By Lynn Tackitt
ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars, based on the popular books by Sara Shepard, is a guilty pleasure for a lot of women who tune in week after week. They tune in to see who is tormenting the four friends who all hold one big secret and a whole bunch of their own. Who is the mysterious person who seems to know all their secrets, knows what they are doing all the time, and leaves them notes and texts with just a signature of “A?”
As the weeks have unfolded this season, the girls have gotten closer and closer to the one and only “A.”
We met up with Janel Parrish, who plays Mona, as she discusses this season's twists and turns and reveals some of the plot line of who “A” really is. It might just leave you with a shock that you never saw coming.
ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars, based on the popular books by Sara Shepard, is a guilty pleasure for a lot of women who tune in week after week. They tune in to see who is tormenting the four friends who all hold one big secret and a whole bunch of their own. Who is the mysterious person who seems to know all their secrets, knows what they are doing all the time, and leaves them notes and texts with just a signature of “A?”As the weeks have unfolded this season, the girls have gotten closer and closer to the one and only “A.”
We met up with Janel Parrish, who plays Mona, as she discusses this season's twists and turns and reveals some of the plot line of who “A” really is. It might just leave you with a shock that you never saw coming.
By Karen Moul
The new NBC series Awake follows the life of Detective Michael Britten, played by Jason Isaacs, who was recently in a car accident where either his wife Hannah or his son Rex died, and now lives in two realities. In one (the green reality), his son survived. When he wakes up in the other (the red reality) Hannah is alive. The problem is, he doesn't know which is real and which is a dream.
I enjoyed this episode for its steady, well-paced flow between a myriad of scenes. "The Good Wife" tends to do this on a regular basis, but here, there seemed to be a confidence emanating from the material that was particularly standout. The overall story may not draw much interest, as Lockhart and Associates argue first over a wrongful death lawsuit, then brain trauma from sports injuries, but there is enough on the fringes to compensate for that. There's so much happening in the space of an hour that it's hard to keep track.
Recently Syfy premiered it's newest original docuseries Monster Man, which airs Wednesday nights. The series takes you behind the scenes of the practical special effects workshop SOTA FX. The team consists of Cleve Hall and his family, including his daughters Constance and Elora Hall, and his ex-wife Sonja Maddox-Hall. Cleve is aslo joined by his best friends Roy Knyrim, who also happens to be his boss, and Johnny Saiko, as well as office manager Cindy Miller.
“The River” turned out to be a show that was much better than it had any business being, given the questionable nature of the production style and the pedigree of the production staff. When the story was less about vague supernatural threats, and more about the characters, it improved tremendously. Even so, it’s such an uneven production that I had no idea what to expect from the finale.
There was never any doubt that Hershel's farm would eventually fall to an outside threat, but it was a bit of a surprise that that outside threat ended up being the Walkers. For a while there, I had started to fully expect that Randall's group would be the ones to descend on the farm. In some ways, that might have been more interesting. But I suppose the zombie threat has been a bit underplayed this season, so it makes sense to bring them back in full force to cap off the season.
Talk about bad timing. Sally’s possession by her own Reaper persona takes place at the worst possible time, as Josh is about to turn during the full moon and Aidan needs a fix of human blood. For Sally’s part, she has fallen into that beloved trope of an internal fantasy world, as the Reaper personality seeks to keep her Sally personality happy and distracted.
The formula of "Lost Girl" is starting to show the tell-tale signs of wear and tear around the edges, in that way most shows do by the time they hit double digits. Nonetheless, the writers are still good at breathing life into things and there's plenty of character and mythology ground to be covered, as "The Mourning After" demonstrates aptly by following up on the most intriguing threads of previous stories.
If not for the emotional components that hooked viewers, this latest episode of "Awake" would be a little ordinary. I mean, I understand giving a backstory for Michael to connect to Rex's abduction, but the resolution is too obvious. If you didn't see that it was his former partner who was behind everything, then you haven't been watching many police procedurals over the years.