I’ve complained in the past about Andor feeling more like a film cut into episodic slices, with endings that didn’t push the narrative forward, leaving us with a lack of momentum leading into the week-long wait until the next episode. But “Nobody’s Listening!” absolutely crushed it with its end of episode button and I cannot […]
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The Best Show You Aren’t Watching: The Patient
Looking for a sharp, well-written, well-acted thriller to watch this weekend? Well, have I got a recommendation for you. In the era of too much TV, I suspect this gem of a psychological thriller – well, psychological drama – likely slipped past you (also, because FX opted not to air it on their broadcast wing […]
Andor – Narkina 5 Review
There are few things I enjoy more than when a series pulls together an episode that allows us to see just how a seemingly disparate group of characters – scattered around a country, planet, galaxy – are all interconnected in ways you wouldn’t have anticipated when the series begin. “Narkina 5” was that episode for […]
Doctor Who – The Power of the Doctor Review
The Jodie Whittaker/Chris Chibnall era of Doctor Who has come to an end with the 90-minute-long special “The Power of the Doctor.” It was a special that was a fan service ladened event to celebrate the BBC’s centenary. The Doctor sees some of her greatest threats uniting. The Cybermasters have been terrorising space and captured a […]
House of the Dragon – The Black Queen Review
RIP Lucerys Valeryon, Heir of Driftmark. We hardly knew ye (seriously, we hardly knew you – as in I had to look up how to spell Lucerys). It’s all fun and games until your uncle, who looks as old as his mother – seriously, for all the excellent casting work the show has accomplished, and […]
The Peripheral Season One Review
After watching six of the eight episodes of The Peripheral – a new sci-fi puzzlebox drama from Prime Video – I honestly don’t know what to make of the show. An adaptation of William Gibson’s book of the same name (part of a series of books, which one presumes Prime is hoping to adapt further […]
Andor – Announcement Review
After the highs of “The Eye,” it would have been easy for Andor to take a beat, allow its characters to collect themselves, and take a week off before delving into the next great set piece of the series. So, it says a lot about the series that “Announcement” felt almost as tense as the […]
House of the Dragon – The Green Council
Leading up to that final moment – you know the one, Rhaenys sitting atop her dragon, staring down Alicent and her entire family – I had already planned my entire review for “The Green Council,” the penultimate episode of season one of House of the Dragon. I was going to dissect Alicent’s state of mind […]
The Rings of Power – Alloyed Review
Well, that was a finale that delivered on all the promises the series set forth in its premiere. We were shown the identity of Sauron (which I was wrong about last week, although I’ll give myself partial credit for outlining all the ways Halbrand could be Sauron in a previous review), we learned that The […]
She-Hulk – Whose Show is This? Review
Well, I’ll say one thing: It’s hard to write a review of a television series when the writers essentially craft a finale that says, “We’ve heard your past complaints, anticipated your current worries, and course corrected to make them all moot.” Because that’s essentially what “Whose Show is This?”, the first season finale of She-Hulk […]