Wolf Cubs Teen Wolf MTV, Mondays, 6 PM “Wolf Moon” Written by Jeff Davis & Jeph Loeb & Matthew Weisman Screenplay by Jeph Loeb & Matthew Weisman Directed by Russell Mulcahy “Second Chance at a First Line” Written by Jeff Davis Directed by Russell Mulcahy “Pack Mentality” Written by Jeff Vlaming Directed by Russell Mulcahy “All this started with a bite.” – Stiles The newsworthy thing about this new series from MTV is that it unashamedly strips down the werewolf legend into its psychosexual foundation: puberty. Think about it: nearly all cinema werewolves are young males. They don’t want to…
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Strange World: “Lullaby”
Birthing Pangs by Sarah Stegall copyright 1999 by Sarah Stegall “Lullaby” written by Tim Minear directed by Joseph Scanlan Dr. Paul Turner’s mission is to combat “criminal abuses of science”, which makes him sound rather like a modern version of Captain America. This could easily turn into farce, with the cardboard bad guys and tinsel good guys of your average medical or legal drama. Fortunately, this is not going to happen as long as the producers and writers of “Strange World”, ABC’s new science fiction drama, keep tossing ambiguous story lines at us, like last Tuesday’s “Lullaby”. It’s easy to…