Category: V

I admit it’s an odd thing for me to review the V pilot so long after ABC cancelled the series. On the one hand,…

As with many network television shows, the second episode of V works much like a supplementary pilot, but the writers avoid the usual redundancies…

With their two-part introduction out of the way, the show runners give us a taste of what a typical V episode ought to be…

The final episode prior to an extended hiatus, “It’s Only the Beginning” isn’t meant to further the season arc (which it does) so much…

Back in high school, I had this misunderstood friend (let’s call her Sally) who wasn’t the most popular girl in our grade but whom I liked because she had smarts and purpose. Sally went away one summer

Let’s face it. The sci-fi series I and apparently six other people enjoyed last fall is gone, and it’s time to move on. First, though, I want to get something off my chest

I’m ambivalent about this one. On the one hand, the new mythology is starting to show promise and even hints at coherence. The notion the Visitors’ skin suits are responsible for their newfound gooey feelings, for example

Now this is more like it. “We Can’t Win” delivers everything I’d come to expect from the series but wasn’t getting anymore: mildly satirical political intrigue, heroes who think beyond

If I might digress for a moment about another extraterrestrial property, by which, of course, I mean a franchise with a different E.T. and not interplanetary real estate

“Which do you want to be: the guy who gets knocked down or the guy who gets back up?” The thing Kyle doesn’t seem to understand about his own story is