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Fans of seasons one and two of Netflix’s The Crown, fear not! I come bringing good news! Despite changing over nearly every single cast member from the shows first two installments (the lone holdover is a pleasant, if brief, surprise early in the third season), I’m happy to report that season three of The Crown […]
This week’s rather straightforward episode of Watchmen (if any episode of Watchmen can ever truly be classified as “straightforward”) opened with a mixed homage to another superhero of the DC universe: Superman. The Clark family, childless Oklahoma farmers, are given a child right before something crashes down from the sky and lands in their cornfield. […]
I’ve never read the His Dark Materials series of novels. I know nothing about the story, the characters, the setting. All I know is what the new HBO adaptation tells me (which, if it’s a good show, should be enough to help understand why the novels have been so popular, and, in theory, to entice […]
So remember how I said in my review of the premiere episode of Watchmen that I wasn’t going to delve too much into the past iterations of the source material? It only took three episodes for me to have to break that promise. After an episode as steeped in the history of masked heroes like […]
“I really want BoJack to be ok.” That’s the sentence I said out loud immediately after finishing episode eight of BoJack Horseman’s sixth and final season (the second half of the season will drop on January 31, 2020 on Netflix). Despite my wish, I’m not sure that’s in the cards for BoJack, who’s own (often […]
I want to preface this review with a disclaimer: Jack Ryan isn’t my kind of show. And that’s perfectly ok. I don’t enjoy action movies all that much, and I found myself less than invested in the spy games going on in season two of the series. So, since I know this isn’t the kind […]
“Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship” was pretty much what one expects from a second episode: answer some of the questions raised in the series premiere, raise several more, and keep the plot moving forward (which, in the realm of Watchmen, means taking a few trips to the past). It was a smart, competent hour of […]
A bit of housekeeping before I jump into my review of the Watchmen series premiere, “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice.” First up, I’ll be reviewing this exquisite new series on a weekly basis here at Pop Culture Maniacs, and I’m happy you’ve opted to join me on this journey. Next, as with […]
Perhaps the best compliment I can give Big Mouth is that when I reached the end of season three, I didn’t realize it and was utterly crushed that there wasn’t another episode to watch. It’s rare to find a show that is both so smart and so soulful – that isn’t afraid to really go […]
Remember when Game of Thrones went off the air back in May and everyone wondered if HBO would ever have another hit show that captured the cultural zeitgeist? Well, who would have thought it would only take them a few months to clean-up once again? For those of us who fell in love (or fell […]