Thursday, December 4, 2014

Arrow

 
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Action/ Adventure, Drama, Superhero
Cast Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Colin Donnell, David Ramsey, Willa Holland, Susanna Thompson, Paul Blackthorne, Emilie Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes, Manu Bennett, John Barrowman
No. of Seasons: 3
No. of Episode: 54
Available On: Netflix

Arrow follows the Marvel superhero, The Green Arrow, named Oliver Queen as he goes through the city righting the wrongs done by his father. A former spoiled rich kid with no morals, honor, or integrity, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was stranded on a seemingly deserted island for five years after being shipwrecked. Having survived on that island after being hunted, nearly killed multiple times and brutally tortured, Oliver finally made it back to civilization. There's something different however; since escaping the island, he seems to now be a respectable young man, honorable in all meanings of the word. Not only that, but when night falls, he dons a green hood and is armed to the teeth with a bow and arrows and a knife,  and hunts down the corrupted business men of his city and forces them to change their ways, as well as facing formidable foes, while he and his personal bodyguard, friend and confident,  John Diggle assists him in keeping his secret while living his life as a billionaire.

Scorned: Love Kills

 
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Documentary
No. of Seasons: 4
No. of Episodes: 58
Available On: ID (Investigation Discovery)

Scorned: Love Kills is an American documentary that shows infamous of love gone horribly wrong. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". In many of the episodes, the women are victims of unfaithful partners or spouses and kill seeking revenge in its most potent essence. Overall the show is an enormous hit amongst the American public, however, much like Deadly Women, this documentary is all real. Because of that, the show has a certain but subtle frightening element to it.

Deadly Women

 
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Candice DeLong (hostess), Lynnanne Zager (narrator)
No. of Seasons: 8
No. of Episodes: 99
Available On: ID (Investigation Discovery)

In this particular television documentary, Deadly Women focuses on histories most infamous female killers and serial killers. Candice DeLong is the hostess, with her co-worker Lynnanne Zager presents the crimes of these women through a series of dramatizations. Ranging from jealousy, to greed, to lust, to craving power, even to killing out of sheer boredom, this show has a certain frightening edge to it, since it is a realistic documentary.

Deadliest Warrior

 
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Geoff Desmoulin, Armand Dorian, Max Geiger, Richard Machowicz, Robert Daly
No. of Seaons: 3
No. of Episodes: 33
Available On: DVD Box Set, iTunes

The television documentary Deadliest Warrior was an educational program that would pit histories greatest warriors against each other, such as Joan of Arc, George Washington, Jesse James and his Posse and even Al Capone and his Gang. Lots of warriors would battle for the title (and show's namesake) "Deadliest Warrior". The battle would be simulated using the latest technologies and video programming that utilized the skills and overall varying skills and well-being of the warriors themselves. Data would be gathered on the weapons the warriors utilized in battle through a series of tests and two historians that represented one of the battling warriors. For their special, Deadliest Warrior brought two of the most horrifying fantasy warriors to life: the undead Vampires that fight the living dead Zombies. The show, unfortunately, was cancelled after the third season due to budgeting issues. 

The Walking Dead

 

Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Horror, Post Apocalyptic
Cast: Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Jeffery DeMunn, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Michael Rooker, David Morrissey, Melissa McBride, Scott Wilson, Michael Cudlitz, Emily Kinney,  Chad L. Coleman
No. of Seasons: 5
No. of Episodes: 59

The Walking Dead is a horror, serial drama that surrounds the survivors of the zombie apocalypse. The challenges of the survivors not only remain in staying alive from enormous hordes of zombies (often times referred to as walkers and/or biters), but maintaining their very humanity. However, not is not just the zombies they have to cautious of, but other survivors that have forfeited their own humanity to survivors. Among the "walkers" are the friends, and family of the survivors, as well of those whom sought to escape the corrupted world through varying methods of cruel homicide and even suicide. The survivors seek sanctuary in varying places in the United Stated, searching for a cure... Until they learn that there is no cure.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Revolution

 

Rating: TV-14
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Action/ Adventure, Drama
Cast: Billy Burke, Tracy Spiridakos, Giancarlo Esposito, Zak Orth, David Lyons, Daniella Allonso, Anna Lise Phillips, Graham Rogers, J.D Pardo, Tim Guinee, Maria Howell, Stephen Collins, Elizabeth Mitchell,
No. of Seasons: 2
No. of Episodes: 42
Available On: Netflix

Revolution is a post-apocalyptic, science fiction television series that follows the survivors of "The Blackout", the permanent loss of power and electricity. The show takes place in the future, near the year 2027 which was 15 years after The Blackout occurred. Over the next 15 years people have began to adapt to life without electricity and due to the collapse of all forms of government and public order, several areas hare ruled by militia camps and their generals.