It’s been awhile since television audiences have had a chance to see all that Jennifer Garner is capable of – it’s been a whopping 17 years since Alias, the ABC spy drama that launched Garner’s career went off the air. The Last Thing He Told Me, the AppleTV+ miniseries based on the novel of the […]
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Star Trek: Picard – Vox Review
There comes a point in every season of serialized television where the writers have to make a choice on just how to solve the conundrum that has been driving the plot forward until the climactic moment of the season. There’s no right or wrong answer to whatever choice they make. After all, it was the […]
The Mandalorian – Chapter 23: The Spies
Well, I guess we all knew it was too good to be true. Just when it looked like the Mandalorians would be able to band together, putting aside their differences and uniting to return to Mandalore once more, Moff Gideon had to arrive and spoil the party. And with his return, a number of lingering […]
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season Five Review
The fifth and final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a strange amalgam of the best things about the series (chiefly, its two leading ladies) and the most annoying (the characters, the uneven pacing) – along with the both interesting and frustrating new addition of copious time jumps throughout episodes. In short, if you’ve […]
Ippon Again! Review
Ippon Again!, also known as Mou Ippon, is a judo sports anime directed by Ken Ogiwara. It is based on a Japanese manga series, which has run since October 2018 for total of 21 volumes, written and illustrated by Yu Muraoka. This series was produced by Bakken Record, a division of the Japanese animation company Tatsunoko […]
Star Trek: Picard – Surrender Review
Well, that wasn’t quite the episode I was expecting at this stage of the game for Star Trek: Picard, but it did its job (which was to dispense of our first villain and move the story a step closer to resolving the main conflict of the season – what’s going to happen at Frontier Day). […]
The Mandalorian – Chapter 22: Guns for Hire Review
Well, that was an utterly anticlimactic episode of television. In truth, it felt much more like an episode of Law and Order than an episode of The Mandalorian (complete with the guilty party being the most famous actor who appears at a seemingly inconsequential moment in the action). Sure, we got some big named – […]
Tiny Beautiful Things Review
I had incredibly high hopes for Tiny Beautiful Things. Kathryn Hahn, who is having a hell of a moment, leading a dramedy about a woman falling apart while trying to provide advice to others? That sounds like the recipe for a truly great series. Throw in Merritt Weaver – who always makes everything better, which […]
Schmigadoon! Season Two Review
In my review of season one of Schmigadoon!, I worried that the series might not appeal to those who weren’t, like me, big time musical theatre fans. After all, if you can’t tell your Lerner and Loewe from your Rogers and Hammerstein, would you really care about a television series parodying their biggest hits and […]
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies Review
Have you ever wondered just how the Pink Ladies of the musical Grease got their start? Well, wonder no more, as Paramount+ is continuing to dig deep into their existing IP well of content (after successfully rebooting its once dormant Star Trek franchise over the last several years – well, somewhat successfully) to craft new […]