Alex Hilhorst

Gotta say, I’m really regretting committing to writing recaps for all of Terra Nova’s first (and definitely last) season for the website Culturemob. If I didn’t have to I would have stopped watching after last week’s atrocious new episode. I haven’t reposted this here until today because I’ve been real busy at my new job, [...]

Earlier this year my recaps of NBC’s shittastic and now cancelled drama The Event got me a good deal of traffic, probably because I was one of the few people on the internets actually willing to waste their time watching and then writing about it. I’ve since gone on to do recaps for The Killing [...]

The X-Files- Season 8 Sigh. That exclamation pretty much sums up how I feel about The X-Files’ penultimate season. This is one of the best sci-fi shows ever made we’re talking about here, hell one of the best TV shows ever made ever, so it really pains me to talk about its slow, laborious death. [...]

Farscape #22 The antepenultimate installment of Farscape’s “War For the Uncharted Territories” arc and from what I’ve heard, the entire comic series, Issue #22, entitled “Talkin’ Kkore Blues” sets the stage for what will likely be an epic two-part finale, but I do have issues with Crichton’s wacky, hippy-esque plan. The issue opens with several [...]

The first half of “Sanctuary” was perhaps the best episode of Falling Skies to date. Part 2? Not so much. It wasn’t as bad as the AV Club might lead you to believe, but it wasn’t the kind of resolution the story arc deserved. Read my recap at Culturemob for more insight. Two episodes remain. [...]

Falling Skies has had its fair share of ups and downs over the course of its first six episodes, but it’s clearly getting better and I feel I may have become too hypercritical as of late- too curmudgeonly. So head over to Culturemob to read my latest recap, which is much more upbeat and enthusiastic [...]

Sigh. I knew “Missing” was too good to be true. Sure, it didn’t focus on the murder investigation at all, but it was still one of the best episodes of the series, probably the best. So I knew I would probably be disappointed when the show brought back Darren “I Have Integrity!!!” Richmond and America’s [...]

The Killing has been flawed to say the least. Red herrings ran amok, with a significant majority of the first season spent on a lead that turned out to be the deadest of dead ends, not to mention a bizarre subplot about a mayoral candidate who has little to do with the central mystery. But [...]

At long last, after a cool pilot and twenty episodes of crap, The Event finally comes to a close, and the answer to “what is the Event?” is (maybe) revealed. Though The Event didn’t redeem itself at the last minute in the same way as FlashForward, it did have a pretty baller ending and could [...]

Millennium- Season 1 When most of you hear the word “millennium,” you probably think “term used to describe 1000 years” and not “show about serial killers by X-Files creator Chris Carter.” So let me give you a little background. In the second half of the 1990s people were freaking out about the impending dawn of [...]