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Drama

Recap: Grimm Season 4 episode 14 “Bad Luck” — “Rabbit, Run!”

Juliet and Nick can’t seem to catch a break. Between her finding out about his secret life and then getting involved in that secret life – e.g. having her memory erased by a cat, having to trade places with Adalind etc., – and now, when things finally seem like they’ve reached equilibrium, the scales get tipped.. After last episode’s much-needed ass whupping of Adalind, poor Juliette barely gets time to breathe (and maybe gloat a bit) before Nick comes home. In the interest of full disclosure (something neither she nor Nick seem particularly good at, or even inclined towards) and […]

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Drama

The Returned: The spine-tingling French series gets an American reboot on A&E

If you saw The Returned in its original French incarnation, odds are you haven’t forgotten a moment. The eerie character study about a small town unmoored when a handful of its dead return seemingly unchanged explored matters of life and death and devotion in a gorgeously quiet, emotionally rending way. Now the series is getting an American reboot from writer/producers Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) and Raelle Tucker (Supernatural, True Blood). The pair says that, rather than re-create the original, they used it as a starting point for more expansive storytelling as “the returned” and their reeling loved ones navigate […]

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Drama

Grimm recap: “Trial by Fire”

Conflict is at the heart of every drama and Grimm is a show that works best when its characters struggle moves beyond the “I’m going to punch a monster this week” and digs into more historical and personal territory. It also helps to have a good fight, because Grimm is still about punching some monsters. This week’s episode gives us all that and more and has some fun with a character over which I was beginning to despair. Let’s recap shall we? The cold open begins with a hot lava monster and two naughty kids just trying to have some […]

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Paranormal

Mountain Monsters Season 3 will be a “Bigfoot Edition”

Destination America is becoming a network that seems heavily focused on paranormal programming. In February, the network debuted the new series True Supernatural, Ghosts in My House and Ghostly Encounters, and the channel has a backlog of other monster- and ghost-related programs in its library. One of those series that has been a hit — and, in fact, is Destination America’s No. 1 series, according to the network — has been Mountain Monsters, and Mountain Monsters Season 3 begins on March 7. Mountain Monsters Season 3 is billed as a “Bigfoot Edition,” and kicks off with eight episodes featuring the pursuit of Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) across the region (the second […]

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Drama

Now Available: Book Based On CW Series, “The Originals”

Fans of The Vampire Diaries and its successful spin-off prequel The Originals have a new way to get their vampire fix. A series of books created by Julie Plec contains original content and stories of the Original vampire family. And each book has cover art featuring the stunning cast of The Originals. Book 1, The Originals: The Rise features a stunning shot of Klaus Mikaelson (Joseph Morgan), and as a bonus, includes the first three chapters of book #2 in the series, The Originals: The Loss. The Originals: The Rise, is available now and takes readers back to eighteenth century […]

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Interview

Interview with TV Psychic-Medium, Kim Russo

I first learned of Kim Russo when I happened upon a recent episode of The Haunting of…  and I was absolutely dumbfounded. I could not believe the accuracy of the information that Kim Russo received from the spirit world about her client, comedian Tom Green. If you are unfamiliar with LMN’s Saturday night series The Haunting of…, world-renowned psychic-medium, Kim Russo, revisits locations where famous celebrities have had paranormal experiences. Kim attempts to explain the unexplained experience and often unveils surprising personal details as she connects with the celebrities’ loved ones who have passed over. It is absolutely riveting television. […]

Lifestyle

TV Psychic Kim Russo’s Life-Changing New Show

I had a fascinating chat with Kim Russo, the renowned psychic-medium who has been featured on Psychic Kids, Paranormal State and who has hosted and starred in three unforgettable seasons of The Haunting of… Kim has an astonishing new series, Psychic Intervention, that premieres on LMN Saturday, Nov. 22 at 8pm ET/7pm CT. Kim revealed that her new show goes beyond communicating with a person’s relatives, this time she’s touching people’s souls. Kim, can you communicate with more than people who are no longer living? Once you’re a medium, you’re not just a medium who speaks with dead people; a […]

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Drama

Constantine Episode 4 recap: A Feast of Moral Questionability

It’s episode four and Constantine just got dark. “A Feast of Friends” takes a classic Hellblazer story, some seriously unsettling imagery, a clichéd take-home message (don’t do drugs, kids!) and starts stepping up to the plate on the series’ potential. Instead of the nameless red shirt we’ve come to expect in the cold open, this week we are introduced to Gary Lester who just got off a plane and is trying his hardest to get through customs even though he’s obviously strung-out. Airport security does an unimpressive job of interrogating him and then breaks his priceless antique jar, unleashing a […]

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Horror

#TBT TV: The Scare Factor III: Scare Factor Lives! (2002)

This Throwback Thursday transports us to October 2002, when we celebrated Halloween with our annual Scare Factor series of tributes to the best in horror and sci-fi films and TV shows. Scare Factor III was my personal favorite, as our staff picked our favorite genre characters and wrote little epitaphs for them. From the October 2002 edition of Channel Guide Magazine: It just won’t die! Our annual homage to horror shakes off the rigor mortis for its third edition, this time celebrating our favorite characters who really make for big-scream TV. Our office asylum put their severed heads together and […]

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Drama

The Vampire Diaries Season 6 Episode 4 recap: Family Ties

I have been waiting all week for this episode of The Vampire Diaries to see whether or not Elena and Stefan were going to rekindle the flame and get married. While I love Damon too, let’s face it he’s bad news for her. Tonight’s episode “Black Hole Sun” started off with Kai trying to pry out information from Damon. He asked exactly why they were stuck on a loop of May 10, 1994 thinking it had something to do with Damon’s past. It seems like Kai’s right because Damon doesn’t want to talk about what happened trapping him in this […]