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A prequel is a thorny undertaking. First, you need to justify why anyone needs to learn the story of what happened before the seminal (or, really, just popular) story that succeeds this jump into the past. And once you’ve done that, the story you’re telling needs to be good enough to stand up to that […]
The Copenhagen Test is the type of series that frustrates me more than anything. It’s got a cast of rising stars – Simu Liu (Barbie, Shang-Chi), Melissa Barrera (Scream V and VI), and Sinclair Daniel (The Other Black Girl) – with a stellar supporting cast – Brian d’Arcy James (Spotlight), Kathleen Chalfant (The Affair), Saul […]
For the first time since I began creating annual top ten lists – over a decade ago, now – I actually had to struggle to find shows to select. It’s not that there wasn’t a lot of good TV this year – there was, as you’ll see from reading through my various reviews over the […]
Earlier this month, ND Stevenson had an announcement. He is a writer best known for helming She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which is an animated re-boot of the classic 1980s series She-Ra: Princess of Power, and for his webcomic (and later) graphic novel Nimona. He told interviewers from Comic Book Club that the animated adaptation of […]
There’s a (mostly) universal truth in the realm of TV criticism: If a new series is set for a certain release schedule and then, seemingly unprompted, the network changes it to a schedule where the entire series drops all at once (combined with a review embargo that drops within 24 hours of the show’s release), […]
Every time I begin watching a new series, I want it to be great. I want it to be so exceptional that I finish each episode and cannot wait to see just what is going to happen next. I went into watching the screeners for The Rainmaker, the new USA/Peacock series loosely based on John […]
Revival, the new Syfy supernatural horror series might feel a tad familiar. For one, it’s based on the comic series of the same name. But it also shares a bit of DNA with some past supernatural shows in its key foundational plot points. Even with all that, the series takes a bit of time to […]
Bridget Jones returns for a fourth film with Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. This time the romcom icon deals with motherhood and widowhood after the loss of her beloved Mr. Darcy. Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) has been a widow for four years after her husband (Colin Firth) died on a humanitarian mission in Sudan. She […]
Since his daughter, Flora (Rosanna Adams) was killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on 21st December 1988, Doctor Jim Swire (Colin Firth) has led a campaign to find out the truth of what happened and to see those responsible brought to justice. It’s a campaign that has taken many turns, as the […]
Laid, the new Peacock series that stars a great Stephanie Hsu (who I continue to believe should have won the Oscar over Jamie Lee Curtis for their film Everything Everywhere All At Once, but I digress), is a mixed bag. On the one hand, the series – which is adapted from an Australian series of […]