Category: Reviews
REVIEW: Agatha All Along – Season 1, Episode 9, “Maiden Mother Crone”
“Maiden Mother Crone,” the (hopefully) series finale of Agatha All Along, is an odd duck. It’s split into two distinct halves, and while the first one is easily the best the show has been, the second is little more than a coda, a half-assed wrap-up that makes you wonder what the point of the s...
Read MoreREVIEW: Agatha All Along – Season 1, Episode 8, “Follow Me My Friend/ To Glory at the End”
If you run out of Ambien, “Follow Me My Friend/To Glory at the End” can serve as a possibly superior substitute. The penultimate episode of Agatha All Along is one long snore, a seemingly interminable forty minutes or so that brings Agatha’s journey to an end… or does it? Probably not, beca...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Penguin – Episode 6, “Gold Summit”
The war for Gotham’s underworld heats up in “Gold Summit,” yet another fantastic episode of The Penguin that manages to add layers to some already well-drawn characters, humanizing the show’s array of monsters and graying conflicts that were beginning to look fairly straightforward. Sofia a...
Read MoreREVIEW: Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
In anticipation of reviewing Venom: The Last Dance, I finally watched the first two films in the series over the last couple of days. So, I’ll certainly say The Last Dance is the best of the three, but that’s partly because the first two are awful (especially Let There Be Carnage; talk about a ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Agatha All Along – Season 1, Episode 7, “Death’s Hand in Mine”
Agatha All Along is sputtering towards its finale (which is next week, doubled up with the penultimate episode), and “Death’s Hand in Mine” is another tedious, confusing episode that almost dares you to pay attention to it as it does everything it can to bore you. This is Patti LuPone’s sho...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Penguin – Episode 5, “Homecoming”
In a way, it’s unfortunate that “Homecoming” is following the outstanding “Cent’Anni,” as it was all but destined to suffer by comparison. But it’s another great episode of The Penguin, rocketing the story forward on multiple fronts, bringing all the major characters into the next leg ...
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