Tag: miniseries
REVIEW: Erased (2016)
Based on a manga of the same name by Kei Sanbe, Erased is an anime miniseries from 2016. The series only ran 13 episodes but covers a lot of ground, following a character who experiences “revivals,” or the rare opportunity to change the past. Erased finds protagonist Satoru Fujinuma at 2...
Read MoreDexter Teaser Comes in From the Cold
Showtime sees sheets of plastic in our future, as the premium network has released a teaser for the Dexter revival. Based on the novels by Jeff Lindsay, Dexter centered on Michael C. Hall’s Dexter Morgan, a Miami PD blood spatter expert who moonlighted as a serial killer who made other killers his...
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 MoreSecret Invasion Casts British People
The Skrulls are beginning to take shape, as Marvel’s Secret Invasion has added some new cast members. The first to be reported was Kingsley Ben-Adir via Deadline; Ben-Adir, known for portraying Malcolm X in One Night in Miami, is supposedly playing one of the main villains, which must make him a S...
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 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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