An Introduction

Let's start with the simple stuff, my name is Brian VanAlstyne in real life and DevSop in the cyber world for the most part. If you're reading this, you either came across it by accident or you were directed here by myself or a friend/fan. A fan of what you may ask, my views and opinions on television that I've started to make more public via a podcast I am a co-host of on the Flawedcast Network. That podcast is called TV for Vendetta and I host it with a friend I met on the Punshouse message board, Michael Demko. It's a TV news and review podcast for the most part but we also delve into general entertainment news and just try to have fun with it and each other while relaying information we find useful.

For the most part I'll be using this blog to expand on opinions I come up with on the podcast or create new opinions on topics that we don't get to on the podcast. Also, I'll try and use this to review  things I'm watching that are either currently airing or that I'm catching up on. I'm a massive telelvision fan that admits I probably watch too much. I don't limit myself to good quality as I'll watch anything it seems, except for most reality. But even in that genre I can find myself finding something to watch from time to time. My favorite shows range in style and tone from comedy to sci-fi to procedurals to character-based dramas to serial soap type shows. My top 5 shows vary everytime I'm asked but you will hear me mentions shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friday Night Lights, Sopranos, Fringe, Lost, Community, Castle, Homeland, Newsroom, Sports Night, Freaks & Geeks, Roswell, The League, and so many others. I will watch shows long past their quality has expired because I become invested in characters. And that's what I love about television; the diversity of characters and relationships on television that I can lose myself in and find myself rooting for or against. And it doesn't always have to be the lead characters or the relationships the creators/writers want you to become invested in because they might not be the ones you connect to, but at the end of the day it works out anyway because you're connected to someone and that's what television can be. A connection, an escape and so much more.

Hopefully everyone enjoys reading my opinions and if you find this prior to listening to the podcast, you can find that on iTunes under TV for Vendetta or on the Flawedcast Network at www.flawedcast.net/vendetta and then you can like it on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TVforVendetta

So, pull up a chair, grab some popcorn and a drink and enjoy the wide world of television as brought to you by a Devil.