- John Hansen
- December 22, 2011
All 22 episodes of ‘Angel’ Season 1 (1999-2000), ranked
“Angel” Season 1 (1999-2000, The WB) is all over the place creatively, but every place it chooses to go, it treads confidently. The result is 22
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- John Hansen
- December 21, 2011
Time to meet another Darth — sort of — in Drew Karpyshyn’s ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic – Revan’ (Book review)
“Star Wars” novels have been on quite a Darth kick lately. “The Old Republic: Deceived” introduced us to Darth Malgus, and the much-hyped upcoming “Darth
- John Hansen
- December 18, 2011
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2011
For me, this was the year of “What’s going to happen next?” Who killed Rosie Larsen? Will Emily get revenge? How long can Bridget fool
- John Hansen
- December 12, 2011
A&E doing a beautiful adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Bag of Bones’ (TV review)
“Bag of Bones” (1998) is one of my favorite Stephen King books, so it’s refreshing to see A&E doing a beautiful job adapting it. (Part one
- John Hansen
- December 7, 2011
Dash Rendar returns in ‘Star Wars: Shadow Games.’ Yay? (Book review)
Is there a “Star Wars” character that evokes a less passionate response than Dash Rendar? Boba Fett will get a “Love him,” Jar Jar will
- John Hansen
- December 5, 2011
Jason Segel shows us the Muppets have aged well (Movie review)
After a batch of truly terrible previews for Disney-Pixar movies (not only did the movies look bad, the trailers themselves were interminable), my screening of “The
- John Hansen
- November 28, 2011
All 22 episodes of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Season 3 (1998-99), ranked
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Season 3 (1998-99, The WB) is about the end of a first love (Buffy and Angel’s romance), and it also marks my
- John Hansen
- November 23, 2011
‘Cold Vengeance’: From monsters to human monsters, Pendergast-verse keeps getting richer (Book review)
There’s a great human monster in “Cold Vengeance” (August, hardcover), the latest Pendergast novel from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. He’s Falkoner, a German assassin with an
- John Hansen
- November 21, 2011
What happened to ‘The Walking Dead’s’ Sophia? (and 6 other burning TV questions) (Commentary)
Part of why it’s been a great TV season is that there are so many compelling questions that keep us watching from week to week.
- John Hansen
- November 20, 2011
I should like ‘Community.’ But I don’t quite get it. Sorry (TV commentary)
I made it only a few seconds into the first episode of “2 Broke Girls,” one of the most critically acclaimed shows of the fall. It wasn’t