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'The Vampire Diaries' - Bring It On; Because The Night

It's pom-poms and double-crosses in this two-episode arc

The one-two punch of the last two episodes provides a nice kick-start to the spring story arc. While "Bring It On" finds Elena, newly humanity free, reveling in the thrill of competition and an all-you-can-eat buffet of cheerleaders, "Because the Night" shows a more calculating side to the vamp ...

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'The Vampire Diaries' - Stand By Me

It's time to burn down the house

As the curtain rises, it seems the Littlest Gilbert may have met his final death. Although Elena is insistent that they take Jeremy's body home so that he will be in familiar surroundings when his ring revives him, Stefan isn't so sure a resurrection is in Jeremy's future since he was a Hunter and t ...

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'The Vampire Diaries' - Into The Woods

There's no trail of breadcrumbs to lead them back home

Can Shane be trusted? Is Bonnie's fate an effective point of leverage to control Damon's impulses? Is Elena realistic about who does and doesn't desire to restore their humanity if the "cure" is found? Is Jeremy the only Hunter on the island? Does Bonnie realize how dangerous her powers have become? ...

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'The Vampire Diaries' - We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes

If you believe it, does that make it true?

The fallout from killing Connor Jordan arrives, in the form of his spectre haunting Elena and urging her to kill herself. Klaus offers up the info that killing a Hunter drives you mad through a series of delusions and visions designed to make the vampire responsible end his or her own life. Klaus, h ...

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'The Vampire Diaries' - The Killer

How much is a cure worth?

This week's episode finds Jeremy, Matt and April held hostage by Connor Jordan. While Jordan simultaneously seeks to continue his recruitment of Jeremy to the Hunter's life and lure Stefan into easy killing distance to add another section to Jordan's tattoo, Klaus is excavating for the buried sword ...

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'The Vampire Diaries' - The Five

It's all about love, loss and poor life choices

Scene opens: flashback, 1110 A.D., a nondescript forest at night. The camera pans in and out, and we see five people in a circle around a woman chanting and holding a cauldron. Between the repetition of the word "immortalis," the spontaneously combusting fire, and the subsequent flame arms that fan ...

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'The Vampire Diaries' - The Rager

Damon: 'It's a kitten -- an adorable, exploding kitten'

The season's third episode kicks off with the fall-out from last week's funeral shooting. Tyler is in the hospital "recuperating," guarded by a deputy. In typical tv-trope fashion the guard is lured away from his post by a noise, leaving Tyler open to an attack by Connor Jordan. The battle is s ...

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The CW Eying 'Battle Royale' As A Series?

Network reportedly considers adaption of 2000 Japanese thriller

The CW may develop "Battle Royale" as a television series, according to the Los Angeles Times. Poised for a possible feature film remake for years now, "Battle Royale" was a 2000 Japanese thriller directed by Kinji Fukasaku and adapted from a 1999 novel by Koushun Takami. Talks on the project ...

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Horror Actors Earn Portal Award Nods

Jessica Lange, Jensen Ackles and Andrew Lincoln recognized; plus, The CW's 'Supernatural' is up for best series

"Supernatural" was recently nominated for a 2012 Airlock Alpha Portal Award for best television series, while actors Jensen Ackles, Andrew Lincoln and Jessica Lange were honored for their genre roles. However, it was "Game of Thrones" that made the biggest mark. It already has a solid season seas ...

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'The Secret Circle' - Family

Daddy decides for everybody

This review may contain spoilers Eben (Sammi Rotibi) will exchange Faye (Phoebe Tonkin) for a crystal. Without all six no one can make the skull weapon. He's hanging out at the abandoned ferry (why is it still there?) for the poetic full-circle-ness of it all. Diana (Shelley Hennig) doesn't w ...

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