The Gates

Janina Gavankar heads to True Blood

Janina Gavankar, who we most recently saw in supernatural series “The Gates” is set to become a series regular on “True Blood”. You know the drill, here at Snarkerati, if you don’t want to know what part she’ll play, avert your eyes for the next paragraph. Gavankar is set to play a schoolteacher, who happens...
By Angela Share

The Gates cancelation official

Well this news sucks, despite not really being a surprise. The Gates won’t be back for a second season. Actor Frank Grillo stated on Twitter last week a source had told him the series wouldn’t be back for a second season. This week comes the tweet “Don’t shoot the messenger. The Gates is officially cancelled....
By Angela Share

The Gates needs a second season ABC make it so

The Gates is one of my favourite shows, mostly down to Rhona Mitra and Janina Gavankar who are fantastic in their roles. Despite going through a period of ‘meh’ part way through, with too many storylines and in a sense, too many characters doing too many things, things picked up. Toward the end of the...

The Gates just gets better

So who else has stuck with ABC vampire / werewolf show The Gates? I have to say I am loving this show at the moment and I think it’s gotten better as it’s gone along. The storylines seem to be more structured now and not all over the place, like they were at the beginning...
By Angela Share

Annoying TV characters you wish would leave

It takes a very special show to have a cast that is loved in its entirety, so more often than not there will be one or two characters in a show you love that you wish would leave. Thought we’d throw it out there and see who annoys y’all when it comes to your favorite...
By Angela Share

The Gates S01E02 What Lies Beneath

So we’re back, through The Gates with episode two of this ABC series. Please be aware as this is thoughts on the episode, it will contain spoilers. Firstly a question, the mayor of the town is shifty and seems well aware of the special folk within The Gates, so why on earth has he hired...
By Angela Share

US Summer TV preview new & returning TV shows to keep in mind

Wow with all the cool shows now finished or ending shortly, there’s loads of new TV shows and new seasons due to start over the next couple of months and Snarkerati is here to let you know what shows you should be jotting into your diary. Burn Notice had its season four premiere June 3rd...
By Angela Share

A reminder to open The Gates June 20

  Not too long to go before ABC opens “The Gates” to viewers and I wanted to put up a reminder for those that missed my previous post. This show looks like it will be alright (as these sorts of shows go) and lord knows a show could do worse than to have the gorgeous...
By Angela Share

ABCs new show The Gates is apparently Desperate Housewives meets Buffy

  When a show is touted as having witches, werewolves and vampires in it, color me excited. When a show is touted as having one vampire be the one and only Rhona Mitra, I’m there. The Gates is a new show by ABC, starring Mitra as a vampire finding it difficult to stay on the...
By Angela Share