As nostalgia rules over the ever-aging Millenials with reboots to pull at their heart strings (Ghostbusters, Duck Tales, I even heard a Matrix rumor today…), the samurai on the noblest of quests is back to finish what he started. Canceled after four seasons on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim (2001-2004), Samurai Jack returns to television for one Continue reading
Television
‘Sharknado’ Was Absolutely Terrible In The Best Way Possible
The only reason I can imagine that you don’t know about The Asylum’s latest opus, Sharknado, would be that you didn’t touch any social media platforms in the past week. If SyFy (I still hate that name switch) had put this much effort into promoting series like Stargate Universe, the show’s ratings would have likely been more than enough to keep it going….not that I’m sore about that or anything. Still, I think the ramped up ridiculous-ness of this “series” of mega-monster films is definitely to thank for its popularity and presence in our collective social consciousness. It’s become not unlike a bad joke that you just keep telling hoping that it will somehow get funny. Mostly, that doesn’t work. With last night’s premiere of Sharknado it absolutely did. Continue reading
Dear politicians, Leave my PBS alone!
I have zero intentions on making this site anywhere near politically minded; I myself try to stay away from political arguments which always Continue reading
Late To The Party: Sherlock
LTTP (Late To The Party) will be a new feature series on Nerd-Base. The general idea is to feature something that we missed as it was happening, but finally got around to watching after having it recommended repeatedly. In the inguinal article I’m covering BBC’s Sherlock. Continue reading
The Revolution is being televised
J.J. Abrams (creator of LOST, Alias, and the latest Star Trek reboot) has a new series coming to NBC called Revolution. Revolution is about a world that lost all electricity 15 years ago for an unknown reason. Now people are trying to survive after the apocalypse. Basically, its my worst nightmare put on TV.
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