Posts Tagged‘tv reviews’

Sanctuary: “Fata Morgana”

Three Rings for the Elves? By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Sanctuary Fridays at 10/9 C on SciFi Channel “Fata Morgana” Story by Damian Kindler & Martin Wood; Teleplay by Damian Kindler Directed by Martin Wood “When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” Macbeth (I, i, 1-2) Does anyone else wonder about the ethics of someone just waltzing into a foreign country and “acquiring” three of its citizens (comatose citizens, no less, who can’t fight back)? And all this in pursuit of an elixir for immortality that the world has to be protected from?…

Reaper: “Pilot”

The Devil Made Me Do It Reaper Tuesdays, 9/10 CW network “Pilot” Written by Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas Directed by Kevin Smith So, it’s been what, four years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer went off the air? Time to revisit the Hellmouth, apparently. The CW kicks off its new season Tuesday nights with Reaper, a new comedy from the teen network, about a slacker who discovers on his 21st birthday that his parents sold his soul to the Devil before he was born, and today the Man comes to collect his due. It turns out that the terrible fate in store for…