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Percy Jackson and the Olympians is built on a pretty interesting premise: What would happen if, in modern times, the children of the Greek gods were made aware of their parentage and found themselves in a tug-of-war between various gods for control of Mount Olympus? After all, what adolescent – and despite broad appeal, these […]
When discussing the final batch of episodes in The Crown’s sixth and final season with a friend, he mentioned something that got me thinking about how the series slowly, over the course of the last four seasons, fell apart. He lamented that the latter seasons of the series couldn’t manage to capture the heart and […]
It’s that time of year again. The temperature is dropping, the days are growing shorter, and 2023 is drawing to a close. Which can only mean one thing: It’s time for Pop Culture Maniacs’ annual TV Top Ten list! This year in television was a tumultuous one, as it was for all of Hollywood, with […]
“The Giggle,” the last of the three 60th Anniversary Doctor Who specials was a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, we got to see another clash with the Toymaker – and see a stellar guest starring turn from Neil Patrick Harris. On the other, Russel T. Davies opted to play fast and […]
Culprits, a new British thriller, isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. It’s a show that knows the story it is telling isn’t particularly novel – we’ve all seen stories like this one before – but it’s determined to provide us with exceptional performances, great direction, strong fight choreography, and compelling characters in order to take […]
What a wonderful surprise at the close of the episode – Wilf (the late, great Bernard Cribbins) reunited with the Doctor once more! Sure, we knew Cribbins would be appearing this season, but I hadn’t expected him to be around at this stage of the game (with hopefully another appearance in the finale of these […]
Slow Horses, the British spy series that has, calmly and quietly, becomes the best thing on AppleTV+ by a mile, is back for another round of intrigue and head-shaking screw-ups as the team of Slough House try to outsmart their latest adversaries and try not to take down all of MI5 with them. If you’ve […]
Full disclosure, if I had to pick a favorite season of the modern Doctor Who it would, without question, be season four. The relationship between the Doctor – played in this incarnation by David Tennant – and Donna – the impeccable Catherine Tate, showing she has the dramatic chops to more than match her comedic […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A nun, who lives out in a convent in the middle of nowhere, is stalked by a world-famous AI algorithm and given a quest to find and destroy the Holy Grail. In exchange, the all-powerful AI will give the nun – who, coincidentally, blames the AI for the […]
The first half of The Crown’s sixth and final season covers, as you might expect based on where the series left things at the end of season five, the final weeks of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed’s life before their tragic death in Paris as well as the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. Alas, it […]