The Shannara Chronicles - A Refreshing Adventure in a Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Future

I was sitting idly on the couch, drinking cola and playing Red Flush online casino games while my better half was channel surfing besides me. I was completely immersed in my game, but dragged back with my feet on the ground when I heard a name - Terry Brooks - coming from the telly. And from MTV?!

Two sheep fight in a competition in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China on August 1, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)

Archive: A group of people dressed as Santa Claus wait for the bus on December 1960, London, England. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) Modern Day: Passengers wait for busses in Holborn on November 24, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

Members of the Mayossa Folk Dance Group pour water on young women in Kiskunmajsa, some 140 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, April 2, 2018. According to a several hundred years old tradition of Hungarian villages young men pour water on young women who in exchange present their sprinklers with beautifully colored eggs on Easter Monday. (Photo by Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP Photo)

A pine marten – one of a few wild mammals doing well in Britain (although they number just 3,700). A fifth of the country’s wild mammals are at high risk of extinction, research shows. (Photo by Maurice Flynn/The Mammal Society)

People walk past part of an outdoor display as preparations continue for the upcoming pop culture convention Comic Con in San Diego, California, U.S., July 17, 2018. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)

Servicewomen march during a rehearsal for the Independence Day military parade in central Kiev, Ukraine on August 20, 2018. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

A mannequin stands in a textile factory in Madrid, Spain May 19, 2014. (Photo by Andrea Comas/Reuters)