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Now, that was a fun, albeit pretty light in terms of any real story*, episode. As a fan of Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia is great and deserves more to do), I’m always happy when the writers remember that she exists and let her take center stage (even if that’s only happened a grand total of […]
Fightland, the new Starz gangland crime drama from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (who is executive producing the series following the success of Power on the same network), shares a lot of its DNA with a lot of other stories you’ll have seen before – among them Peaky Blinders, Mobland, and A Thousand Blows. Its bones […]
I was not a fan of season three of Ted Lasso. It was overlong, unfocused, and, somehow, still shockingly rushed at the end. So, when it was announced that the series would be returning after a three-year hiatus – this time, with Ted returning to Richmond to coach their up-and-coming women’s team – I was […]
When a friend asked me how I would describe the fourth season of Ted Lasso, the best description I could come up with – based largely on this season premiere – was a warm hug. Because, considering the polarizing nature of the show’s third season – which I enjoyed at the outset and then was […]
Oh Rhaenyra, you’re in danger, girl. And not just from the newly risen Aegon and Sunfyre, who are now almost certainly on their way to take back what is theirs. You can’t trust Daemon – although, can you really blame him for wanting to protect his daughter (who he couldn’t have cared less about a […]
The interesting trick of Anne Rice’s “The Vampire Lestat” novel is that, after an incredibly successful novel telling the story of Louis, Lestat, Claudia, Armand, and Daniel Malloy from the perspective of Louis (and, in the TV series, Armand as well), we get to see the thoughts of the brash, angry, and so selfish Lestat. […]
Now that’s more like it. What an episode. Easily one of the best in the entire series up to this point. As those who watched AppleTV+’s hit Widow’s Bay this spring know, it’s not easy to craft an effective horror episode. You have to balance legitimate scares – having creepy ghouls walking in the background […]
Thank god. Finally. Ser Cristen Cole is no more. And what a mundane end to such an odious man. For a character who began as a potential love interest for both Rhaenyra and Alicent – both of whom ultimately rejected him because, let’s face it, he’s not a catch – to meet his demise on […]
I’ve never been a huge fan of time travel Star Trek stories. Sure, you occasionally get a truly great one like “City on the Edge of Forever” in The Original Series, but more often than not, they end up like this one. A device to twist a historical moment in time into something that our […]
After I finished watching the fourth season premiere of Strange New Worlds, I will admit that I got nervous. This is how they’re opening the penultimate season of the show? And after a third season that was more miss than hit, it didn’t bode well for what was to come. After all, we still had […]