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Watching Amazon’s newest dark comedy series Upload might give you a sense of deja-vu. A world where you can upload your consciousness upon death to a mainframe that will allow you to “live” again? Yeah, we’ve seen that done before (and, frankly, done better) on Black Mirror, namely the exquisite “San Junipero” episode. A look into […]
The problem with all cat and mouse stories is that once the two seemingly incompatible foes have met, the story loses that key element of tension that pulled it along. Now, with Killing Eve, we’re leagues past that initial meeting, but the series is still trying to chase that same high as we, the audience, […]
On its face, Unorthodox seems like a pretty typical story: A young woman realizes that the life she’s been living – the one she’s been convinced her is what she wants – isn’t the life she wants to lead, so she escapes that life and goes in search of a place where she can truly […]
“Am I bad for you,” Jimmy McGill asks his wife and personal moral center Kim Wexler in the fifth season finale of Better Call Saul. If he’d asked that question at any other point in the series, the answer would have been a resounding yes. After all, Kim was the one thing keeping Jimmy from […]
And just like that, they pulled her back in. We all knew Eve was going to get back in the game sooner rather than later (there’s no show if Eve isn’t working as a spy in some capacity, after all), and Kenny’s death certainly has provided the perfect path back into the life that has […]
One of my chief complaints with the second season of Killing Eve was that the series lacked any real stakes. The season was built around the premise that Eve and Villanelle would work together, which meant that despite Villanelle’s penchant for extreme violence in the name of dealing with her twisted attraction to Eve*, we […]
Last night, TV lost another one of its brilliant, loving, kind, and smart comedies, as Schitt’s Creek, the Canadian series with a heart of polished gold, aired its final episode. While the series ran for six seasons, those of us here in the States were a bit slow on the uptake, only truly embracing the […]
Over the past several weeks, a number of smart, emotionally resonate, and just plain good sci-fi/magical realism shows have premiered. There’s the dark but compelling tech/sci-fi series Devs on FX on Hulu. There’s the magical and charming Dispatches from Elsewhere on AMC. And now there’s Amazon’s beautiful and layered Tales From the Loop, a linked […]
In this age of isolation and quarantine, nothing captures the international zeitgeist like a crazy, ripped from the headlines, true story. After all, if we’re all stuck at home, why wouldn’t the world want to dive into something as flat-out insane as Tiger King, the Netflix limited docudrama series that dropped last week. Unlike most […]
So, over the course of this extremely uneven debut season for Star Trek: Picard, I’ve spent a lot of time writing about ways in which the series didn’t work. And, frankly, I didn’t love doing that. What I wanted to spend these ten weeks doing was reveling in how wonderful it was to have Patrick […]