Having been announced to carry on his role as The Doctor in BBC’s popular TV series Doctor Who (the current series of which ends this weekend), Peter Capaldi was part of a Q&A session to promote the DVD release of season eight of the show. While on stage, Capaldi revealed that he actually turned down […]
Easter Egg – TARDIS spotted in Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer?
With the trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron being out for less than a day, here at Flickering Myth we believe we could have spotted the first Easter egg from the hotly-anticipated Marvel sequel. It appears our favourite Time Lord is making a background cameo at 1 minute and 33 seconds into the trailer. […]
Turn – Episode 1 Recap
Megan Applegate recaps the first episode of Turn… In case you were busy watching Wrestlemania 30, the Game of Thrones Season 4 opener, or the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday night, you might have missed the fact that AMC took a gamble and premiered the Revolutionary War spy drama Turn. Still, a whopping […]
Vikings Season 2 – Episode 6 Recap
Megan Applegate recaps the sixth episode of Vikings season 2… This week’s episode title, “Unforgiven” could have been interpreted a couple ways. The first? The most obvious. Jarl Borg journeys from his home to Kattegat with Rollo to forge a new, better-than-the-last-time-these-guys-screwed-me-over deal with Ragnar and King Horik. He’s tentative, but eventually thanks Ragnar for […]
Vikings Season 2 – Episode 5 Recap
Megan Applegate recaps episode 5 of Vikings season 2…. Like most family reunions, Lagertha and Bjorn’s return to the fold was a little awkward and a heap sentimental. The episode doesn’t take long to get into the full swing of things and soon Ragnar and a Bjorn (along with two sacrificial Vikings) set out to […]
Vikings Season 2 – Episode 4 Recap
Megan Applegate recaps the fourth episode of Vikings Season 2… So, I’ll just come right out and say that the only thing that ruined this week’s episode, which featured (finally!) a reunion I’d been dying for, was a very-near dying of a favorite character and a crucifixion. But more on that later. Episode 4 starts […]
Vikings Season 2 – Episode 3 Recap
Megan Applegate recaps the third episode of Vikings Season 2… “Hide the good silver, the Northmen are coming” When we last left Ragnar and his merry men, they’d had gone a-Viking and landed a little off the mark—in Wessex and in the kingdom of a rather menacing Ecbert. “Treachery” opens with our band of Vikings […]
Vikings Season 2 – Episode 2 Recap
A Scandinavian Fast Forward… Megan Applegate recaps the second episode of Vikings Season 2…. Holy time warps! The writers wasted no time in this week’s episode and splashed a “Four Years Later” before the opening credits were cold in their graves. This week’s theme seems to be about temptation — the lusty kind, the political […]
Ripper Street Series 2 – Episode 2 Recap
Megan Applegate with a recap of the second episode of Ripper Street series two… The season’s second episode tugged viewers into the underground freak shows of London after a woman with a protruding tail was found murdered in a hospital and her infant son missing. The woman was poor, but obviously well cared for. Detective […]
Vikings Season 2 – Episode 1 Recap
No Fury Like Lagertha Scorned – Megan Applegate recaps the first episode of Vikings season 2… Well, not so much fury as agonizing heartbreak, but we’ll get to that in a moment. So Long, One Eye The eye-patched Viking rides across the battle field, reminding Rollo (Clive Standen) how they’ve fought bravely many times together, […]
