I love me some SyFy Originals. Be they movies or television shows, the giddy lack of logic, ridiculous plots, flagrant violations of the Square Cube Law, and craptacular CGI just make me feel at home. So when SyFy announced that their next show would be about genetically engineered viruses, I was so there. It's like someone decided to bake me a ( Read more... )

Today, I...

...got out of bed.
...put on clothes.
...watched an episode of Haven that's been sitting on the DVR like, forever ( Read more... )

So I am a faithful watcher of America's Next Top Model, largely because it fills the same ecological niche as the SyFy Saturday original movies: it's an excuse to sprawl on the couch drinking cheap port and giggling like an idiot. (Given enough port, you could probably turn off the television without noticeably changing what I was doing. But I ( Read more... )

Last night was the season premiere of Haven, Syfy's show based on Stephen King's The Colorado Kid (and loosely on everything else he's ever written, as witness the small boy chasing a paper boat down the street in the opening scenes). I love this show. I was excited all week about its return. I chased my mother out of the house so I could finish ( Read more... )

Did I loan you any of these? I don't necessarily need them back right this second, I just can't find them:

Dexter, season one.
NCIS, seasons one through four.
Bones, seasons one and two.
Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, seasons one through seven.
Veronica Mars, season one.
Doctor Who, Ninth Doctor.
Doctor Who, Tenth Doctor.
Torchwood, season one.
Tales ( Read more... )

1. landley, yes, I got the sponsorship check, thank you SO MUCH, and I'll deposit it just as soon as Alice gives it back.

2. The next Velveteen story, "vs. Patrol," is about halfway done. The story after that, "vs. Blacklight vs. Sin-dee" is outlined, and the story after that, "vs. the Blind Date," is just going to be painful to watch. Poor Vel ( Read more... )

Last night, Kate and I devoured roughly two-thirds of our backlogged television in a veritable television orgy. Two episodes of America's Next Top Model, the first episode of Castle, and two episodes of Supernatural, no waiting. This is why we love the Tivo. This is why we honor the Tivo. And this is why, at the end of things, the Tivo is ( Read more... )

Coming out on DVD today: Tales from the Darkside, season one, and Friday the 13th: The Series, season two. Also known as 'my childhood, in easily portable form.' (For serious. When I was a kid, I spent my mornings with the cast of My Little Pony and Friends and my nights with Freddy's Nightmares, Monsters, and The Outer Limits. I'm very easy to ( Read more... )

1. I have just finished season two of Regenesis.

2. I have not felt like this since the end of season one of The West Wing.

3. I cannot find magical television elves to give me the beginning of season three.

4. Canada is evil.

ETA: The magical television elves are giving me seasons three and four. The world may now continue.

Since I don't work today -- all hail holidays, all hail the opportunity they give for finishing the damn laundry already -- this morning has been something of a preview of what my working habits will be like when I'm writing full-time. So let's review ( Read more... )