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Immortalized Competitive Taxidermy on AMC

Immortalizer Takeshi Yamada

In a new reality show from AMC, “Immortalized” brings the masses competitive taxidermy. Didn’t realize there was such a thing? Treat your eyes to the strange and surreal, the macabre and fascinating when two top taxidermists compete using fantastic displays of talent and imagination as they face a challenge every week, in an epic battle to become immortalized. In what was deemed creative combat, we were introduced to Kevin Clark from Petaluma, California, and Beth Beverly of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Clark’s specialty is bugs and insects,… Read More »

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Walking Dead 310

On Walking Dead, annoying people talk for 40 minutes, followed by five minutes of excellent action. I think that ratio needs to be adjusted. Funny thing about this week’s Walking Dead. My cable provider, Time Warner, is terrible. As a result, AMC was a mess of digital stuttering and distortion. It was so bad I literally couldn’t make out more than a line or two of dialog all episode. I could only guess at what was going on in a general sense. Why am I… Read More »

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Face Off — Two Heads Are Better Than One

On Face Off, the contestants create multi-headed giants out of foam and paint to promote a movie that’s so packed with CGI it looks like a cartoon. Everyone heads off to the Magic Mountain theme park (promotion!) where they run around, have fun, then run into McKenzie near a giant fake redwood tree. Bryan Singer shows up. He’s not my favorite director, but he’s a pretty big name, so I wonder how they roped him into this…oh, he’s got a movie coming out with giants… Read More »

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The Following – Episode 4 – Mad Love

The Following, Episode 4, Mad Love

What do you do when a known serial killer kidnaps your sister for revenge? You go after her if you’re Ryan Hardy. This is part of what tonight’s episode, “Mad Love”, was centered on. In a bit of a twist, last episode’s Maggie is on a revenge mission because Hardy killed her husband, so she, in turn, kidnaps Hardy’s sister, Jenny. The twist is that even though Maggie is one of Carroll’s followers, he didn’t order this job. She’s acting on her own, but she… Read More »

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Lost Girl — Faes Wide Open

Lost Girl, the TV show that gives you the maximum amount of sideboob allowed by law, guaranteed. This week’s episode was called “Faes Wide Shut,” and it should be the final nail in the coffin of the terrible “Fae” puns for episode titles. It doesn’t even make any sense. How do you pronounce that? Fighs? Fay-eyes? Just stop already. Bo and Lauren are hanging out at the bar checking out the local talent. At first I thought they were scoping out hotties for a potential… Read More »

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Walking Dead – Suicide King

Walking Dead returns from the mid-season break with one the goriest scenes ever. Glenn and Maggie have vague relationship issues, Daryl and Merle decide blood is thicker than…other people’s blood, and Rick finds a whole bunch of toys in the attic. Woodbury’s Daryl versus Merle deathmatch erupts into a riot when the two try to stage an escape, and Rick , Maggie and Glenn lay down covering fire (Maggie seems to take aim and take out a young girl). They bust out through a hole… Read More »

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Face Off – Eye Candy

Anthony attempts to keep his unprecedented winning streak alive on a candy-themed Face Off. Almost being eliminated last week still didn’t seem to reduce Autumn’s arrogance in any way, as she starts this week’s episode remarking that the judges must just have higher expectations of her. Yes, that’s it. There’s a foundation challenge this week that offers immunity to the winner – put a beard on a female model to create a classic bearded lady. The whole thing was judged by a world champion beard… Read More »

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The Following – Episode 3 – The Poet’s Fire

The Following, Season 1, Episode 2, The Poet's Fire

We were left with the image of someone in a Poe mask setting a civilian on fire. In episode three, “The Poet’s Fire”, we pick up with the person in the Poe mask delivering a street performance that has attracted quite a crowd. As our curiosity grows concerning who is really behind the mask, the person methodically walks across the street and sets the person on fire. Hardy (Kevin Bacon) is with Special Agent Parker, trying to figure out where Joey is. The suspects, Emma,… Read More »

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Lost Girl – Fae-ed to Black

On this week’s Lost Girl, mythologies collide. Hale is an ashhole. Trick overacts. And Bo just can’t get enough. She just can’t get enough. A lot of TV dramas begin with a cold open. Lost Girl subverts the whole idea with a hot open – a lengthy montage of Bo and Lauren having sex. There’s oil and hair-pulling and even a little scissor-sister action if you watch closely. Bo is wearing Lauren out and seems totally insatiable, turning to chocolate as a diversion and even… Read More »

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Grisly Wear – Severed Finger Necklace!

openwoundfx severed finger

Into grisly wear? Show your taste for the macabre. You’ve seen gruesome severed fingers in horror films, but now you can own one. This severed finger necklace will be sure to draw wide-eyed shock and the menacing question: Is it real? Your answer: As close to real as it gets darling. Realistic right down to the slightly protruding bone crafted from a piece of wood. This Severed Finger Necklace is a detailed prosthetic handcrafted by Meaghan O’Keefe of Openwound FX. Meaghan is known for her… Read More »

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