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There’s a lot to unpack with this week’s installment of True Detective: Night Country, from the lingering questions regarding the role the supernatural is playing in the case (or is it something much more mundane, like mental health issues – something that has been suggested with Evangeline’s sister, Julia’s, continued refusal to treat what appears […]
Here we are, back in the land of True Detective a decade after the much lauded first season of the series premiered on HBO. What would follow were two additional seasons, one atrociously bad and one that wasn’t quite as bad, but still neither series would capture the strengths and the pop culture cache of […]
In the last five years of so, there’s been a resurgence of the murder mystery as a viable story both on the big and small screen. From Kenneth Branagh’s insistence on portraying Hercule Poirot in a series of Agatha Christie adaptations, to Rian Johnson’s excellent Knives Out series, to Only Murders in the Building becoming […]
When the news dropped back in 2023 that Echo, the limited series starring Alaqua Cox as the title character – reprising the role she briefly played in 2021’s limited series Hawkeye – would be dropped in a single batch of five episodes (a first for a Disney+ MCU series), rumors started swirling that the series […]
On paper, Criminal Record, AppleTV+’s new crime thriller, sounds like a sure bet. The series, which twists and turns through a rehashing of a past murder investigation that might have landed the wrong man in prison, stars the exceptional pairing of Peter Capaldi in the role of grizzled elder Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty and […]
I will admit to not be a huge fan of season one of What If?, the animated MCU series that allowed for a bit of fun to emerge into the convoluted world of Marvel – and that allowed some of our dearly departed characters the chance to appear in some more stories (even if not […]
You know your enjoying the latest incarnation of Doctor Who when your only complaint is that the latest sonic screwdriver is a bridge too far in terms of qualifying as anything in the realm of a “screwdriver.” Because that is such a minor quibble to have in terms of the story, characters, and aesthetic of […]
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 […]