Usually when I review non-English shows, they’re Japanese but sometimes it’s good to be reminded that there good (and bad) shows everywhere.  We often think of Japan as being the sole home of the sentai-style show, after all, they created the “five good looking friends from all walks of life” model, a model that the [...]

I just finished watching Detective Academy Q, an 11-episode j-drama that aired in 2006-2007.  It originated as a manga series, written by Seimaru Amagi, which ran in Weekly Shonen Magazine between 2001-2005 and was made into an 45-episode anime series in 2003-2004.  As I had seen at least parts of the anime series, I sort [...]

On the last episode of The Atheist Experience, they had a special guest join them for the last half-hour of the show, a Christian minister, Kyle Miller, from Austin’s Great Hills Baptist Church.  There has been a lot of criticism of the move over on the Atheist Experience Blog, but since they require people to [...]

Way back in the olden TV days of 1981, the British did a 6-episode mini-series based on the classic sci-fi book by John Wyndham.  Just last year, they remade the series into a two-part, 3-hour mini-series that I just finished watching and wanted to dive straight into a review.  I’m going to try hard to [...]