Lost S01E05 – White Rabbit

White Rabbit focuses on Jack and shows us a glimpse into his past.  We see that he has a past of trying to help everyone and that his parents are exactly the nicest of people and seem to try to undermine him at every opportunity.  This is another episode that starts to reveal the mysticism of the island, or is it just Jack delirious from lack of the sleep and water.  Locke again shows that he seems to be more in tune with the island, but then he's got the most reason to believe.

This is another good episode, shows a little bit more of all of the characters revealing some elements that you wouldn't have suspected.  Again finishing with a little bit of a feel good moment which means the next episode is bound to explode.

The River S01E01 – Magus

The River follows the family of a wildlife expert and TV show host, very much in the style of Steve Irwin, after he goes missing whilst filming on the Amazon river.  The show is filmed entirely as a documentary with a camera crew and surveillance cameras.  It is reminiscent of the Blair Witch Project in the style that it was filmed, but unlike the Blair Witch Project it isn't crap.  The River raises more than enough questions to keep you interested and shows you enough to make you want to see more without revealing everything straight away.  I really enjoyed it, which can only mean one thing... you can pretty much forget about there being a season 2, we can all hope but looking at the news on Google it looks like it's already been cancelled, so I've got the rest of the season to enjoy and no doubt the frustration at the end of the season at yet another unresolved climax!

Grimm S01E01 – Pilot

It's going to sound a little bit like I'm completely obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but Grimm is somewhere between Supernatural and Buffy (every where I look I can't help but see her).  The style is very good and fits perfectly with the Grimm fairytale theme.  There is obviously quite a lot of material for them to work with so you would think they should be able to get a good number of recognisable stories to flow throughout.

Interesting premise, look forward to more (although it's not as good as Supernatural which is fantastic).

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

I saw the trailer for this about a month ago and it blew me away... that is were this tale sadly ends!  This was nothing like the trailer, the trailer was fast paced, aggressive and comedic in a slightly absurd way.  In reality it was much slower, almost period drama slow in places, and the vampires were almost as scary as those found in Buffy the Vampire slayer or maybe even Sesame Street!  There were some entertaining moments but they were few and far between.

The most notable thing throughout was the over reliance (to the point of obsession) on 3D effects and I'd rather see an end to all this 3D nonsense and some actual focus of clever and funny stories.  Also Ab seemed to age far faster than his best friend who looked pretty much the same the whole way through (and no not his vampire friend)!

Lost Girl S01E01 – Its A Fae Fae Fae Fae World

Lost Girl starts out quite sexy, sleek and mysterious but then it quickly turned into Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Now this isn't necessarily a bad thing but I was really enjoying the first half of the show and then the Buffy monsters appeared which weren't really in keeping with the style of it up to that point.

I did enjoy it and will definitely watch a couple more episodes, but I feel it could have been much better and guaranteed that I would watch many more an episode.  Less plasticine monsters and more of Bo seducing and draining bad people's life force!