DVD Review: Bates Motel

DVD Review: Bates Motel At first glance, the premise of Bates Motel sounds like a horrible idea covered in creative bankruptcy with a side order of bad taste. A prequel series to Psycho, set in the present day, featuring a teenage Norman Bates, with Norman’s relationship with his mother at the center of the show? […]

DVD Review: Chasing Shadows

Chasing Shadows is part of a growing trend in mystery series–the detective with Asperger’s Syndrome or some other state on the autism spectrum. In recent years, sleuths who are suspected of having such conditions, though they rarely receive an official diagnosis, have proliferated on the television screen. They range from Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of the […]

Review: Murdoch Mysteries Season 8

Review: Murdoch Mysteries Season 8

Murdoch Mysteries, Season 8 Acorn Media 2015 $59.99 Based on the novels by Maureen Jennings, Murdoch Mysteries is a historical crime series set in Toronto. By the eighth season, it is in the early 1900s, and the brilliant detective/inventor William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) is ahead of his time (often intentionally anachronistically so) in using scientific […]