By Heather Cee
We’ll leave the clever stake metaphors to everyone else. According to Variety, CBS has officially cancelled Moonlight, citing unhappiness with the show’s creative direction “and turnover behind the scenes among producers and scribes and tussling between the network and studio over budgetary issues. The final straw was the show’s sagging ratings perf during the past few weeks after its post-strike return.”
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By Lisa Fary
It was a compelling opening for Moonlight this week, with a girl banging on a hotel room door and blood flowing under the door and onto her shoes. “Moonlight’s stepped up this week!” I said to John. Then I realized we were watching the last minute of Ghost Whisperer. Stupid Tivo.
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By Lisa Fary
If vampires are supposed to stay out of the public eye, what possessed Mick to take a security job for a paparazzi pursued Hollywood starlet? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of keeping a low profile? In his narrative, he says it’s about not letting the vampirism define him, but it still seems like a bonehead move.
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By Lisa Fary (Heather Cee is out this week)
That’s how you come back from a long hiatus: with Alex O’Loughlin walking around half naked for as long as possible.
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by Heather Cee Here it is: the last new episode of Moonlight (guess they’re calling them season finales nowadays) until the WGA strike is resolved. I’m not sure I would have been upset about the wait three or four episodes ago, but now? My buttons are gettin’ pushed big time – the good ones. Related [...]
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By Heather Cee This is what I’m talking about. High stakes, solid acting, and a storyline that brings all of the elements and themes of this show together in one crackin’ fell swoop. That Coraline is present in name only makes this episode that much more remarkable, as things tend to make more sense when [...]
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Glad to see at least one genre show get some props. You hear that, NBC? Journeyman…grumble…grumble… Related Stuff:
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By Heather Cee Oh, a Josef episode – you’re excited, right? There’s no way this could suck, even if Josef’s role thus far has been lurking on the fringes, being rich and well-dressed and occasionally tossing fortune cookie wisdom Mick’s way when the P.I. goes all existential. But a peek into four centuries’ worth of [...]
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By Heather Cee To paraphrase Dinosaur Comics: Beth Turner is boring, Coraline is awesome. When’s the last time you watched a show that so effortlessly flipped its own loyalties, and – probably – without meaning to? With the Mick/Beth relationship stretched to its complicated limits, and Mick’s angsty, romantic bastard routine playing itself out like [...]
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By Heather Cee The most exciting thing that happens this week is in the episode’s first few minutes, with Mick demonstrating the unique nature of vampire physiology. If you’ve ever wondered what happens to those bullets after Mick gets shot and his body heals, it involves a scalpel and a souvenir jar of the suckers. [...]
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By Heather Cee If a group of Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar sat around listening to trip hop, took a few healthy hits off a bong, and eventually got down to business, the product of their swingers’ party would be something like Shannyn Sossamon. While undeniably a beauty, there’s a praying mantis quality about her that suits [...]
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By Heather Cee (Apologies for the lateness this week! These things happen when you neglect to marry rich.) Show, why must you keep the full-blown awesome that is Josef on the fringes? I know it’s taken me a while to warm to the smug, cynical, filthy-rich playboy vampire stereotype you’ve trotted out for select scenes [...]
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By Heather Cee Moonlight manages to kill its plot of the week and its hero’s struggle with his own eternal awkwardness with one thematic stone this week – and it works. Quite well, actually. Just as I’ve come to accept that the cheese will continue to flow free and thick, we have signs that our [...]
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By Heather Cee A gunfight, explosions, looming death – I guess Moonlight saved the flash for the critical fourth episode, with those finicky networks ready to trim the dead weight from the new fall season. With the future uncertain and ratings on the line, there was only one trump card left to lure in that [...]
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By Heather Cee There’s a lot of penetrating going on in Mick St. John’s world, and not the sort he’d prefer – if those measured stares he keeps leveling at Beth are any indication. Lots of biting, lots of glaring, and another person taking advantage of the invisible target Mick seems to have tattooed on [...]
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By Heather Cee You know, for a private investigator., Mick St. John is remarkably unstealthy. Take into consideration that he’s a vampire and one wonders how he’s managed to last 60 years with his head still attached to his body, never mind a healthy career in helping “innocents.” Related Stuff:
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What’s worse? Being an unwilling vampire or dreaming that you’re being interviewed by Julie Chen? Mick St. John is unfortunate enough to meet with both of those fates in the first sixty seconds of Moonlight. Related Stuff:
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By Heather Cee Within the first three minutes we learn the basics of vampires in Moonlight‘s world: coffins, crucifixes, garlic, holy water, and turning into a bat are old wives’ tales, freezers are the bed of choice, and sunlight is not deadly, but not preferable. While other vampires sip cups of blood like lattes or [...]
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