And just like that – okay, after a three year wait – Severance is back! Thank Kier. And what a delightful way to throw us back into the world of Lumon, Innies, Outies (of whom we saw next to nothing this week), and Macrodata Refinement. And, I would be remiss not to mention, some absolutely […]
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Based in Chicago, Jean has been writing about television since 2012, for Entertainment Fuse and now Pop Culture Maniacs. She finds the best part of the gig to be discovering new and interesting shows to recommend to people (feel free to reach out to her via Twitter if you want some recs).
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Skeleton Crew – The Real Good Guys Review
Now that was the kind of episode I’ve been waiting for over this last uneven string of storytelling. Sure, it was the finale so the series was able to really pull out all the stops (and definitely blew its CGI budget), but this was a series (season?) finale that managed to pull together the remaining […]
Skeleton Crew – We’re Gonna Be in So Much Trouble Review
If I could have one wish in this new year, it would be that all television series start treating their episodes like actual episodes of a TV series and not just a single act break in a longer film. Because man was I annoyed at the close of this week’s episode – the penultimate episode […]
Severance Season Two Review
I won’t bury the lede for you: the long-awaited second season of Severance is great. I easily found myself swept back up into the world of Lumon, rewatching several of my screeners just to be sure that I caught everything I needed to catch to piece together the various arcs unspooling this time around (a […]
Skeleton Crew – Zero Friends Again Review
This week’s Skeleton Crew didn’t skimp on the CGI set pieces (that escape of the ship from the jaws of the techno crab metal crushing thing was pretty cool to see), but it excelled in an area that the series has been lacking in past installments: focusing on the interpersonal character beats at the heart […]
Squid Game Season Two Review
The journey to get to a second season of Squid Game was, well, pretty emblematic of the series itself. First, there was the creator’s (Hwang Dong-hyuk) personal need to create the second season – despite wanting to initially tell a complete story in season one – because, despite the series becoming the most popular show […]
Skeleton Crew – You Have A Lot To Learn About Pirates Review
At this stage of the game, I think it’s safe to say we’re going to be getting more of the “ten hour movie” episode treatment (or in the case of Skeleton Crew, the eight hour movie treatment) rather than the “this is a television series, so episodes are actually self-contained stories being told in service […]
Skeleton Crew – Can’t Say I Remember No At Attin Review
One of the things I really don’t like about the bulk of the recent Star Wars television shows is their penchant for ending an episode at what feels like a commercial break and not the natural stopping point for an episode of television. My guess is that this habit – of which Skeleton Crew was […]
Laid Review
Laid, the new Peacock series that stars a great Stephanie Hsu (who I continue to believe should have won the Oscar over Jamie Lee Curtis for their film Everything Everywhere All At Once, but I digress), is a mixed bag. On the one hand, the series – which is adapted from an Australian series of […]
Skeleton Crew – Very Interesting, As An Astrogation Problem Review
This week’s installment of Skeleton Crew kept up the theme of expositional dumping, letting us know just what At Attin was – but crucially not what it currently is – and shedding a little light on just who Jude Law’s character is – since he’s absolutely not a Jedi, even if he does appear to […]