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This review contains spoilers for the final, fifth season of Hulu’s The Bear. Over the years, The Bear has struggled with cohesion. Its highs have been truly spectacular, providing episodes of television that will hold up for decades as examples of just what you can do with a single character or a single, unbroken shot. […]
After a very long two year wait, we’re back with season three of House of the Dragon. And what a perfectly okay season premiere it was. We got the much-anticipated Battle of the Gullet – an event many fans of the book expected in season two, but budget constraints pushed to this season opener. And […]
I was wary of starting Star City, the spin-off of AppleTV+’s For All Mankind for two reasons. The first was that the mothership had gone from being one of the best shows on television in its first and season seasons (seriously, that second season is an all-time great, especially the finale) to falling off a […]
Cape Fear, the new AppleTV+ adaptation of John MacDonald’s “The Executioners” as well as two previous film installments with the same name*, did something that most new TV series can’t do: It got me to keep watching all the way through my screeners despite me being pretty sure that I didn’t like the series. How […]
Misguided is a sitcom pilot made for Channel 4’s Comedy Blaps series of one-off shorts. Rhiannon (Lauren Morais) is an ex-popular girl who is forced to join the most unpopular organisation imaginable: the Girl Guides. She has to spend a day with nerdy good-girl Kate (Nerys Amber Stocks), Libby (Meg Alexandra), who likes older men, and Nisha (Nia […]
There’s something to be said for a show that is up to its neck with actors of a certain age who have decades of experience in front of the camera. It’s not always true that this particular line-up leads to television gold, but more often than not – especially when paired with an interesting, unique […]
There’s something about Nicholas Cage that makes him the perfect lead for a noir. His hangdog face calls back to Humphrey Bogart – as does his ability to turn that frown upside down at the right moment to show us that he’s got just enough game to pull a gorgeous dame (while still mourning the […]
I really wanted to like Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, the new dramedy from AppleTV+. After all, it stars two of my favorite television actors – Emmy winners Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black and She-Hulk) and Murray Bartlett (White Lotus and The Last of Us). And the premise is at least a bit interesting: A woman in the […]
I’ve been a bit vexed by the entirety of the Prime adaptation (or really, continuation at this stage of the game) of the Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman* novel Good Omens. Season one was a faithful, if rather uninspired, adaptation of the novel. Season two was more or less an excuse to delve back into […]
The fifth and final season of FX on Hulu’s The Bear won’t premiere until June 25, but in a surprise, the streaming service dropped an hour-long, standalone episode of the series this week.* Subtitled Gary, the episode was a prequel to the series as a whole, following Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and the late Mikey (Jon […]