FX’s drama department doesn’t get the respect it deserves. Honestly, I don’t think FX in general gets the respect it deserves. While everyone had their eye on AMC, its fellow basic cable channel was busy churning out one of the most unfairly overlooked lineups on TV. While the miniseries classification of American Horror Story and […]
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If I were a houseguest on Big Brother, I would treat the entire first week the same way I treat the series premiere of a TV show: sit back, enjoy, reserve judgment until you get one more week, and then commit to it or drop it. Sadly, I’m not a houseguest so instead I’m left […]
It’s a debate I’ve had with my friends a countless amount of times. “Who was the best pro athlete ever to play in Toronto?” This is a really hard question to try and figure out. The answer certainly isn’t all that obvious in Toronto’s case as opposed to other cities in North America. This isn’t […]
I tried to drag out the second season of Orange is the New Black out as long as I possibly could. I really did, but that show just sucks you in. I love that Orange is the New Black is on Netflix and that they submit the season all at once, but I have the […]
Odyssey Opera is coming just in time. Three years ago, there were two regional-theater-sized opera companies in town, the Boston Lyric Opera (the “BLO”), which tends to stage standard classics of the opera repertoire; and Opera Boston, which specialized in infrequently-heard, along with new and experimental works. Opera Boston’s controversial and surprise closing in 2011 […]
Theatre 20 occupies a very specific and somewhat strange space in Toronto theatre. They produce work very rarely but, when they do, it’s event theatre- a big musical with a top-notch cast; something worth dressing up and hiring a babysitter for. Company is their biggest show yet. My favourite Sondheim piece, the contemporary musical’s complicated […]
Best Pre-Credits Intro Ever…. All right, I may be biased, but True Blood opened on Eric, the talented Alexsander Skarsgard who was last seen burning, and his fate was unknown. Well Jason found him! Eric and Jason start to banter, and then one of the hottest man on man sex scenes takes place. I needed […]
You walk into the theatre. Plastic covers the walls on the stage. At first you don’t notice, but after a while you start see something projected there. A ribcage? “This isn’t your regular programing,” actor Cliff Cardinal tells us, as he walks on stage with a plastic bag duct taped over his head. “It takes […]