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“Rise of the Numbericons: The Movie” attempts an extraordinary experiment by being a Rick and Morty episode without Rick. Water-T has returned from exile to his home planet just as it gets attacked by the Numbericons. The only hope for The Alphbetrians is a pendant called the ‘I of Harmony.’ To open it, Water-T must see his […]
It’s that time of year again. The temperature is dropping, the days are growing shorter, and 2023 is drawing to a close. Which can only mean one thing: It’s time for Pop Culture Maniacs’ annual TV Top Ten list! This year in television was a tumultuous one, as it was for all of Hollywood, with […]
“The Giggle,” the last of the three 60th Anniversary Doctor Who specials was a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, we got to see another clash with the Toymaker – and see a stellar guest starring turn from Neil Patrick Harris. On the other, Russel T. Davies opted to play fast and […]
Sometimes Summer is involved in Rick and Morty’s adventures and with “Wet Kuat Amortican Summer” she has her first episode named after her. As a reward for completing her chores for Rick, Summer gets an attribute slider. When Morty finds out he becomes jealous, which starts a chain of events that includes Summer and Morty […]
Culprits, a new British thriller, isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. It’s a show that knows the story it is telling isn’t particularly novel – we’ve all seen stories like this one before – but it’s determined to provide us with exceptional performances, great direction, strong fight choreography, and compelling characters in order to take […]
What a wonderful surprise at the close of the episode – Wilf (the late, great Bernard Cribbins) reunited with the Doctor once more! Sure, we knew Cribbins would be appearing this season, but I hadn’t expected him to be around at this stage of the game (with hopefully another appearance in the finale of these […]
Star Trek: Lower Decks is a mature animation which combines elements of the adventure, comedy, and sci-fi genres. Series creator Mike McMahan is known as a co-creator of Solar Opposites, a producer on Rick and Morty and as a consulting producer on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. This is the ninth series in the Star […]
The previous episode of Rick and Morty, “Unmortricken” was a surprisingly serious and important episode. The follow-up episode “Rickfending Your Mort” aimed to lighten things after something so heavy. Rick has become depressed and dejected. To get him out of his funk, Morty attempts to cash in a load of his Adventure Cards. Rick questions this […]
Slow Horses, the British spy series that has, calmly and quietly, becomes the best thing on AppleTV+ by a mile, is back for another round of intrigue and head-shaking screw-ups as the team of Slough House try to outsmart their latest adversaries and try not to take down all of MI5 with them. If you’ve […]
Full disclosure, if I had to pick a favorite season of the modern Doctor Who it would, without question, be season four. The relationship between the Doctor – played in this incarnation by David Tennant – and Donna – the impeccable Catherine Tate, showing she has the dramatic chops to more than match her comedic […]