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Better Call Saul Series Final Post-Mortem
When it was first announced, all those years ago, that Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould would be putting together a prequel series to Gilligan’s Breaking Bad (on which Gould had been a key writer and director), I, like many critics, was worried. After all, Breaking Bad had just ended a run that cemented it as […]
The Best Show You Aren’t Watching: Evil
When I last wrote about Evil, it was back in its first season – when the series was a solid, if not remarkable, drama on CBS. I’ve spent the last few weeks binging the second and the first half of the show’s third season and I’m here to tell you that the series is in […]
The Best Show You Aren’t Watching: Our Flag Means Death
If you’ve jumped on the What We Do in the Shadows train (the excellent third season of which is currently airing on FX and Hulu), you’ve likely heard of Our Flag Means Death, since it includes appearances from members of the Kiwi brain trust that brought us Shadows. And if you haven’t yet watched Shadows, […]
An Alternative to the Studio System?: Indie Animation Forges Ahead
Indie animation is on fire as of late. This is clear from the hundreds of thousands of dollars given to Final Space creator Olan Rogers for his animated project, Godspeed, which will document the “entire process of developing, writing, boarding, animating, and even pitching” an animated series. Sara Eissa, the creator of Astur’s Rebellion, an […]
The 10 Most Successful Neighbours Actors
After 37 years the Australian soap opera Neighbours is coming to end. The soap was popular in Australia and the UK, we Brits needed two showing a day. It was a show that created memorable characters like the Kennedys, Toadie, Paul Robinson, Harold Bishop, and many more. It is sad for fans to see the soap coming […]
Better Call Saul Mid-Season Wrap-Up
Warning: This article contains spoilers for all Better Call Saul episodes up through season six, episode seven. Do not read if you haven’t watched until that point. It also references plot points from Breaking Bad. Before the season six premiere, a friend and I put together a list of prop bets as to what might […]
The Best Show You Aren’t Watching: Ghosts
It was quite the year for freshmen network comedies in that two – Abbott Elementary and Ghosts – managed to get Millennials to do something we haven’t done regularly in years: Watch network TV. Okay, if you’re like me, you’ve watched the first seasons of these two excellent shows (bonus points if you started Abbott Elementary […]
Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #31: Is Netflix Doomed?
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the recent troubles Netflix has experienced and ask what the future holds for the streaming giant.
Returning TV Show Round-Up: What’s Back This Month
If you’ve noticed an influx of returning favorite television shows onto your streaming platforms in the last few weeks – with more set to be released in early May – you aren’t alone. Thanks to pandemic delays and various other scheduling quirks – including the upcoming cut-off for Emmy Award consideration – we’re experiencing a […]