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We knew going into this season that part of Deborah’s journey in her foray into hosting a late-night show was going to be learning a bit from Ava about how to manage a staff without flying off the handle and firing them at the drop of a hat. After all, we know Deborah has the […]
One of the very many things that I love about Hacks is how Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, and Jen Statsky (and the rest of their writers) seemingly write themselves into a corner in every season finale only to find a new way to get Ava and Deborah back on track the following season. Because, […]
On paper, Hacks seems like a deceptively simple comedy. Pair an older, well-known and battle-tested actor (that would be the great Jean Smart) with a young, relatively unknown actor (that would Hannah Einbinder, who, much like her character, has only grown in strength as the series has played out) and base the show’s comedy on […]
Babylon is the fourth film from the young, celebrated filmmaker Damien Chazelle. His tale about early 20th century Hollywood is his most blazon and divisive film so far. Babylon follows five figures as they experience their ups and downs in Hollywood. There is Manuel “Manny” Torres (Diego Calva), a Mexican émigré who wants to work in the […]
It’s hard to think of an actor who has notched more quality TV work over the last decade than Jean Smart. From her work as a crime syndicate’s matriarch on season two of Fargo (the best season of the series), her work as the therapist to a band of mutants in season one of Legion […]
My favorite type of ending is one that refuses to tie everything up in a little bow. It’s Buffy looking out over the crater of Sunnydale, offering a small smile, while refusing to answer any of the myriad of questions being thrown her way. It’s not knowing just what fate will befall Paige Jennings as […]
I have to admit, so much happened in “An Almost Religious Awe” that I don’t really know where to jump into this review. I suppose the best jumping-off point would be with the continuing deepening of what we know about our protagonist, Angela Abar – especially since she seems to be the link to the […]
The past is something we tend to cling to like a security blanket. When we discuss something awful, we hold it up as a clear mark, a blemish, a black spot on the soul of humanity – something that we won’t do ever again. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it […]
This week’s rather straightforward episode of Watchmen (if any episode of Watchmen can ever truly be classified as “straightforward”) opened with a mixed homage to another superhero of the DC universe: Superman. The Clark family, childless Oklahoma farmers, are given a child right before something crashes down from the sky and lands in their cornfield. […]
So remember how I said in my review of the premiere episode of Watchmen that I wasn’t going to delve too much into the past iterations of the source material? It only took three episodes for me to have to break that promise. After an episode as steeped in the history of masked heroes like […]