Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
Dependable, funny, quirky and able to slip through the cracks because few pay attention.
Category: TV: N-Z
X-Men: Volumes Three and Four
Most of the cartoons I watched growing up revolved around heroes trying to stop villains with a single focus. In Transformers, the Decepticons pillaged the world in search of Energon.[…]
Sons of Anarchy: Season One
Although the drama goes a little too Shakespearian at times to the point of predictability, the show’s an intelligent and human take on a subject that is normally either idolized or cartoonized.
The Simpsons: Season 12
While not at its best, it’s still a smarter and funnier show than nearly everything else you’re bound to find on TV, DVD or some basement box holding some slowly rotting bootleg VHS tapes of a show that lasted six episodes back in 1986.
X-Men: Volumes One and Two
Filled with big storylines and tons of well-defined characters, X-Men is everything one could hope for in an action cartoon.
The Smurfs: Volume One – True Blue Friends
While some of the characters are obnoxious beyond belief, the show as a whole is just as smurfy now as it was 25 years ago.
The Tudors: Season Two
The sensual scandal returns, albeit toned down slightly from the raunchy first bow, in the second season of The Tudors. Chronicling the reign of England’s King Henry VIII and his[…]
Transformers Animated: Season Two
Demonstrates that you can modify something for current audiences while respecting the original source material.
Transformers Animated: Season One
Although there are many familiar elements, the overall look and feel of Transformers Animated is very different from the original show. It’s not all a bad thing just as long as I remember that I’m no longer the target audience.
The Tudors: Season One
The Tudors is a lush and addicting look at history filled with period delights. However it’s also got its symbolic mirror reflecting right back at us as it comments on the sometimes sleazy state of our western world.
