Category: Television Reviews
REVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 2, Episode 13, “Pabu”
***SPOILERS*** “Pabu” finds Phee and the Batch dealing with some shady customers. After learning about their split from Cid, Phee takes the Batch to Pabu, her home planet. Omega immediately hits it off with mayor Shep Hazard’s daughter Lyana, and Phee suggests they stay and raise O...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 9, Episode 6, “The Good, The Bad, and The Lucky”
What do you do when it’s the final season of your serialized superhero sci-fi show, you’ve got half the episodes you normally do, and you have to make every week count? You have a standalone episode without the main character that puts the most boring sidekicks in the lead roles, of course! “T...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Mandalorian – Season 3, Episode 3, “The Convert”
***SPOILERS*** “The Convert” picks up where “The Mines of Mandalore” left off, with Din waking up while Bo-Katan contemplates what she’s seen. On the way back to Kalevala, they’re attacked by Imperial Remnants, and Bo’s castle is bombed into oblivion. Meanwh...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois – Season 3, Episode 1 “Closer”
Superman & Lois begins its third – and probably final – season with “Closer,” a dull, wheel-spinning episode that feels like a waste of time more than the first step in a larger story. It goes through the usual season premiere motions, establishing where the characters are after last yea...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Last of Us – Season 1, Episode 9, “Look for the Light”
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Mar 14, 2023 | 0
HBO’s The Last of Us has thankfully come to its conclusion with episode 9, “Look for the Light.” After enough bloat to bore Hemingway, The Last of Us barrels to the end, forgetting that it has not invested enough of its overstuffed screen time in developing the relationship between Joel and El...
Read MoreREVIEW: Carnival Row – Season 2, Episodes 7 and 8, “Kindred” and “Facta Non Verba”
***SPOILERS*** In “Kindred,” the New Dawn is attacked by the Pact. Meanwhile, Dombey breaks up an anti-fae protest and beseeches Philo to trust him. Once released in the Row, Philo gets into a brawl with three fae guys. Darius comes to his rescue before he’s killed, but he is beate...
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