My one major takeaway upon finishing my screeners for Paradise was “Boy is Sterling K. Brown sensational at what he does.” And Brown is asked to do an awful lot in the series, leading a cast of heavy hitters through a thriller that is often uneven from a writing perspective and where we’re doled out […]
TV Reviews
Severance – Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig
Well, this week we got to see just what our main four’s Outies were up to in the time between their Innies’ jail breaks until they reunited back on the Severed Floor at Lumon. Or, rather, we got to see a lot of what Mark and Helena were up to, more of Dylan’s Outie’s life […]
Star Trek: Section 31 Review
If you don’t know who Emperor Philipa Georgiou is and you never watched a minute of the pre-32nd century episodes of Star Trek: Discovery, then I can pretty confidently say that Section 31 is not the film for you. While the film does offer a pretty quick rehash on Georgiou’s history (as well as some […]
Prime Target Review
There are a number of mental leaps one needs to make whilst watching Prime Target, the new thriller from AppleTV+, but the chief one is that a young maths graduate student at Cambridge would not only be able to deduce the proper theorem that could, ostensibly, be used as a key to unlock all digital […]
Severance – Hello Ms. Cobel Review
And just like that – okay, after a three year wait – Severance is back! Thank Kier. And what a delightful way to throw us back into the world of Lumon, Innies, Outies (of whom we saw next to nothing this week), and Macrodata Refinement. And, I would be remiss not to mention, some absolutely […]
Skeleton Crew – The Real Good Guys Review
Now that was the kind of episode I’ve been waiting for over this last uneven string of storytelling. Sure, it was the finale so the series was able to really pull out all the stops (and definitely blew its CGI budget), but this was a series (season?) finale that managed to pull together the remaining […]
Skeleton Crew – We’re Gonna Be in So Much Trouble Review
If I could have one wish in this new year, it would be that all television series start treating their episodes like actual episodes of a TV series and not just a single act break in a longer film. Because man was I annoyed at the close of this week’s episode – the penultimate episode […]
Severance Season Two Review
I won’t bury the lede for you: the long-awaited second season of Severance is great. I easily found myself swept back up into the world of Lumon, rewatching several of my screeners just to be sure that I caught everything I needed to catch to piece together the various arcs unspooling this time around (a […]
Lockerbie: A Search For Truth Review
Since his daughter, Flora (Rosanna Adams) was killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on 21st December 1988, Doctor Jim Swire (Colin Firth) has led a campaign to find out the truth of what happened and to see those responsible brought to justice. It’s a campaign that has taken many turns, as the […]
Skeleton Crew – Zero Friends Again Review
This week’s Skeleton Crew didn’t skimp on the CGI set pieces (that escape of the ship from the jaws of the techno crab metal crushing thing was pretty cool to see), but it excelled in an area that the series has been lacking in past installments: focusing on the interpersonal character beats at the heart […]