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Well, that was the first episode from start to finish that felt like a classic Ted Lasso episode. And it’s curious that so much of the main action of the episode didn’t involve our titular character at all. Keeping the action confined within two main arcs* – the culmination of the Roy and Keeley will […]
If there’s one thing that Jon Hamm is great at, it’s playing a morally conflicted man in a bygone era. And in American Hostage, a new MGM+ series based on a true story (and a narrative podcast of that story which also starred Hamm), he’s asked to do just that as he plays Indianapolis radio […]
Sigh. Every time I start to get my hopes up that Strange New Worlds is going to seriously approach a character’s deep internal trauma this season, I end up disappointed. And this exploration of the light and dark sides of La’an was easily the most disappointed I’ve been with the series in a good while […]
Well, that was easily the best episode in weeks as the story started to focus a bit more on the team and less on the extracurricular actions of the legacy characters. We more or less solved the Keeley-Roy relationship drama without allowing the good doctor to be played for a fool*, Ted started to take […]
You may recall that I declared the fifth season of Slow Horses the best of the series’ run last year in my review. Well, I’m here to tell you that the sixth season was even more enjoyable for me – and I suspect, it will be for you as well. Incredibly, this season takes the […]
Unchosen is a religious-themed thriller that features a tremendous cast of British and Irish talent, and it was both compelling and frustrating. The Fellowship of the Divine is a patriarchal, conservative Christian sect based in Surrey. Within that sect are Rosie (Molly Windsor) and Adam (Asa Butterfield), a married couple with Adam being a rising star. […]
Well, on the plus side, this wasn’t a genre-specific episode. But once again, the idea behind the episode – at least the A plot, as the B plot on the planet was more successful – was stronger than the execution of it. And that failure of execution can be tracked to two key pieces of […]
This week’s episode of Ted Lasso was a weird one. On the one hand, there were several really lovely sections that went a long way at fleshing out key characters within the season. And on the other, there were moments so outlandish and strange that they went beyond the point of stretching the bounds of […]
I was all set to really dislike this week’s Strange New World installment. Not because it was based on a soap opera*, but because out of seven episodes this season, six have been “very special episodes” based on a different genre of storytelling. As Alan Sepinwall mentioned in a recent review of the series, if […]
I’m starting to get a bit worried about the direction of this season of Ted Lasso. Perhaps it’s a coincidence that this is also the first episode of the season that wasn’t provided for critics for our pre-season reviews, but we’ve hit the halfway point in the season and are rapidly running out of runway […]