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Borgen: Season One
Adam Price’s impeccable Danish political TV series, Borgen (The Castle), is an incredible ride into Danish politics and is sure to please fans of The West Wing and David Fincher’s version of House of Cards. The series follows the rise of Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) as the leader of the Moderate Party, who becomes [...]
Thorne
David Morrissey stars in this 2010 series from U.K.’s Sky1 as Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, your average, tortured, loner detective who rarely, if ever, plays by the books– average except that he’s played by David Morrissey, that is. The first (and thus far, only) series of Thorne, adapted from the first two novels by Mark [...]
Street Sharks: The Complete Series
Street Sharks ran for but two seasons (three if you consider the three-episode mini-series that started it all a season unto itself) in 1994 and 1995. It didn’t have the overwhelming cultural impact that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, to which it owes its entire existence, had, and the merchandise it was intended to market wasn’t [...]
Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad: Volume 1
Airing for one season from 1994-95, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad was a decidedly transparent and cheap attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. The series was produced according to that distinctly ‘80s model of children’s television production where the demands of promoting a toy line took precedence over the creation of [...]
Game of Thrones: Season Two
Easily one of the greatest cable television shows of all time, Game of Thrones is a prime example of a fantasy series done right. Sprung from the mind of George R.R. Martin and his novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones is a true tour de force, with its incredible cast, [...]
Baka & Test: Summon the Beasts (OVA Collection)
In my previous review of Baka & Test: Season Two, I raised a number of complaints about that particular season, but I had failed to mention therein two complaints I had about the season that did not make it in to the review as they then seemed petty, but are now relevant. There were notable [...]
Emma: A Victorian Romance Season One
Emma: A Victorian Romance is a sweet, languid romantic story of class-crossed lovers in London. In Victorian England the idea of a maid and an heir to a business fortune falling in love was just not allowed. For Emma and William Jones, they have to figure out if they are willing to go against society [...]
Toriko: Part Two
When I first heard about Toriko, I swore I’d have none of it. There was no way it could possibly work. I’d only be wasting my time. I mean, a fighting anime centered on food? That’s a bit of a stretch. Yet, here I am reviewing the second collection of the series released by FUNimation [...]
Toriko: Part One
The culinary arts have been explored in anime and manga for years, but no anime or manga has ever managed to inject the same testosterone fueled madness of Dragon Ball Z or Fist of the North Star into cuisine, until Toriko. Serialized in Shonen Jump, Misutoshi Shimabukuro’s Toriko explores a world where cuisine is king and people wish to eat rare and exotic ingredients, [...]
Baka & Test: Summon the Beasts (Season Two)
When FUNimation released Baka & Test: Season One in 2011, the second season of the series was only just then airing in Japan. Given the breakneck pace at which I plowed through the first season and the high praise I heaped upon those 13 episodes and FUNimation’s Blu-ray/DVD release of them, you can imagine how [...]
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