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The approach Lovecraft Country has taken to episode structure in its short time on the air has certainly been unique. After burning through enough plot for an entire season during the show’s first two episodes, episodes three and four have each tackled a particular film genre (haunted house in episode three and an Indiana Jones-style […]
This review discusses the second season of the Amazon series The Boys. While I have avoided including any spoilers (or, rather, what I consider to be spoilers), if you would like to watch the season knowing absolutely nothing about what will happen and without any idea of where things might go, I would recommend avoiding […]
Lovecraft Country‘s third installment, “Holy Ghost,” was a curious change in narrative structure. For its first two episodes, it seemed as though the series would be a tightly serialized drama. But this week, the story jumped forward several weeks from the tragic events of Ardham and gave us a haunted house story that, on first […]
Well, that was a hell of a lot of plot to churn through in a single hour of television. And to remove two of the show’s most recognizable actors from the gameboard this early in the run of a series (that would be Courtney B. Vance – who certainly could still come back from the […]
As someone who has never read anything by HP Lovecraft or Matt Rush’s “Lovecraft Country” novel, I really didn’t know what to expect when I tuned in for the first episode of Lovecraft Country on HBO this weekend. Although, with a title like “Sundown,” I was perhaps a bit more prepared than folks who haven’t […]
I think it might be time to have a talk about tonal balance in writing, because boy is Wynonna Earp missing the mark this season. It’s all well and good to have jokes in a drama. It’s nice to blow off steam after a particularly intense string of episodes. Some of the best dramas of […]
In the past week I’ve watched both seasons of Netflix’s Umbrella Academy and I have to say it was one of the most frustrating viewing experiences I’ve had this year. It’s really easy to write a rave of a series or to pan a season of TV. It’s much harder to write about a show […]
A few housekeeping notes before I start this review: This review presupposes that you have watched the episode and it will discuss anything and everything that happens in it. Turn back now if you don’t want to be spoiled. I may speculate on what I think might happen (or what I would hope to see) […]
A few housekeeping notes before I start this review: This review presupposes that you have watched the episode and it will discuss anything and everything that happens in it. Turn back now if you don’t want to be spoiled. I may speculate on what I think might happen (or what I would hope to see) […]
It’s been a long time coming (about two years, to be exact, thanks to some ridiculous issues with SyFy’s deal with the production), but season four of Wynonna Earp is here. And, after watching the two episodes made available for critics, it’s off to a hell of a start. For those of you who might […]