansen (Dick Casablancas)
Teddy Dunn (Duncan Kane)
Michael Muhney (Sheriff Don Lamb)
Tina Majorino (Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie)

Vampire Diaries

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Vampire Diaries News

The Vampire Diaries, based on L.J. Smith's series of books, is about the small town of Mystic Falls. The background is simple: Girl has vampire boyfriend. Vampire boyfriend has snarky vampire brother. Some friends with superpowers, and some friends without. VD started off slow, but by the middle of the first season it suddenly got good--and before I knew it, I was hooked.

The Latest: The Departed


Season One

1.1 Pilot
1.2 The Night of the Comet
1.3 Friday Night Bites
1.4 Family Ties
1.5 You're Undead to Me
1.6 Lost Girls
1.7 Haunted
1.8 162 Candles
1.9 History Repeating
1.10 The Turning Point
1.11 Bloodlines
1.12 Unpleasantville
1.13 Children of the Damned
1.14 Fool Me Once
1.15 A Few Good Men
1.16 There Goes the Neighborhood
1.17 Let the Right One In
1.18 Under Control
1.19 Miss Mystic Falls
1.20 Blood Brothers
1.21 Isobel
1.22 Founder's Day

Season Two

2.1 The Return
2.2 Brave New World
2.3 Bad Moon Rising
2.4 Memory Lane
2.5 Kill or Be Killed
2.6 Plan B
2.7 Masquerade
2.8 Rose
2.9 Katerina
2.10 The Sacrifice
2.11 By the Light of the Moon
2.12 The Descent
2.13 Daddy Issues
2.14 Crying Wolf
2.15 The Dinner Party
2.16 The House Guest
2.17 Know Thy Enemy
2.18 The Last Dance
2.19 Klaus
2.20 The Last Day
2.21 The Sun Also Rises
2.22 As I Lay Dying

Season Three

3.1 The Birthday
3.2 The Hybrid
3.3 The End of the Affair
3.4 Disturbing Behavior
3.5 The Reckoning
3.6 Smells Like Teen Spirit
3.7 Ghost World
3.8 Ordinary People
3.9 Homecoming
3.10 The New Deal
3.11 Our Town
3.12 The Ties That Bind
3.13 Bringing Out the Dead
3.14 Dangerous Liaisons
3.15 All My Children
3.16 1912
3.17 Break on Through
3.18 The Murder of One
3.19 Heart of Darkness
3.20 Do Not Go Gentle
3.21 Before Sunset
3.22 The Departed


Season Four

Coming next fall.

Articles


Discussion: True Blood vs. The Vampire Diaries
Holiday Gift Guide: The Vampire Diaries by Josie Kafka
Why VD Doesn't Suck by Josie Kafka
Vampire Diaries: Pilot by Billie Doux

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Cast

Nina Dobrev (Elena Gilbert)
Paul Wesley (Stefan Salvatore)
Ian Somerhalder (Damon Salvatore)
Steven R. McQueen (Jeremy Gilbert)
Kat Graham (Bonnie Bennett)
Candice Accola (Caroline Forbes)
Zach Roerig (Matt Donovan)
Michael Trevino (Tyler Lockwood)
Matthew Davis (Alaric Saltzman)
Sara Canning (Jenna Sommers)

Doctor Who - The Classic Series

Second Doctor
Third Doctor
Fourth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
Sixth Doctor
Seventh Doctor
Eighth Doctor
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Doctor Who - The Classic Series (1963-1989) chronicles the low budget adventures through time and space of the first eight incarnations of the Doctor, an extraterrestrial mad man with a box, and his ever changing rota of (usually female) companions. The series originally ran for 26 years on the BBC until it was finally cancelled in 1989. It was briefly revived as a TV movie in 1996 before coming back full time in 2005. Despite its cheesy special effects and cardboard sets, Doctor Who has managed to endure for almost half a century thanks to its imaginative and witty scripts, memorable villains and, in the character of the Doctor, the greatest science fiction hero of all time.

Please note: At present, due to the sheer number of missing and incomplete stories, I'm not planning to review the first five seasons (sorry, William Hartnell fans)

You can also find reviews for the current series of Doctor Who (2005 onwards) by Paul Kelly here.

Second Doctor

The Dominators
The Mind Robber
The Invasion
The Krotons
The Seeds of Death
The War Games

Third Doctor

Spearhead from Space
The Silurians
The Ambassadors of Death
Inferno
Terror of the Autons
The Mind of Evil
The Claws of Axos
Colony in Space
The Dæmons
Day of the Daleks
The Curse of Peladon
The Sea Devils
The Mutants
The Time Monster
The Three Doctors
Carnival of Monsters
Frontier in Space
Planet of the Daleks
The Green Death
The Time Warrior
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Death to the Daleks
The Monster of Peladon
Planet of the Spiders

Fourth Doctor

Robot
The Ark in Space
The Sontaran Experiment
Genesis of the Daleks
Revenge of the Cybermen
Terror of the Zygons
Planet of Evil
Pyramids of Mars
The Android Invasion
The Brain of Morbius
The Seeds of Doom
The Masque of Mandragora
The Hand of Fear
The Deadly Assassin
The Face of Evil
The Robots of Death
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Horror of Fang Rock
The Invisible Enemy
Image of the Fendahl
The Sun Makers
Underworld
The Invasion of Time
The Key to Time Part One: The Ribos Operation
The Key to Time Part Two: The Pirate Planet
The Key to Time Part Three: The Stones of Blood
The Key to Time Part Four: The Androids of Tara
The Key to Time Part Five: The Power of Kroll
The Key to Time Part Six: The Armageddon Factor
Destiny of the Daleks
City of Death
The Creature from the Pit
Nightmare of Eden
The Horns of the Nimon
Shada
The Leisure Hive
Meglos
Full Circle
State of Decay
Warrior's Gate
The Keeper of Traken
Logopolis

Fifth Doctor

Castrovalva
Four to Doomsday
Kinda
The Visitation
Black Orchid
Earthshock
Time-Flight
Arc of Infinity
Snakedance
Mawdryn Undead
Terminus
Enlightment
The King's Demons
The Five Doctors
Warriors of the Deep
The Awakening
Frontios
Resurrection of the Daleks
Planet of Fire
The Caves of Androzani

Sixth Doctor

The Twin Dilemma
Attack of the Cybermen
Vengeance on Varos
The Mark of the Rani
The Two Doctors
Timelash
Revelation of the Daleks
The Trial of a Time Lord Part One: The Mysterious Planet
The Trial of a Time Lord Part Two: Mindwarp
The Trial of a Time Lord Part Three: Terror of the Veroids
The Trial of a Time Lord Part Four: The Ultimate Foe

Seventh Doctor

Time and the Rani
Paradise Towers
Delta and the Bannerman
Dragonfire
Remembrance of the Daleks
The Happiness Patrol
Silver Nemesis
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Battlefield
Ghost Light
The Curse of Fenric
Survival

Eighth Doctor

TV Movie

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Game of Thrones

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Articles | Cast |

Game of Thrones is based on George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series of medieval-esque fantasy novels. The novels (five so far, with two more in the works) are absorbing and fast-paced, with great characters, impressive world-building, and an exciting willingness to take risks. The HBO series is even better.

New: A Game of Thrones Books vs. Show discussion thread

Season One

1.1 Winter Is Coming
1.2 The Kingsroad
1.3 Lord Snow
1.4 Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things
1.5 The Wolf and the Lion
1.6 A Golden Crown
1.7 You Win or You Die
1.8 The Pointy End
1.9 Baelor
1.10 Fire and Blood

Season Two

2.1 The North Remembers
2.2 The Night Lands
2.3 What is Dead May Never Die
2.4 Garden of Bones
2.5 The Ghost of Harrenhal
2.6 The Old Gods and the New
2.7 A Man Without Honor
2.8 The Prince of Winterfell (for readers of the books)
2.8 The Prince of Winterfell (for people who have not read the books)
2.9 Blackwater

Articles

Game of Thrones Season Two Countdown
Game of Thrones Season One: Reviewer Melee
Not-A-Review of A Dance With Dragons (in which Josie tries work through her issues about the book but fails to review it)

Cast

Sean Bean (Eddard Stark)
Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark)
Richard Madden (Robb Stark)
Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark)
Maisie Williams (Arya Stark)
Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran Stark)
Art Parkinson (Rickon Stark)
Kit Harington (John Snow)
Alfie Owen-Allen (Theon Greyjoy)
Mark Addy (Robert Baratheon)
Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon)
Aimee Richardson (Myrcella Baratheon)
Callum Wharry (Tommen Baratheon)
Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister)
Charles Dane (Tywin Lannister)
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister)
Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister)
Rory McCann (Sandor Clegane)
Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen)
Harry Lloyd (Viserys Targaryen)
Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo)
Iain Glenn (Jorah Mormont)

True Blood

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Season 3 | Season 4 |
Season 5 | Articles |
Book Reviews | Cast |

True Blood is a series based on the delightful Southern Vampire books by Charlaine Harris. It's about a mind-reading cocktail waitress named Sookie Stackhouse, who lives in a world where vampires have recently "come out of the coffin" and are trying to integrate into human society. Produced by Alan Ball, who is probably best known for Six Feet Under, True Blood runs in the summer on HBO.

Season One

1.1 Strange Love
1.2 The First Taste
1.3 Mine
1.4 Escape from Dragon House
1.5 Sparks Fly Out
1.6 Cold Ground
1.7 Burning House of Love
1.8 The Fourth Man in the Fire
1.9 Plaisir d'Amour
1.10 I Don't Wanna Know
1.11 To Love is to Bury
1.12 You'll Be the Death of Me

Season Two

2.1 Nothing But the Blood
2.2 Keep This Party Going
2.3 Scratches
2.4 Shake and Fingerpop
2.5 Never Let Me Go
2.6 Hard-Hearted Hannah
2.7 Release Me
2.8 Timebomb
2.9 I Will Rise Up
2.10 New World in My View
2.11 Frenzy
2.12 Beyond Here Lies Nothin'

Season Three

3.1 Bad Blood
3.2 Beautifully Broken
3.3 It Hurts Me Too
3.4 9 Crimes
3.5 Trouble
3.6 I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
3.7 Hitting the Ground
3.8 Night on the Sun
3.9 Everything is Broken
3.10 I Smell a Rat
3.11 Fresh Blood
3.12 Evil Is Going On

Season Four

4.1 She's Not There
4.2 You Smell Like Dinner
4.3 If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin'?
4.4 I'm Alive and On Fire
4.5 Me and the Devil
4.6 I Wish I Was the Moon
4.7 The Cold Grey Light of Dawn
4.8 Spellbound
4.9 Let's Get Out of Here
4.10 Burning Down the House
4.11 Soul of Fire
4.12 And When I Die

Season Five

Coming this summer, 2012.

Articles

Discussion: True Blood vs. The Vampire Diaries
True Blood poll results: Yes, it's all about Eric

Book Reviews

Sookie 1: Dead Until Dark
Sookie 2: Living Dead in Dallas
Sookie 3: Club Dead
Sookie 4: Dead to the World
Sookie 5: Dead as a Doornail
Sookie 6: Definitely Dead
Sookie 7: All Together Dead
Sookie 8: From Dead to Worse
Sookie 9: Dead and Gone
Sookie 10: Dead in the Family
Sookie 11: Dead Reckoning
Sookie 12: Deadlocked
The Sookie Stackhouse Series
Sookie short stories: A Touch of Dead

Cast

Anna Paquin (Sookie Stackhouse)
Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton)
Alexander Skarsgard (Eric Northman)
Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte)
Ryan Kwanten (Jason Stackhouse)
Rutina Wesley (Tara Thornton)
Chris Bauer (Andy Bellefleur)
Nelsan Ellis (Lafayette Reynolds)
William Sanderson (Sheriff Dearborne)
Jim Parrack (Hoyt Fortenberry)
Carrie Preston (Arlene Fowler)
Todd Lowe (Terry Bellefleur)
Deborah Ann Woll (Jessica Hamby)
Kristin Bauer (Pam)
Marshall Allman (Tommy Mickens)
Lindsay Pulsipher (Crystal Norris)
Mariana Klaveno (Lorena)
Lois Smith (Adele Stackhouse)
Joe Manganiello (Alcide Herveaux)

Torchwood

Season 1 | Season 2 |
Children of Earth |
Miracle Day |
Cast

Torchwood (2006-2011) is a spinoff of the iconic Doctor Who that was intended to be (and is) sexier, more adult, and literally down to Earth. It's about an elite, secret task force that investigates alien activity, led by the rather amazing omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman). Torchwood is the reason I finally started watching Doctor Who. That's the cart before the horse in a great big way, isn't it? That also means that I don't have years of Doctor Who behind me to add history and context to my Torchwood reviews. But I did them, anyway.

Torchwood ran for two seasons and two miniseries, Children of Earth and Miracle Day. Although there has been no official announcement, it is unlikely that there will be more Torchwood. Although you never can tell.

Season One

1.1 Everything Changes
1.2 Day One
1.3 Ghost Machine
1.4 Cyberwoman
1.5 Small Worlds
1.6 Countrycide
1.7 Greeks Bearing Gifts
1.8 They Keep Killing Suzie
1.9 Random Shoes
1.10 Out of Time
1.11 Combat
1.12 Captain Jack Harkness
1.13 End of Days

Season Two

2.1 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
2.2 Sleeper
2.3 To the Last Man
2.4 Meat
2.5 Adam
2.6 Reset
2.7 Dead Man Walking
2.8 A Day in the Death
2.9 Something Borrowed
2.10 From Out of the Rain
2.11 Adrift
2.12 Fragments
2.13 Exit Wounds

Season Three: Children of Earth

Reviews by Billie Doux
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five

Reviews by Paul Kelly
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five

Season Four: Miracle Day

4.1 The New World
4.2 Rendition
4.3 Dead of Night
4.4 Escape to LA
4.5 The Categories of Life
4.6 The Middle Men
4.7 Immortal Sins
4.8 End of the Road
4.9 The Gathering
4.10 The Blood Line

Doctor Who/Torchwood/Sarah Jane Adventures Crossover Guide by Paul Kelly

Cast

John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness)
Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper)
Kai Owen (Rhys Williams)
Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones)
Burn Gorman (Owen Harper)
Naoko Mori (Toshiko Sato)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Season 1 | Season 2 |
Movie Reviews & Articles |
Cast

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009) was an attempt to reboot the Terminator franchise in a series format. The show picks up in 1999, several years after the events of T2 and tells the continuing story of the Connors' fight to prevent Judgment Day. As the title suggests, the initial emphasis is on Sarah Connor, the soft, doughy waitress who turned into one of the ultimate ass-kicking film heroines. Over the course of the show's short run, it gradually becomes the story of the entire Connor crew, including John; his latest cyborg protector, a smoking hot young woman named Cameron; and John's uncle, Derek, a hard, battle-weary soldier from the future.

T:TSCC takes the franchise in some fascinating new directions in terms of plot, pacing, and focus. The show generally favors a slow-burning, introspective style of storytelling that allows the writers to explore the psychological and emotional fallout from the war with Skynet. Although this slower pace didn't sit well with many in the franchise's fanbase, it allowed for a deeper, more satisfying story with nuanced performances and great emotional payoff. Plus, the show still features fantastic, hard-hitting action sequences worthy of its movie forebears. All in all, a great, if short-lived, addition to the Terminator universe.

Season One

1.1 Pilot
1.2 Gnothi Seauton
1.3 The Turk
1.4 Heavy Metal
1.5 Queen's Gambit
1.6 Dungeons & Dragons
1.7 The Demon Hand
1.8 Vick's Chip
1.9 What He Beheld

Season Two

2.1 Samson and Delilah
2.2 Automatic for the People
2.3 The Mousetrap
2.4 Allison from Palmdale
2.5 Goodbye To All That
2.6 The Tower is Tall but the Fall is Short
2.7 Brothers of Nablus
2.8 Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today
2.9 Complications
2.10 Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point
2.11 Self-Made Man
2.12 Alpine Fields
2.13 Earthlings Welcome Here
2.14 The Good Wound
2.15 Desert Cantos
2.16 Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep
2.17 Ourselves Alone
2.18 Today is the Day (1)
2.19 Today is the Day (2)
2.20 To the Lighthouse
2.21 Adam Raised a Cain
2.22 Born to Run

Movie Reviews

Terminator by Billie Doux
Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Billie Doux
Terminator: Salvation by Jess Lynde

Articles

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles by Billie Doux

Cast

Lena Headey (Sarah Connor)
Thomas Dekker (John Connor)
Summer Glau (Cameron Phillips)
Richard T. Jones (James Ellison)
Brian Austin Green (Derek Reese)
Garret Dillahunt (Cromartie)
Shirley Manson (Catherine Weaver)

Falling Skies

Season 1 | Season 2 |
Articles | Cast

Season One

1.1 Live and Learn
1.2 The Armory
1.3 Prisoner of War
1.4 Grace
1.5 Silent Kill
1.6 Sanctuary (1)
1.7 Sanctuary (2)
1.8 What Hides Beneath
1.9 Mutiny
1.10 Eight Hours

Season Two

Coming this summer, 2012.

Articles

Review of the two part series premiere by Billie Doux

Cast

Noah Wyle (Tom Mason)
Moon Bloodgood (Anne Glass)
Drew Roy (Hal Mason)
Seychelle Gabriel (Lourdes)
Peter Shinkoda (Dai)
Will Patton (Captain Weaver)
Mpho Koaho (Anthony)
Colin Cunningham (John Pope)
Connor Jessup (Ben Mason)
Maxim Knight (Matt Mason)
Sarah Carter (Margaret)

Supernatural

Season 1 | Season 2 |
Season 3 | Season 4 |
Season 5 | Season 6 |
Season 7 | Season 8 |
Articles | Cast |
Supernatural News

The Winchester brothers live on the road and hunt things that go bump in the night. Yes, it's about two brash young men fighting monsters, but Supernatural got really good... and then it got even better. A quality show with a complex mythology, Supernatural is scary, funny, clever and dark, daring and often unpredictable. It's also my favorite currently running series, and probably the best kept secret on television.

Season One

1.1 Pilot
1.2 Wendigo
1.3 Dead in the Water
1.4 Phantom Traveler
1.5 Bloody Mary
1.6 Skin
1.7 Hook Man
1.8 Bugs
1.9 Home
1.10 Asylum
1.11 Scarecrow
1.12 Faith
1.13 Route 666
1.14 Nightmare
1.15 The Benders
1.16 Shadow
1.17 Hell House
1.18 Something Wicked
1.19 Provenance
1.20 Dead Man's Blood
1.21 Salvation
1.22 Devil's Trap

Season Two

2.1 In My Time of Dying
2.2 Everybody Loves a Clown
2.3 Bloodlust
2.4 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
2.5 Simon Said
2.6 No Exit
2.7 The Usual Suspects
2.8 Crossroad Blues
2.9 Croatoan
2.10 Hunted
2.11 Playthings
2.12 Nightshifter
2.13 Houses of the Holy
2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign
2.15 Tall Tales
2.16 Roadkill
2.17 Heart
2.18 Hollywood Babylon
2.19 Folsom Prison Blues
2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be
2.21 All Hell Breaks Loose (1)
2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose (2)

Season Three

3.1 The Magnificent Seven
3.2 The Kids are Alright
3.3 Bad Day at Black Rock
3.4 Sin City
3.5 Bedtime Stories
3.6 Red Sky at Morning
3.7 Fresh Blood
3.8 A Very Supernatural Christmas
3.9 Malleus Maleficarum
3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me
3.11 Mystery Spot
3.12 Jus in Bello
3.13 Ghostfacers
3.14 Long Distance Call
3.15 Time is On My Side
3.16 No Rest for the Wicked

Season Four

4.1 Lazarus Rising
4.2 Are you there, God? It's me, Dean Winchester
4.3 In the Beginning
4.4 Metamorphosis
4.5 Monster Movie
4.6 Yellow Fever
4.7 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
4.8 Wishful Thinking
4.9 I Know What You Did Last Summer
4.10 Heaven and Hell
4.11 Family Remains
4.12 Criss Angel is a Douche Bag
4.13 After School Special
4.14 Sex and Violence
4.15 Death Takes a Holiday
4.16 On the Head of a Pin
4.17 It's a Terrible Life
4.18 The Monster at the End of this Book
4.19 Jump the Shark
4.20 The Rapture
4.21 When the Levee Breaks
4.22 Lucifer Rising

Season Five

5.1 Sympathy for the Devil
5.2 Good God, Y'all
5.3 Free to Be You and Me
5.4 The End
5.5 Fallen Idols
5.6 I Believe the Children are our Future
5.7 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester
5.8 Changing Channels
5.9 The Real Ghostbusters
5.10 Abandon All Hope
5.11 Sam, Interrupted
5.12 Swap Meat
5.13 The Song Remains the Same
5.14 My Bloody Valentine
5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
5.16 Dark Side of the Moon
5.17 99 Problems
5.18 Point of No Return
5.19 Hammer of the Gods
5.20 The Devil You Know
5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight
5.22 Swan Song

Season Six

6.1 Exile on Main Street
6.2 Two and a Half Men
6.3 The Third Man
6.4 Weekend at Bobby's
6.5 Live Free or Twi-Hard
6.6 You Can't Handle the Truth
6.7 Family Matters
6.8 All Dogs Go To Heaven
6.9 Clap Your Hands If You Believe...
6.10 Caged Heat
6.11 Appointment in Samarra
6.12 Like a Virgin
6.13 Unforgiven
6.14 Mannequin 3: The Reckoning
6.15 The French Mistake
6.16 ...And Then There Were None
6.17 My Heart Will Go On
6.18 Frontierland
6.19 Mommy Dearest
6.20 The Man Who Would Be King
6.21 Let It Bleed
6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much

Season Seven

7.1 Meet the New Boss
7.2 Hello, Cruel World
7.3 The Girl Next Door
7.4 Defending Your Life
7.5 Shut Up, Dr. Phil
7.6 Slash Fiction
7.7 The Mentalists
7.8 Season 7, Time for a Wedding!
7.9 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters
7.10 Death's Door
7.11 Adventures in Babysitting
7.12 Time After Time
7.13 The Slice Girls
7.14 Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie
7.15 Repo Man
7.16 Out With the Old
7.17 The Born-Again Identity
7.18 Party On, Garth
7.19 Of Grave Importance
7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo
7.21 Reading is Fundamental
7.22 There Will Be Blood
7.23 Survival of the Fittest

Season Eight

Coming this fall, 2012.

Articles

Supernatural honored AND snubbed at the People's Choice Awards
Holiday Gift Guide: Supernatural
Supernatural on the cover of TV Guide
Supernatural: sort of like Ghostbusters, with hunks

Cast

Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester)
Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester)
Misha Collins (Castiel)
Jim Beaver (Bobby Singer)