Category: Television Reviews
REVIEW: 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: 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 ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Agatha All Along – Season 1, Episode 6, “Familiar By Thy Side”
“Familiar By Thy Side” is exactly what the title implies: the episode that reveals all about Teen, the drip of a familiar who’s been following the coven along the Witches’ Road because he thinks Agatha is just the coolest. The answer is one of the two or three that have been widely speculate...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Penguin – Episode 4, “Cent’Anni”
The Penguin’s trend appears to be one-upping itself every week, but I don’t know if it will be able to pull that trick again; although it’s following the excellent “Bliss,” “Cent’Anni” is even better than its immediate predecessor and the best episode of this series yet. This week fo...
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