Tag: Tom Hiddleston
Marvel’s Miniseries Mistakes and How to Fix Them
The TV miniseries is perhaps the most unsung of the motion picture formats. A sort of middle ground between the short-form movie and the much longer traditional television show – even ones that only last a single season – the miniseries is a potent tool for visual storytelling despite its margin...
Read MoreREVIEW: What If…? Season 1, Episode 7 “What If… Thor Were an Only Child?”
“What If… Thor Were an Only Child?” makes it clear that this animated Marvel series still has some kinks to work out – some very big, very annoying kinks. The worst impulses of the show take center stage this week, where instead of using a diverging timeline to explore the characters, they j...
Read MoreREVIEW: What If…? – Season 1, Episode 3 “What If… the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?”
“What If… the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?” is the best episode of the kids-with-a-toy-box series yet, and more enjoyable and reverential to the classic characters than at least the last two MCU TV shows in their entirety. Getting past the race and gender-swapping that the canonical MCU is...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 6 “For All Time. Always.”
Perhaps better than anything I’ve ever seen, “For All Time. Always.” epitomizes the phrase, “What the hell did I just watch?” All of the problems with Loki reach their apex in this finale, an oppressively boring “climax” that bungles its humor – the placement of which is, as ever, mi...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 5 “Journey Into Mystery”
“Journey Into Mystery” adds insult to last week’s injury, further derailing this once-promising show and acting as a poorly-fitting puzzle piece that’s been jammed in where it doesn’t belong by people who want to end the game and go to bed. Like the similarly truncated The Falcon and the W...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 4 “The Nexus Event”
“The Nexus Event” is one of the most glaring examples of manufactured storytelling I can recall. Plot and character developments are so forced as to be misnomers, with each new point inserted at the whim of the “creatives” because they want the show to be something they know it can’t offic...
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