The second episode of Noughts + Crosses sees more exploration of the world of Albion and shows the growing relationship between its young leads. Tensions are rising after the death of a young Nought man due to police brutality. The tensions are stoked by Jack Dorn (Shaun Dingwall), the self-declared leader of the Liberation Militia, […]
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ZeroZeroZero (Spoiler-Free) Review
One of the positive side effects of the current “social distancing” protocol is that it is allowing me to dig out from under the pile of screeners I’ve allowed to amass in the past few weeks. The first show on the list for me to tackle? The recently released Amazon series ZeroZeroZero, a drama that […]
Star Trek: Picard – Broken Pieces Review
Well, that was largely anti-climactic, wasn’t it? After an entire season musing about the origin of the attack on Mars – an attack that shattered the Romulan people, ended the Federation’s synthetic research, and broke one Jean-Luc Picard – we found out that it was a splinter sect of the Tal Shiar that decided they […]
Queen Sono (Spoiler-Free) Review
If you’ve ever felt nostalgic for Alias, the early 2000s ABC spy drama that launched Jennifer Garner’s career, Queen Sono is definitely a show for you. With a first season clocking in at a very manageable six episodes (all of which run under an hour, with some even closer to 30 minutes), the first ever […]
Noughts + Crosses Episode One Review
Based on Malorie Blackman’s Noughts + Crosses series of novels the TV adaptation sees the BBC enter into the YA dystopian genre. 700 years ago in an alternative timeline, the Aprican Empire had conquered Europe, including the British Isles. In the lands of Albion society has split into two classes: the light-skinned Noughts and black-skinned Crosses. The […]
Devs (Spoiler-Free) Review
Devs, the first series to hit new “FX on Hulu” rebrand of the FX network*, is a very mixed bag. After watching the first two episodes of the series, I honestly don’t know how to feel about it. If you’re a fan of Alex Garland’s other work (Ex Machina and Annihilation), I suspect you’ll be […]
Star Trek: Picard – Nepenthe Review
I’ll admit “Nepenthe” was the one episode of Star Trek: Picard that I was the most wary of watching this season, largely because I feared it would just turn into one giant nostalgia bomb – stalling out the plot and making me wish for things (characters, plotlines, more nostalgia) that the series is never going […]
No Kidding? LEGO Masters is Fun (Spoiler-Free Review)
I’m not a fan of cat videos on the Internet. I don’t like when people re-watch TV series (no matter how good they are) instead of watching new TV (because they should be reading books after all). I don’t understand how people can spend hours on Instagram or Pinterest. So the mere idea that grown […]
Dispatches from Elsewhere (Spoiler-Free) Review
On a warm September day several years ago, I was blindfolded in the lobby of a Chicago theatre and sent off on a quest through the Loop with just a cell phone and a series of videos. I spent the next couple of hours interacting with actors and being pushed out of my comfort zone. […]
Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season Two (Spoiler-Free) Review
I have never watched a single Formula 1 race. In truth, I’ve never watched any auto racing at all. It’s just not how I would choose to spend my time. Which makes it all the more surprising that I absolutely loved the Netflix documentary series Formula 1: Drive to Survive. I burned through the first […]