Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #22: Friends

The English Review

I wanted to like The English, the new western series from British writer/director Hugo Blick, which premieres on Prime Video on November 11. After all, I enjoy the show’s two stars – Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer – and I’m always down for a western. But, after watching the six episodes of the show provided […]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Hegemony Review

Now that is how you do a cliffhanger finale! Not since “Best of Both Worlds” have we gotten a finale that truly has real, complex stakes and characters we love in real danger. But, then again, what would you expect from the finest Star Trek series in decades? Once again, Strange New Worlds takes what […]

The Horror of Delores Roach Review

Attend the tale of Delores Roach. In an unabashed riff on the class story of Sweeney Todd (unabashed in the sense that the series has a character compare the story to that of the Stephen Sondheim musical late in the first season), The Horror of Delores Roach isn’t all that original. However, in its leading […]