Posts Tagged‘tv reviews’

Warehouse 13: “Time Will Tell”

Overlords 13 Warehouse 13 Syfy Channel, Tuesdays, 9/7 c “Time Will Tell” Written by Jack Kenny Directed by Stephen Surjik “I supplied the ideas, the research, the stories. He supplied the mustache.” —H.G. Wells Let’s see if I have this straight. We have a bunch of agents who work for the government, but who snatch people they think may someday commit a crime, have them flash-frozen, bronzed, and kept fully aware yet paralyzed for centuries. No trial. No habeas corpus. No actual crime committed. No recourse. Just lock some innocent person in their own personal solitary confinement forever, just because you think they might,…

Warehouse 13: “Beyond Our Control”

As Seen on TV Warehouse 13 Syfy Channel, Tuesdays, 9/7 c “Beyond Our Control” Written by Daniel Simkins Directed by Constantine Makris “I haven’t been benign since 1957.” —Artie I didn’t think anything could top last week’s comic-book based episode, until I watched this irrepressible homage to the B-movies dear to every geek. A local television station is broadcasting a “film festival”, showing the entire oeuvre of B-movie actor Raymond St. James (Philip Winchester,Crusoe), in the Warehouse’s own backyard. This is causing very strange frequency interference with the Farnsworth communication machines, but worse, it is causing scenes from the movie…