One of the things that we value most here at TVAD is variety: of opinions; of ideas; and – most importantly – of shows. Reviews, recaps, news, Best Of lists are just a few of what’s on offer here, as you can see from the list below. It’s so important to us to strive to provide heaps of different kinds of articles with which to engage with your favorite programs. Why? Because the end, the most important thing to us is that we do our best to make TVAD reflect the amazing diversity amongst the fans that frequent our site.
Reviews: The articles where we take a look back in depth over each individual episode of a show each season, discussing what works, what didn’t, who stole the show, and what will have us tuning in next week.
First Impressions: An article designed to give you an inside look into upcoming shows before they air, with honest, engaging discussion about the show’s content, creation, and why it just might be worth you tuning in when it finally airs. Final Impression articles are reviewed based on the series pilot. – These are done generally the day before series premiere.
4 Episode Challenge: Sometimes a great show can take more than one episode to find its feet in the beginning. The 4 Episode Challenge is designed to help viewers look ahead and see more than just a today’s pilot, but rather, tomorrows potential, by encouraging them to give a show a few episodes (rather than only one) with which to win their attention. Of course it could also mean that a show might not hold our interest. We give you a full review on these first four episodes before giving over to our Final Verdict for the series watchlist, DVR, or pass entirely. – Check our list of the newest series pilots and scheduled reviews.<
Final Verdict: Where we’ve now watched and reviewed the four episodes and it’s time to decide whether or not it will make it to our watchlist, DVR/Online Streaming, Pass, tweet worthy list. Which show captured our editors/writers interest to acquire a review versus a recap.
Recap: We still do recaps. It’s limited to certain shows, simply because our preference is reviewing as it reveals a genuine love, interest and conversational dynamics for the audience, the creators/writers and for ourselves. Where as a recap is basically telling the story when we rather you go watch and engage with us after. – Check here for our recap shows and schedule.
Watch List: It’s not an article but if you’re interested in what our editor-in-chief deems as LIVE watch, DVR/Online Streaming each week visit our TV After Dark Facebook and Like Us.
Point/Counterpoint: Everybody has different opinions about what makes a TV show work. Here at TVAD, we’re no different. Our Point/Counterpoint Articles are designed to give you two different viewpoints about the same program, with a view to giving you the most well rounded idea of why a particular show might or might not be for you.
Game Changer: There comes a moment in pretty much every show each season where – in order to keep us coming back every week – they do something that takes the story to a new level. Here, we take a look back at those kind of moments, and discuss what happened, whether it achieved the desired effect, and whether it will keep us excited enough to keep going forward.
Season In Review: The shows have wrapped for the season and it’s made it on our watch list and survived our four episode challenge. Season in review articles is taking a quick snippet look back into the series season and sharing whether we think you should sign on for another season or you should cancel it of your watch list. – Visit our latest season in review.
Scene Stealer: There’s always one. They could be the star of the show bringing their A game better than ever before; or a one episode character who breezes in and steals your breath away. The Scene Stealer post is a post that recognises the impact that these individual characters have on the success of an episode, in conveying the story they are trying to tell.
Life Ruiner: It doesn’t take much viewing to realize that we are ridiculously lucky to have a heap of awesome TV talent on display for us every week. The Life Ruiner post is there to highlight those characters that for us as viewers basically make our inner fan boy/girl explode with all the awesome: the ones that make us most want to say “That’s it! It doesn’t get better than that! Love them.”
Weekly Wall of Fame: Writers Room Edition: It might be because they made us laugh, or brought us to tears, or challenged us to see the world in a new way. Either way, these posts involve various members of TVAD staff highlighting different groups of screenwriters each week who brilliantly managed to tell the story of their show, by capturing not only the heart and soul of the tale they are trying to tell, but also the hearts and minds of us as viewers.
Weekly Wall of Fame: Director’s Cut: You can have great actors, and great scripts to work with, but it’s TV science that if the director at the helm doesn’t have the right vision, things can easily fall apart. These posts are designed to acknowledge the different directors that each week that do a great job in leading a show where it needs to go visually, technically and emotionally, in order to tell the best tale it can.
Roundtable: Monthly discussion between TV After Dark writers, fans and guest writers from entertainment news site such as TV Fanatic, KSite TV, Fanbolt to name a few. – Join our monthly roundtable.
News Roundup: Weekly articles dedicated to current entertainment news of the week, casting, interviews, ratings etc. – Get caught up with our current weekly roundup here.
Trailer Reviews: Mostly you’ll see our thoughts on television pilot trailers and promos. Whether it did the trick get us excited to watch or not. We also do trailer reviews for our movie and book section of the site. – Check out our trailer review thoughts here.
Work The Poll: It’s a great opportunity for us to work the fans and get them all riled up. Nothing like a good shipping war to add some spice to your daily life. We’re enablers we know. So we’ve got three polls that tend to pop in now and then on our site. Fan Reaction, Prediction and Love Triangle Polls. So who’s ready to work the poll? – Check out the page here.
Nerdeeks Gone Wild: Are post generally pertaining to everything about fan events. It’s the time when we’re covering fan events, with fan interaction and celebrity guest interviews at the varying types of comic cons around the world. – Check out our Events, Conventions, Festival Schedule and follow our Instagram and see what our hashtag #LookAtMeTVAD is all about.
SnarkWeek: It’s a reality check on reality TV that we cover. These aren’t indepth articles, they’re simple observations of scenes in episodes that we make fun off. Maybe it made us feel something besides humor, it could be there. It’s generally followed up by photos and videos and the live long and prosper of the wonderful creation of GIFs. – Check out what we Reality TV we’ll be snarking on.
Summer Blaze: We take a look at some of our favorites entertainment pass times with our summer movies and book reads list . We kick off our summer blaze June 5th two weeks before the official start of Summer on Saturday, 21 June. – Visit our Summer Blast Schedule.
TV After Dark Time Capsul: It’s our own award show, where it’s a look back to the best the year has to offer. – Check out our list and schedule for this years Time Capsule worthy television.
