Shadow Boxing Haven Syfy, Fridays, 9/10 PM “Ain’t No Sunshine” Written by Sam Ernst Directed by Ken Girotti “Let’s get to work looking for a tall, short, thin, wide dark man who may or may not be carrying a sword.” – Nathan I remember the moment I got hooked on The X-Files. It wasn’t the first episode I watched, but it was the first episode where the acting and writing and directing all came together to create that special frisson that went down my spine, to create that bond between the characters that I knew would hold through the adventures to…
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Haven: “As You Were”
We Are Not Who We Are Haven Syfy, Fridays, 9/10 PM “As You Were” Written by Jose Molina Directed by Rob Lieberman “Do you trust me?” —Nathan Boy, how I love a good house-party story—a bunch of folks stuck in a remote house, preferably large and creepy, with a killer among them. Agatha Christie refined the idea with And Then There Were None, about a bunch of people stuck on an island, being killed off one by one. Harper’s Island reprised that theme recently. John W. Campbell’s seminal 1938 novella, “Who Goes There?”, added a shapechanger to raise the paranoia level, and became…