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
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“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