Category: Television Reviews
REVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 1, Episode 1, “Aftermath”
It’s Star Wars Day, which means it’s time for the latest Star Wars animated series to kick off. The Bad Batch was introduced in a 4-episode story arc in season 7 of The Clone Wars. Clone Force 99 consists of four mutated clones with special abilities along with Echo, who joined them in t...
Read MoreREVIEW: Invincible – Season 1 (2021)
Invincible is an animated series from Amazon Prime and executive producers Seth Rogen and Robert Kirkman (who also created The Walking Dead comics). The show is based on Kirkman’s comics of the same name and follows teenager Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) as he explores his new superpowers. Natura...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – Episode 6 “One World, One People”
“One World, One People” is, if nothing else, the blissful end to this tedious chore of a series. It’s as obnoxiously preachy as you’d expect after last week, but it’s worse because it revels in its effectively admitted ignorance. Parts of it are good, though, and those parts frustrate beca...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – Episode 5 “Truth”
The condescendingly titled “Truth” (which, since no big answers to anything are revealed, can only mean “We’re about to lay some truth on you”) is the episode where The Falcon and the Winter Soldier goes all-in on identity politics and makes Captain America all about race. People who want ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 7, Episode 7 “Growing Pains”
“Growing Pains” is more important than it feels. It doesn’t add much to the season’s arc, but it takes two of the main characters in the direction the show wants them to go. However, while one is generally handled well, the other is rushed and short-shrifted, feeling like an afterthought whe...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – Episode 4 “The Whole World is Watching”
With “The Whole World is Watching,” The Falcon and the Winter Soldier continues to continue. That’s all it feels like at this point; it’s going through its paces to get to the end. There are bland characters (some of whom used to be fun and cool), weak humor, dull conversations written by pe...
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