Category: Television Reviews
REVIEW: Ms. Marvel – Season 1, Episode 4 “Seeing Red”
“Seeing Red” should have been a lot better than it is. This was Ms. Marvel’s chance to shake up its story and character dynamics, to give a meandering and kind of dull series a boost of excitement. Well, they changed the scenery, but it’s the same mess as before – with an extra helping of ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois – Season 2, Episode 15 “Waiting for Superman”
“Waiting for Superman” is the perfect kind of finale, for a TV season or any other story. It marries big, apocalyptic spectacle with the personal stories that have run through the past fourteen episodes. And as a microcosm of the show, it demonstrates what Superman means to the world and the ind...
Read MoreREVIEW: Westworld – Season 4, Episode 1, “The Auguries”
Westworld is quite possibly the most frustrating show on TV right now. Obi-Wan Kenobi was an exercise in fruitless hope, but Westworld was easily my favorite season of TV in 2016. I thought season 2 was great, for the most part, and certainly much better than some people would have you believe....
Read MoreREVIEW: The Boys Season 3, Episode 6, “Herogasm”
**SPOILERS** “Herogasm” finds the Deep, Ashley and Homelander discovering that Soldierboy lives. Soldierboy agreed to help kill Homelander if the Boys find the rest of Payback. Kimiko is kidnapped. The Deep tells Homelander about Noir’s disappearance and where he thinks Soldierboy is headed. H...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 8, Episode 19 “Negative, Part 1”
With only two episodes to go – or one two-part episode, depending on how you view these things – The Flash finally kicks the season’s main story back into gear with “Negative, Part 1.” Revelations and shocking moments abound, but it’s also a narrative mess, spewing exposition so rapidly ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Orville: New Horizons – Episode 4 “Gently Falling Rain”
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Jun 23, 2022 | 0
The fourth installment of The Orville: New Horizons, “Gently Falling Rain,” was released onto Hulu last night. Following the slight dip in quality from last week’s “Mortality Paradox,” this week’s episode was a welcome return to form. “Gently Falling Rain” is a stellar episode of bot...
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