The Stand (1994) – The Betrayal

After a night off, Th Stand miniseries resumed on 11 May, 1994. Mick Garris directed, and Stephen King wrote the teleplay from his huge novel. All the pieces are on the field, and now things begin to move and shift, and of course, with a title like The Betrayal, we know something bad will happen…

Taken (2002) – Charlie and Lisa

Leslie Bohem’s UFO epic continued with its sixth episode on 9 December, 2002. It opens with the aliens arriving in a ship to reclaim the crashed vehicle from the Roswell crash over a bridge with both the Crawfords and the Clarkes as witnesses, amongst others, military and civilian. The climax of the last episode. Eric…

Smallville (2002) – Rogue, and Shimmer

Rogue debuted on 15 January, 2002. It was written by Mark Verheiden. This time, it looks like Clark (Tom Welling) is in some real trouble, cause there’s nothing worse than a dirty cop. In this case it’s Sam Phelan (Cameron Dye) who stumbles onto Clark’s secret. Phelan attempts to blackmail Clark into stealing some internal…

Farscape (2003) – Mental as Anything, and Bringing Home the Beacon

Mark Saraceni pens Mental as Anything, which first debuted on 20 January, 2003. We get a wrap-up of D’Argo’s (Anthony Simcoe) series long quest to bring justice to his wife’s murderer. But it doesn’t quite work as well as it should, and definitely doesn’t feel quite as epic as it should. D’Argo, Crichton (Ben Browder),…

The Gray Man (2022) – Joe and Anthony Russo

The Russo Brothers, who made an indelible print on the MCU, gather a fun cast to deliver a fast-paced action film that features fantastic kinetic camera work, but is held back by some cardboard characters. Six (Ryan Gosling) is a career criminal that gets recruited by a CIA handler, Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton). He’s incredibly…