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It’s that time of year again. The temperature is dropping, the days are growing shorter, and 2023 is drawing to a close. Which can only mean one thing: It’s time for Pop Culture Maniacs’ annual TV Top Ten list! This year in television was a tumultuous one, as it was for all of Hollywood, with […]
Star Trek: Lower Decks is a mature animation which combines elements of the adventure, comedy, and sci-fi genres. Series creator Mike McMahan is known as a co-creator of Solar Opposites, a producer on Rick and Morty and as a consulting producer on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. This is the ninth series in the Star […]
PAW Patrol is one of the biggest franchises currently for younger children. The heroic pups have earned a second feature film and this time they gain superpowers. The citizens of Adventure City are excited to see a meteor shower, but the PAW Patrol is called into action when a meteor heads toward the city. Within the […]
There’s something almost soothing about watching an episode of Strange New Worlds. The episodic nature of the series is a lovely throwback to an earlier time of television writing – where the main antagonist of an episode is dispatched in a timely fashion, even if threads of an overall, serialized season arc continue tying episode […]
When I last wrote about Evil, it was back in its first season – when the series was a solid, if not remarkable, drama on CBS. I’ve spent the last few weeks binging the second and the first half of the show’s third season and I’m here to tell you that the series is in […]
It was quite the year for freshmen network comedies in that two – Abbott Elementary and Ghosts – managed to get Millennials to do something we haven’t done regularly in years: Watch network TV. Okay, if you’re like me, you’ve watched the first seasons of these two excellent shows (bonus points if you started Abbott Elementary […]
Early on in the series premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, there’s a name drop that is meant to peak the audience’s interest: Captain Pike (the excellent Anson Mount) has requested a Lieutenant Kirk to join the crew compliment. Any Trek fan worth their salt is aware that Pike was the captain of the […]
This was the first episode of this season of Picard that felt wholly of what fans are terming “Old Trek*” – you know, classic Next Generation or Voyager where the good guys manage to fight against seemingly insurmountable odds while battling inner demons to reach a key moral by the close of the episode. And, […]
This week’s episode of Picard felt, much like Jurati’s mind, fractured in its effectiveness. Some elements worked very well – Jurati Queen’s continued plot to assimilate Earth, Soong’s downward spiral, the revelation that Q is dying and doesn’t seem to know how to go gentle into the dark night – while other pieces felt half-baked […]
For the first time this season, an episode of Picard felt more like it was spinning its wheels than providing us with something new and worth watching. I certainly don’t begrudge a series the right to take a breath and take stock of just where all the pieces lay on the board as it dives […]