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Showing posts with label Gina Torres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gina Torres. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 October 2018

Angel: Peace Out

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"I know she's a lie!" And so the whole Jasmine storyline ends, suddenly. It works, it’s a good piece of telly, but you can s...
Thursday, 18 October 2018

Angel: Sacrifice

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"Anyone else feel like the last feisty wife in Stepford?" Last episode showed us life under Jasmine. This episode develops it a ...
Friday, 12 October 2018

Angel: The Magic Bullet

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"I've been so alone, so scared. I'm not like you. I'm not a champion." The first few minutes of this episode are dee...
Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Angel: Shiny Happy People

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"Even before you were born, I chose you to be my father." Just as with two seasons ago, with the adventures on Pylea, the status...
Monday, 1 October 2018

Angel: Inside Out

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"Guy steps out for a few hours, half the place goes supervillain." This episode is about as much a game changer as it’s possible...
Saturday, 19 November 2011

Serenity (2005)

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“If anything happens to her, anything at all… I swear to you, I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.” The wo...
Monday, 14 November 2011

Firefly: Objects in Space

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“Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.” “You live on a spaceship, dear.” So that’s it. The end. It’s ...
Sunday, 13 November 2011

Firefly: Heart of Gold

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“So I trucked out to the border, learned to say ‘ain’t’, came to find work.” Yes, this is another great episode, but we’ve come...
Friday, 11 November 2011

Firefly: The Message

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“You are such a boob.” Another good one, this, although not one to particularly stand out in such exalted company. There’s a nice ...
Thursday, 10 November 2011

Firefly: Trash

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“I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!” Bloody Hell, another great episode. They just keep on coming, don’t they? This had e...
Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Firefly: War Stories

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“Preacher, don’t the Bible have some specific things to say about killing?” “Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy abo...
Monday, 7 November 2011

Firefly: Ariel

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“Next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.” At last we get a proper, full-on arc episode. Gr...
Sunday, 6 November 2011

Firefly: Out of Gas

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“Mal, you don’t have to die alone.” “Everybody dies alone.” This sort of episode is pretty much obligatory for any genre se...
Thursday, 3 November 2011

Firefly: Jaynestown

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“You guys had a riot on account of me?” It’s an odd one, this. It’s funny, the conceit is brilliant, there’s some great charact...
Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Firefly: Our Mrs. Reynolds

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“If you take sexual advantage of her, you’re going to burn in a very special level of Hell. A level they reserve for child molester...
Sunday, 30 October 2011

Firefly: Safe

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“Dear Diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Then I got kidnapped by hill folks, never to be seen again. It was the best ...

Firefly: Shindig

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“You think you’re better than other people.” “Just the ones I’m better than.” Our first episode written by Jane Espenson begins in a way...
Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Firefly: Bushwhacked

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“Couldn’t let us profit. Wouldn’t be civilised.” We hear the word “civilised” a lot here, in different contexts- it’s certainly...
Monday, 24 October 2011

Firefly: The Train Job

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“Take us out of the World, Wash. We got us some crime to be done.” I have a vague idea of the story behind this episode: of how Fo...
Monday, 17 October 2011

Firefly: Serenity

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“We are just too pretty for God to let us die.” I must admit, I wouldn’t have decided to watch this on a weekday if I’d remembered...