Category: Television Reviews
REVIEW: Amphibia – Season 3, Episode 10, “Escape to Amphibia”
*SPOILERS* In “Escape to Amphibia,” Mr. X is granted additional assets to hunt down the Plantars. Meanwhile, Dr. Jan and Terri work to open a portal to Amphibia to send the Plantars home. Terri provides a list of supplies to stabilize the portal, sending the Boonchuys and the Planta...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 8, Episode 7 “Lockdown”
Maybe The Flash needed a week to get the suck out of its system (give or take the odd Chester scene) because “Lockdown” is a quick return to form. It’s a focused, thematically connected, character-driven episode that manages to be both fun and legitimately funny. And Danielle Panabaker finally...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 8, Episode 6 “Impulsive Excessive Disorder”
The Flash has been off the air for four months, and to remind us of what we’ve been missing, the series gave us an episode focusing on Barry’s corny kids. Not that a Nora/Bart episode like “Impulsive Excessive Disorder” would have been good at any point in the run, but as the mid-season(ish)...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois Season 2, Episode 7 “Anti-Hero”
You wouldn’t guess from the title, but “Anti-Hero” is about family, specifically how devastating truths can be kept secret even in the tightest-knit ones. At the same time, those we trust the least may be the ones who come through for us when no one else can. All the plotlines move forward thi...
Read MoreREVIEW: Star Trek: Picard – Season 2, Episode 1 “The Star Gazer”
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Mar 3, 2022 | 0
Picard Season 2 Episode 1, “The Star Gazer,” released earlier today on Paramount+, and it is as poorly written and divisive as has become the norm for all current Kurtzman Trek. The few characters who have realized personalities are insufferable and egotistical, despite being the supposed “veh...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois – Season 2, Episode 6 “Tried and True”
Superman & Lois has been dealing with trust this season, and “Tried and True” explores that theme through all the main characters who’ve been on one side or the other of betrayal lately. This is a relatively quiet and character-driven episode, but a tightly written one, with every plotline...
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