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Extraordinary, the new British superhero comedy series coming to Hulu this week, has an apt title. After watching the entire first series, I found myself – on more than one occasion – calling the series extraordinary when mentioning it to friends and family. It’s absolutely better than anyone would think it would be. After all, […]
As we continue to wait for the third (and reportedly final) season of AppleTV+’s hit comedy series Ted Lasso, the streaming service has provided us with something to tide us over: Shrinking, a new comedy series from the team behind Ted Lasso (that would be Bill “Scrubs” Lawrence and Brett “Roy Kent” Goldstein), along with […]
Well shit. I didn’t expect that. Perhaps it’s years of conditioning from The Walking Dead and/or Game of Thrones, to expect that a named actor (in this case, the great Anna Torv) wouldn’t be dispatched with this quickly in a show. Sure, I knew that ultimately, The Last of Us was a buddy story about […]
I’m not one for reality TV shows – unless it’s a competition cooking show, and then I’m all in – but I had heard some rumblings about the new Peacock series The Traitors, so I took some time over the holiday weekend to give it a look. And, a mere 36 hours later, I had […]
Before I get into the review of the premiere of The Last of Us, some housekeeping notes. If you listened to our recent Pop Culture Maniacs podcast on video game adaptations, you might know that I am not a gamer. I don’t play video games (outside of the occasional Mario Kart race) and I don’t […]
On New Year’s Day, Netflix released the heist drama Kaleidoscope, a series with some solid names in the cast (Giancarlo Esposito, Rufus Sewell, and Jai Courtney the most famous of the lot) but a show that was designed to catch the zeitgeist thanks to a twist: You could watch the eight-episode season in any order […]
Claire Danes is very, very, very good at acting. If you’ve been on social media in the past week, you’ve likely seen some form of that sentence from someone, and that’s likely made you wonder just why people are declaring such a thing at this time – after all, Danes has had a prolific career […]
‘Tis the season, and as we all gather together (in a wholly responsible manner, naturally) with friends and family, one of the universal truths of end of the year get togethers is baking. Yes, baking. You’ll be baking (or buying baked goods if you aren’t blessed with the ability to master your flour, butter, and […]
It’s that time of year again. The days are short, the temps are falling (at least here in Chicagoland), and it’s nearly the end of 2022. Which means that it’s time for my annual Top Ten TV Shows list! It was a heck of a year for television. Network comedies roared back into prominence with […]
I’ll fully admit to missing the boat on Somebody Somewhere when it came out in January. Sure, I’d heard it was something special – and when it was renewed this spring by HBO, I heard how thrilled my fellow critics were at the news – but I never got around to watching it until last […]