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“‘The Twilight Zone’ Season 2 Is Well-Crafted Gloom Burdened By An Overabundance Of Ideas “
In which I Peele back the layers on the Twilight Zone”s modern day revival, now in its second season. Continue reading
“‘The Politician’ Season 2 Is A Soulless Satire Focused More On Sex Than Ideology”
It’s time I admit that I’m probably always the wrong person to review anything Ryan Murphy writes or directs. Continue reading
“‘I May Destroy You’: A Superb Twist On Millennial Slackerdom”
Tip for creators: I’m an easy lay for a really great, grabby title. Continue reading
“‘Central Park’: ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Creator Crafts A Funny, Smart Musical Series With A Talented Cast”
Ditch the burgers, gain a park plus tons of musical alums. Seems like a fair trade. Continue reading
“‘Snowpiercer’ TV Adaptation Confuses Its Class Warfare Ideas With A Murder Mystery”
In today’s edition of “TV shows aren’t movies and movies aren’t TV shows”: TNT’s ‘Snowpiercer.’ Continue reading
“‘Hollywood’: All The Glitz & Glam Can’t Conceal Flimsy Storytelling”
Oh, Ryan Murphy, you historical revisionist rascal, you. Continue reading
“‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Returns In Delightfully Funny Season 2”
Back on FX and staking its claim as pretty much the best horror show you’ll find on television. Continue reading
“‘The Virtues’: Shane Meadows Mines His Past For This Intense, Tender Story Of Survival”
Back on the TV beat with what may well end up being one of my most enduring watches of the year, because nothing haunts the mind like child abuse. Continue reading
“The Magicians’ Fourth Season Continues To Shake Up The Rules Of Fantasy”
Oh, oh, oh, it’s magic(ians) content, you know! Never believe it’s not so (that characters on “The Magicians” have it rough)! Continue reading
“Terry Crews In Brooklyn Nine-Nine Is Modern Masculinity At Its Best”
Terry Crews isn’t the star of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” but he’s pretty much the show’s heart and soul. And its muscle. And its fretting grandma. Continue reading
“Hulu’s ‘Castle Rock’ Explores The Stephen King Multiverse, But It’s Light On The Horror”
Castle Rock is maybe the single best embodiment of the problems I have reviewing TV: After just a few episodes, I’m not sure where it’s going, and I’m not sure how to review something like that. Maybe that’s not the point when you’re reviewing TV. Maybe just learn to review the TV you have. Regardless, Castle … Continue reading
“In Her Netflix Show, Michelle Wolf Gives Us A ‘Break’ From All This News”
I’m interested in seeing how The Break with Michelle Wolf picks up in quality, but really, I’m interested in learning how many people actually tune in to watch it. It’s a good show; maybe I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, but the first two episodes (FYI: It’s a weekly joint, rather than a … Continue reading
“New Season Of ‘Jessica Jones’ Wants Us To Know That Superheroes Have Feelings Too”
Remember back in 2015, when I reviewed every single dang episode of the first season of Jessica Jones? A couple years later, here I am up at The ARTery, compromising by reviewing just the first five episodes of the series’ new season, which is available for streaming on Netflix now. Bad news: It’s not as good as the … Continue reading
“Power And Privilege Continue To Anchor Donald Glover’s One-Of-A-Kind ‘Atlanta'”
Atlanta is back on FX. I probably don’t need to say anything more than that. I shouldn’t, really. But hey, it’s back, and it’s still great, and it’s still painfully relevant, and I know that it’s probably weird for a white guy to talk about how rarely we talk about mental health in relation to black … Continue reading
Altered Carbon Review
It’s been a week since my last blog post, and I bet you’re all jonesing for another update. Good news! I have one. Bad news! I sort of wiggled my way out of dealing with a contentious subject in my review of Altered Carbon. Good news! I’m thinking up a long form piece about the subject … Continue reading
The Alienist Review
As with Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem, my fondness for TNT’s The Alienist is derived in part because I’m just into this kind of story: Gothic or Gothic-adjacent procedurals, where the protagonist(s) stare head-on into a darkness they’re ill-equipped to fathom due to the constraints of their era they live in. Not that anyone living in 2018 … Continue reading
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story Review
It’s typical that Ryan Murphy things tend to rub me the wrong way, which is why of late I’ve made a point of avoiding Ryan Murphy things. The last Ryan Murphy thing I watched was Feud. I loathed Feud. So I ignored every other Ryan Murphy thing released last year, being American Horror Story‘s eightieth season, which continued my … Continue reading
Black Mirror Season 4 Review
Just in the nick of time: Here’s my review of Black Mirror‘s fourth season. In a word, it’s superb. In more words, well, hey now – you’re not getting my thoughts out of me that easily. In the real world, don’t have the kind of technology that lets you do that. If we lived in the Black Mirror-verse, maybe … Continue reading
TV Review: The Girlfriend Experience
If you’re not already watching Starz’ The Girlfriend Experience, might I suggest you start now; now in its second season, the show has completely changed face by moving on from its season one arc, involving the great Riley Keough, to a dual-narrative that respectively involve Anna Friel and Louisa Krause, and Carmen Ejogo. It’s still a … Continue reading
