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Following on from the work setting up the new characters in “The City of Magpies,” His Dark Materials goes full steam ahead with its storylines with “The Cave”. Lyra and Will decide to go to Oxford to find answers about Dust and get access to Will’s trust fund. Back in Lyra’s World the Magisterium have […]
When it was announced shortly after the end of season one of The Mandalorian that Ahsoka Tano would be appearing in season two, I wondered if I should watch The Clone Wars to be fully prepared for her appearance. And then 2020 happened, priorities changed, and I never got around to it. Which means that, […]
Hanna returned for a second season on Amazon Prime. The second season was able to expand beyond the confines of the being on the run story of the first season. After breaking into the UTRAX facility at the end of Season One only one UTRAX trainee choose to go on the run with Hanna. The […]
As I’m sure you are aware, The Crown is a series based on historical events. In the case of season four, the series covers events that occurred between roughly 1979 and 1990. While I will refrain from discussing specific elements of the season’s plot, there will be some elements that it’s impossible to refrain from […]
His Dark Materials has returned for a second season. “City of Magpies” was a much stronger start than the first episode of Season One. Lord Asriel has opened a portal to the City in the Sky. His actions have started a massive chain of events. The witches believe that this is the start of the […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the His Dark Materials franchise in the Pop Culture Maniacs podcast
In the interest of time, I will be reviewing Star Trek: Discovery on a biweekly schedule, covering two episodes at a time. If there’s a particularly momentous episode that calls for a single review, I will break the schedule to cover it, but covering two episodes at a time will allow me to link together […]
For all my harping about wanting to see a more complex and serialized story on The Mandalorian, I appreciated this week’s frenetic stand-alone episode. Sure, there are now two major dangling plots in the series (between Moff Gideon still hunting Mando and The Child via a network of bounty hunters – some of whom got […]
It’s rare to find a show that treats modern adolescents with as much care and grace as HBO’s We Are Who We Are. And it’s equally as rare to find a cast of young actors as talented and emotionally connected to their characters as we have in the series. From the minds of Paolo Giordano, […]
Well, that was quite the bait and switch with a classic Star Wars character – only to throw in a literal last second twist. But I’ll get to that later on in the review. Welcome back to our weekly reviews of The Mandalorian! While I didn’t love the first season, I have higher hopes for […]