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The Five Star Weekend isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. Based on Elin Hilderbrand’s novel of the same name, the story is pretty simple, the execution is solid, and the characters are pretty archetypal. But what the show has going for it is the sensational cast of actors inhabiting this basic tale of friendship, grief, […]
This week in Queen’s Landing, Rhaenyra learned an incredibly difficult but crucial lesson: It’s not easy being Queen. Because it turns out, everyone wants a piece of you – from your fellow nobles and family to the small folk who rely on the crown for aid. And, she also learned, it’s not possible to give […]
I’ve been lukewarm, at best, on the past two seasons of AppleTV+’s post-apocalyptic thriller Silo. It’s a show with a lot of mythology, a lot of questions, and a shockingly high cast turnover rate. And it’s also a show that has been loathe to offer up any answers to the central questions of the series*, […]
Since its premiere 25 years ago, Legally Blonde has managed to stay in the pop culture discourse, spawning a sequel, a Broadway musical, an MTV series about casting the replacement Elle Woods for the Broadway musical, and now, a prequel TV series about just what happened to Elle when she was forced to move from […]
In the pilot of Game of Thrones, Ned Stark teaches Jon, Robb, and Theon a crucial lesson that resonates throughout the rest of the series: He who passes sentence should swing the sword. It might not be the exact lesson Daemon was attempting to teach Rhaenyra as she prepared to ascend to the Iron Throne, […]
This review contains spoilers for the final, fifth season of Hulu’s The Bear. Over the years, The Bear has struggled with cohesion. Its highs have been truly spectacular, providing episodes of television that will hold up for decades as examples of just what you can do with a single character or a single, unbroken shot. […]
After a very long two year wait, we’re back with season three of House of the Dragon. And what a perfectly okay season premiere it was. We got the much-anticipated Battle of the Gullet – an event many fans of the book expected in season two, but budget constraints pushed to this season opener. And […]
I was wary of starting Star City, the spin-off of AppleTV+’s For All Mankind for two reasons. The first was that the mothership had gone from being one of the best shows on television in its first and season seasons (seriously, that second season is an all-time great, especially the finale) to falling off a […]
Cape Fear, the new AppleTV+ adaptation of John MacDonald’s “The Executioners” as well as two previous film installments with the same name*, did something that most new TV series can’t do: It got me to keep watching all the way through my screeners despite me being pretty sure that I didn’t like the series. How […]
There’s something to be said for a show that is up to its neck with actors of a certain age who have decades of experience in front of the camera. It’s not always true that this particular line-up leads to television gold, but more often than not – especially when paired with an interesting, unique […]