One of the benefits of being a half hour comedy is that plot can move quickly – in fact it has to move quickly – to accommodate the shorter episode running time. So, where it might have taken a hour-long drama version of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law two hour-long episodes to get Jen ensconced at […]
Author: Jean Henegan
House of the Dragon – The Heirs of the Dragon Review
Well, here we are, just over three years after the finale of Game of Thrones, the sour taste of that final season of one of the most popular television series of the 21st century still lingering on our tongues, to begin another saga set in Westeros. This time, instead of diving into a sprawling epic […]
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – A Normal Amount of Rage Review
She-Hulk has officially arrived in the MCU in the form of a half-hour comedy – another first for the MCU – with the always great Tatiana Maslany taking on the dual role of Jennifer Walters, human attorney at law, and She-Hulk, the green alter-ego who Jen maintains remarkable control over despite her cousin Bruce’s (yes, […]
Better Call Saul Series Final Post-Mortem
When it was first announced, all those years ago, that Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould would be putting together a prequel series to Gilligan’s Breaking Bad (on which Gould had been a key writer and director), I, like many critics, was worried. After all, Breaking Bad had just ended a run that cemented it as […]
A League of Their Own Season One Review
I am a massive fan of the 1992 film A League of Their Own. It’s one of my favorite films. My sister and I, both of whom played softball competitively (although I’m sure she would want me to stress that she was both better than me and also more dedicated to the sport, as I […]
The Best Show You Aren’t Watching: Evil
When I last wrote about Evil, it was back in its first season – when the series was a solid, if not remarkable, drama on CBS. I’ve spent the last few weeks binging the second and the first half of the show’s third season and I’m here to tell you that the series is in […]
Paper Girls Season One Review
Considering the massive success of Stranger Things, it’s a bit surprising that we haven’t seen more networks and streaming sites attempting to find and create their own series centered around tweens stumbling into a situation where they will be called upon to save the world from outside threats. After all, there was the great “What’s […]
The Best Show You Aren’t Watching: Our Flag Means Death
If you’ve jumped on the What We Do in the Shadows train (the excellent third season of which is currently airing on FX and Hulu), you’ve likely heard of Our Flag Means Death, since it includes appearances from members of the Kiwi brain trust that brought us Shadows. And if you haven’t yet watched Shadows, […]
Ms. Marvel – No Normal Review
And just like that, Ms. Marvel is over (but fear not – she will return in 2023’s The Marvels, more on that at the end of the review). What a joyously fun ride this six-episode limited series turned out to be. Sure, there were some missteps along the way, but when the series stuck to […]
Black Bird Series Review
On the surface, Black Bird, the new psychological thriller from AppleTV+, seems like something we’ve seen before. And really, it is. An adaptation of James Keene’s autobiographical novel “In With the Devil,” we follow Jimmy Keene (a great Taron Egerton, showing range he’s never had the chance to delve into before), a mid-level drug kingpin […]