Admittedly, Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot is a pretty obscure television show. So obscure that it isn’t even listed on Epguides, and it doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia page. Everything has a Wikipedia page these days.

Nevertheless, it’s right up my alley and odds are someone might stumble upon these reviews and give it a look — or give it a pass — as a result. Either way, here we go.

The second episode of Finding Bigfoot finds us in Florida, home to the infamous Skunk Ape (which, incidentally, does have its own Wikipedia page).

Now the so-called Skunk Ape is something particularly interesting to Bigfooters. While Bigfoot sightings in the Pacific Northwest remain reasonably consistent, so too do the sightings of the Skunk Ape in the Florida Everglades—but the two, together, don’t match. Instead, the Skunk Ape is thought to be something of a cousin to the vanilla Bigfoot. Shorter, redder, and accompanied by a pungent methane odor that gives it its name. Still, like Bigfoot, the Skunk Ape has passed from Native American legend into modern times and Finding Bigfoot is about to dig up all they can on the creature.

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I like Bigfoot. In fact, I like a lot of weird things, like the paranormal, aliens, and cryptoids but Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, tops them all. Weird, I know. But you can imagine my interest when I heard about a new show on Animal Planet called Finding Bigfoot. I had to check it out.

Now if you’re into these sorts of shows then let me lay out the field for you. Finding Bigfoot falls somewhere in between a show like MonsterQuest and a show like Ghost Hunters. For those of you that don’t follow these kinds of shows  let me put it to you this way. Finding Bigfoot falls in the spectrum between a show featuring tenured academics weighing in on strange creatures and unusual happenings, and a show featuring a bunch of guys running around hunting ghosts with night-vision cameras.

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I stumbled across the new BBC series Sherlock by accident. Frankly, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about it earlier. Both Maria and I are huge Sherlock Holmes fans, and huge mystery fans in general, but somehow this slipped passed our radar.

For as long as there have been moving pictures, there have been adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Some have been brilliant. Some have been otherwise. Some have depicted Holmes as rather tame and mild-mannered. Others, like Guy Ritchie’s interpretation, have picked up on Holmes’ lesser savoury habits and tendencies. But the BBC’s Sherlock depicts the famous detective, and his affable partner, in an entirely new way.

Sherlock is an adaptation of the classic Holmes franchise set in modern-day London.

Of course, upon first hearing the premise—a modern day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes—you might scoff, I know I did, but after giving it a chance I found that I would be more than rebuffed. This series, in fact, is brilliant.

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OK, so I have a more than passing interest in the paranormal. So a new television show like Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files is going to, in the least, pique my interest for a few episodes. But can it hold it beyond that?

In my experience, paranormal TV runs the gamut from something very scientific and research-based like MonsterQuest (featuring actual tenured academics) to something more akin to a couple of guys running around in the dark without flashlights cursing and swearing to appear cool—like Extreme Paranormal. (For Extreme Paranormal, picture the Jackass franchise done with ghosts.) Somewhere in the middle, is a balanced show like Ghost Hunters, one of the original and most successful series in this genre. A show in which two plumbers and a rag-tag group of other investigators set out to use what they deem to be scientific tools to track and record ghosts. They’ve been doing it for a long time, seven years now, and they’re honest in their pursuit whether or not the “science” they use is altogether scientific.

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My friend Sara posted this on my Facebook Wall in response to the video I linked to earlier.

Leave it to someone to find all of the answers to the questions we were left with after the LOST finale.

It’s as amusing as the original LOST questions video was. Pretty clever.

Well, it’s over, and almost right away juries around the world began to weigh in on what was one of the most hyped series finales in recent memory. The LOST finale: The End. Before the final episode opinions, objections, predictions and criticisms flew left, right and centre. Would we have our questions answered? Would we be left hanging? Would we be satisfied? Would fans feel appropriately rewarded for their six years of loyalty? Since everyone and their uncle is offering their review I, of course, must add mine to the chorus of voices. So, here we go…

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I rarely like the stuff put out by College Humor but, for a LOST fan, this video is absolutely brilliant: