Melted BrainIn light of last night’s midseason return, things seem to be looking up for FlashForward. At least I hope so. I remember the pilot episode being similarly promising and then having that promise dwindle into a fond memory. Hopefully FlashForward is going to break the cycle of painful monotony that characterized the first half of [...]
It hurts me to say this, but I was incredibly disappointed with this episode. There were a precious few moments that I genuinely enjoyed (and, more importantly, approved of from an analytical standpoint), but otherwise the whole of “Playing Cards With Coyote” ranged from painfully overworked to horrible cliched. I’ll start with the parts that [...]
I did not get what I wanted out of this episode, – namely, some actual development of the whole Simon situation – so I’d almost like to say that I was disappointed. But the truth is, this was a pretty phenomenal episode without it. The ‘intense’ Benford family drama was (thankfully) sidelined for the majority [...]
(Welcome to “Instant Replay,” the shiny new review feature for FlashForward. This means that a) Heroes’ future is looking dire so I need to start looking in another direction in terms of quality reviewing venues and b) Reaction Time is now not the only review feature and c) this might push me to review FlashForward [...]
