My rating: *** Season 4 episode 7: ‘It’s the great pumpkin, Sam Winchester’ Well, while I am on a roll, I thought I might as well continue with this discussion of God, angels and demons and the supernatural and so on and so forth. Perhaps a more lengthy piece on the emergence of a neo-gnostic [...]
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Supernatural (TV series)
Posted in science fiction/fantasy, TV, tagged angels, demons, gnosticism, Misha Collins, Supernatural on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparitions (2008) Episode 2
Posted in science fiction/fantasy, TV, tagged angels, Apparitions, demons, gnosticism, Supernatural on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My rating: *** Spoiler alert My post on episode one Episode 2 of Apparitions is perhaps a little less convincing than the first one but what is interesting about it is how it manages to foreground contemporary cultural clichés about good and evil. There are some fairly absurd plot twists concerning the Chief Exorcist of [...]
Apparitions (2008) Episode 1
Posted in Foucault, science fiction/fantasy, TV, tagged Apparitions, Joe Ahearne, Martin Shaw, Supernatural, The Others on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My rating: *** imdb link See also my blog post on episode 2 Apparitions is a new supernatural thriller series currently airing on the BBC which gets off to a gripping start in the first episode. I saw this first episode courtesy of a good friend who is a fan of the actor who plays [...]
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