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King of the Castle

Survivor: One World Finale Survivor: One World ended up being a pretty terrible season.  It’s probably one of the bottom five in the show’s history.  The final episode didn’t really improve much and in fact, the lead up to the final Tribal Council pretty much summed up just how dreadful some of the contestants were.  Christina, the self-styled ‘underdog’, simply ...

Survivor: One World – Episode 11 – “Never Say Die” Okay I give up.  Survivor: One World was a season with an interesting premise and a fresh cast but this episode was just too much stupidity for me to handle. It’s been a somewhat entertaining season in its early stages, particularly because of the stupidity of some of the contestants ...

Game of Thrones Season Two Episode Four – Garden of Bones For my money, this season of Game of Thrones has continued the high standard set by the first season and continues to be my favourite show on the air.  This season has done an excellent job at ratcheting up the stakes of the first season with the four kings ...

 Game of Thrones Season Two – Episode One – “The North Remembers” It was with great anticipation that I sat down to watch the return of Game of Thrones, one of my favourite new shows of 2011.  Its a minor miracle but I’ve managed to avoid reading any spoilers on Twitter or via a messageboard which made me very happy.  ...

There are times when a great wrestling match can be tempered somewhat by a lousy crowd that’s too quiet or disinterested.  Equally there are times when a terrible match is made entertaining by a boisterous crowd who come up with amusing chants or make their own entertainment.  Wrestlemania XXVIII was an unusual pay per view in that it had instances ...

You would presume that after twenty six seasons and over four hundred episodes of Survivor, everything that could happen, has happened.  We’ve seen people voluntarily give up individual immunity (Erik the Ice Cream Scooper), get voted out when holding two immunity idols (James), fake the death of a relative so they could go on a reward trip (Johnny Fairplay).  You ...

After about four or five seasons of major tinkering, Survivor One World feels like a return to roots for the grand daddy of reality tv shows, now running its 24th season.  The last few seasons of Survivor have been of varying quality but they all felt like they moved too far away from the basic formula of the show and ...

Black Mirror Black Mirror is a three part futuristic drama created by Charlie Brooker.  Each episode is thematically related in showing a rather bleak and morbid view of how the future could be if taken to an extreme length.  Some of the themes and motifs that are covered include 24 hour news media, reality television, social networking and video game ...

Beavis and Butthead [2011] One of the most unexpected viewing pleasures of 2011 has been the return of Mike Judge’s classic Nineties cartoon Beavis and Butthead.  Longtime TFW readers will know I am a big Mike Judge fan.  The guy can do no wrong in my eyes.  I absolutely love King of the Hill, the original Beavis and Butthead series ...