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This week’s Skeleton Crew didn’t skimp on the CGI set pieces (that escape of the ship from the jaws of the techno crab metal crushing thing was pretty cool to see), but it excelled in an area that the series has been lacking in past installments: focusing on the interpersonal character beats at the heart […]
At this stage of the game, I think it’s safe to say we’re going to be getting more of the “ten hour movie” episode treatment (or in the case of Skeleton Crew, the eight hour movie treatment) rather than the “this is a television series, so episodes are actually self-contained stories being told in service […]
One of the things I really don’t like about the bulk of the recent Star Wars television shows is their penchant for ending an episode at what feels like a commercial break and not the natural stopping point for an episode of television. My guess is that this habit – of which Skeleton Crew was […]
This week’s installment of Skeleton Crew kept up the theme of expositional dumping, letting us know just what At Attin was – but crucially not what it currently is – and shedding a little light on just who Jude Law’s character is – since he’s absolutely not a Jedi, even if he does appear to […]
Two episodes in and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is a heck of a lot of fun – for what it is. And what it is happens to be a series that owes a heck of a lot to several late 1980s/early 1990s films about kids working together to go on an adventure. Think Goonies, Stand […]