Spurious Awards Of The Week

Alternative Batman Of The Week

Practice, practice, practice.

Unrealistic Aspiration Of The Week

Forget steroids. They’re condoning the use of gamma radiation now!

Guest Star Of The Week

The stranger Awake gets, the better it gets, and the fewer viewers it gets as well, sadly. But how can you not love an episode guest-starring a penguin? Enjoy it while you can

Cover Version Of The Week

The song resurrected by Glee gets a blockbuster makeover. We’re waiting for someone to do one of these video edits for “Bohemian Rhapsody”. That could be an interesting challenge finding clips for, “Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?”

Action Figure Of The Week

A Hunger Games Barbie doll?! Talk about an oxymoron. We can only imagine the expansion packs: a Skipper-style Rue doll with a removable spear in the stomach, and an inflatable Glimmer doll (just add water and see her swell up in grotesque disfigurement!). Children can play with Katniss much like the children in the Capitol played with wooden swords, imagining horrible ways in which the Tributes can kill each other.

Screen Test Of The Week

Spot the dragon? We’re loving the care and attention the makers are putting into Game Of Thrones, some of which most of the audience isn’t even going to notice…

Makeover Of The Week

Grimm makes the bold move to dump the cheap CG for creating its monsters and use cheap prosthetics instead. The results are just as convincing…

Beat-’Em-Up Head-To-Head Of The Week

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You wait ages for a decent beat-’em-up and then two come along at once. We like the Hitler-Versus-George-Washington-on-killer-dinosaurs one. And we love the Game Of Thrones one. But which is better? Oh, you know the drill…

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