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The journey to get to a second season of Squid Game was, well, pretty emblematic of the series itself. First, there was the creator’s (Hwang Dong-hyuk) personal need to create the second season – despite wanting to initially tell a complete story in season one – because, despite the series becoming the most popular show […]
Last year I published a list of my top ten Western animated series. I am doing the same this year. Some are holdovers from last year, like Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, My Adventures with Superman, and Hailey’s On It!. Others are new additions, such as God’s School, Static Shock, Hazbin Hotel, Avatar: The Last […]
Usually when I sit down to write up my annual Top Ten List, I have a host of shows that I struggle to whittle down. This time around, however, while I had a decent sized list of shows to choose from, the culling process felt significantly easier than in years past because there just weren’t […]
I feel like I should admit up front that I’m a big fan of Michael Schur’s TV oeuvre. Parks and Recreation and The Good Place are two of my absolute favorite TV shows of all time. Brooklyn 99 and the underappreciated Rutherford Falls? I like those, too. So, I’m precisely the audience Netflix was hoping […]
While I might spend a lot of time writing about (and watching) TV, my true passion lies in watching theatre (which I don’t review because I don’t want to turn something I love so deeply into a job – although I’m happy to offer recommendations should anyone want some). So, when I was in London […]
Streaming was seen to be a game changer for the entertainment industry. It was meant to usher in a new era where most content would be available online and make cinemas and physical media obsolete. This bright future has not come to pass and now we are starting to see signs of the streaming crunch. […]
The one positive thing about coming a bit late to a series – in this case, a week after it was released – is that you get to watch how the discourse surrounding the series starts to shape up. First, there’s usually the breathless questions around your social circle: “Have you watched it? What did […]
The saga of Kora and her band of warriors continues in the second part of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon series. Kora (Sofia Boutella) arrives back on Veldt with a group of diverse warriors, including a former general, Titus (Djimon Hounsou), Tarak (Staz Nair), an exiled nobleman, and Nemesis (Doona Bae), a cyborg swordsmith. Kora and the warriors […]
There’s something about Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley” that makes it catnip to writers and directors looking for an engaging story with almost fantastical acts of murder, intrigue, and emotional manipulation to adapt to the screen. In fact, two versions have made it to film – Plein soleil in 1960 and the […]
If you’re a huge fan of “The Three-Body Problem” and looking for an extremely faithful adaptation of Cixin Liu’s novel, I highly recommend you check out the Chinese-made miniseries currently available on Peacock. If you’re like me and couldn’t make it through the first book of Liu’s trilogy – or if you’ve never read the […]