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I’m a massive fan of The Great British Bake Off (or The Great British Baking Show, due to copyright issues in the US), the UK’s greatest television export of the last decade. And, if social media and my conversations with friends and family have taught me anything, pretty much everyone else is, too. But, as the […]
As someone who grew up watching sci-fi TV shows (and was very careful about never revealing that I watched such shows because that was a sure-fire way to be made fun of in the 90s), I’ve loved seeing so many people on my social media timelines expressing their love for Amazon’s excellent series The Expanse. […]
The biggest benefit to television is that it allows writers to spend time developing characters over the course of hours across a season, rather than being confined to the mere two-hour window provided by most films. As I’ve written about before in these pieces, that was the greatest boon I could see from Marvel branching […]
Made For Love, the new dramedy from HBO Max, isn’t the most original of ideas. For one, it’s an adaptation of the 2017 novel from Allison Nutting of the same name (Nutting is co-creator and a writer on the series as well). But it also has roots in several past Black Mirror episodes (including the […]
When I began recapping WandaVision, I wrote that I was worried the series would feel more like doing homework for the upcoming Doctor Strange film (since Wanda had already been announced as a key character for that film) than a standalone series. After all, why bother to make a TV show about MCU characters when […]
Amazing how much better a show like The Falcon and The Winter Soldier becomes when you allow the titular characters (who have a proven track record of solid chemistry together) to actually work with one another! And, with a lot of the table-setting and expositional work handled in the series premiere (noting how messed up […]
On Thursday, March 18, HBOMax (and by extension, Warner Brothers) released the “Snyder Cut” – writer-director Zack Snyder’s recut version of Warner Brother’s 2017 disappointment Justice League, the culmination of a years-long campaign by a very vocal segment of the internet who hated the original version of the film and demanded that the studio allow […]
There’s a history in television of outgoing showrunners – the person or people who are the last word in the narrative flow and character development within a TV show – ending their run on the series with a major revelation or cliffhanger, thus forcing the new showrunner to figure a way out of a seemingly […]
Last year, I wrote about how Netflix has found a niche in the college sports documentary corner of the documentary game, churning out the excellent Cheer and the Last Chance U series (along with the less popular, but still compelling, QB1). Which, for someone like me who adores a good college sports documentary, has been […]
Finales are notoriously difficult to execute successfully when a show is just a simple procedural drama or episodic sitcom. That degree of difficulty grows exponentially when the series has a rabid fan base and has presented a quasi-puzzle box tale throughout its run (and if the show is all of that, plus years of waiting […]