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A prequel is a thorny undertaking. First, you need to justify why anyone needs to learn the story of what happened before the seminal (or, really, just popular) story that succeeds this jump into the past. And once you’ve done that, the story you’re telling needs to be good enough to stand up to that […]
Welcome to our weekly reviews of VisionQuest, the final piece in the Wanda-Vision trilogy of MCU shows and what appears to be the last television outing for the MCU for the foreseeable future as Disney looks to focus back on film for their superheroes moving forward. Where WandaVision put the focus on Wanda Maximoff and the […]
Avatar: Seven Havens is the long-awaited return of the Avatar animated series. The first three episodes set up a radically new world. 225 years ago, the Avatar caused the Cataclysm, a world-ending event. Civilisation has rebuilt itself as The Seven Havens, with one of them being Ellora. In Ellora are long-lost twin sisters Pavi (Saheli […]
Well, that was a fitting end to a truly muddled season of television. For all of the positive gains Ted Lasso made over the last several episodes – all of which pulled the focus from the host of returning characters (save for Roy and Keeley) and onto the new members of the Lady Greyhounds – […]
Mike Flanagan has done it again – his adaptation of Stephen King’s debut novel Carrie manages to hit on the key themes of the book (the horrors of high school, the pressure to fit in and the hierarchies that feel almost insurmountable, as well as the pressure to conform into the version of who our […]
Well, I was kinda right about what would occur in this week’s Ted Lasso with regard to Anthony Head*, but was very wrong about just who is buying up shares – although I genuinely don’t think the “Zelda is making a play for Richmond” reveal is an earned twist at all. Outside of that bit […]
There’s a moment early on in the eight-episode run of Kill Jackie where Catherine Zeta-Jones (who plays the titular Jackie) is required to break down over the loss of someone very close to her. And Zeta-Jones does her absolute best to emote, crying out, wailing, really trying to sell it. Only, her face? It doesn’t […]
I’ve been hard on Strange New Worlds this season, trying to hold the show to the high standards it set in its first two seasons. And I’ve probably sounded a bit like a broken record, complaining about the “very special episodes” that did nothing to advance either the plot or grow the characters, the really […]
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 […]