Watchmen Pilot Recap: “Trust in the Law”
Considering the glut of superhero stories we’re experiencing in movies and TV, right now is either a great time to revive Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ legendary Watchmen comic, or perhaps the worst....
View ArticleDeadwood: The Movie Review – A Very Belated Series Finale
Of all the TV shows unceremoniously canceled too soon, HBO’s beloved Western series Deadwood was one of the most painful losses. After talking about it for thirteen years, creator David Milch has...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Series Finale Recap: “Will You Break the Wheel with Me?”
Game of Thrones is over, and I’m sure no one’s happy about it. Those fans who still like the show are sad that it’s over, and the series finale was never likely to change the minds of those who’ve...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Game of Thrones Spinoffs
Game of Thrones may be ending this weekend, but the story in Westeros is certainly not done. HBO already has a prequel series in development, though the details of it are still under wraps. What...
View ArticleGame of Thrones 8.05 Recap: “Let It Be Fear”
The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones feels in many ways like the climax of the entire series. After watching it, the biggest question I had is what the show’s seemingly countless disgruntled fans...
View ArticleGame of Thrones 8.04 Recap: “You’re Not the Only One Who’s Clever”
If it’s true that episode 5 of Game of Thrones this season will be even bigger than the Battle of Winterfell, the show needed something of a breather in between. This week’s entry may not be as...
View ArticleGame of Thrones 8.03 Recap: “Here We Are, at the End of the World”
And off we go. You wanted more action and violence and death on Game of Thrones this season? Wish granted. The war with the dead begins. Running nearly an hour and a half, The Long Night is a battle...
View ArticleGentleman Jack Pilot Recap: “So Much Drama, Always, with Anne”
Give HBO credit for figuring out a way to counter-program against itself. This week, the network premiered the period piece drama Gentleman Jack, hoping to retain the type of viewers who might not be...
View ArticleGame of Thrones 8.02 Recap: “Men Do Stupid Things for Women”
It’s calm-before-the-storm time on Game of Thrones this week. The war that’s been building for eight seasons is imminent, and that makes right now most characters’ last chance to get their personal...
View ArticleGame of Thrones 8.01 Recap: “What Does a Dragon Eat, Anyway?”
I cannot recall any television series in my lifetime that has entered its final season with as much hype and as much punishing pressure to satisfy millions of fans as HBO’s Game of Thrones. That’s a...
View ArticleLeaving Neverland Review: Broken Idol
Rumors and allegations about child molestation have tarnished the image of Michael Jackson for so long that the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland probably shouldn’t be shocking or even controversial at...
View ArticleTrue Detective 3.01 & 3.02 Recap: “We Almost Had a Clean Night”
More than three years since HBO’s True Detective aired its kind-of disastrous second season, creator Nic Pizzolatto has finally regrouped and retooled the show for a third run of episodes. Will fans...
View Article‘Westworld’ 2.10 Recap: “That Which Is Real Is Irreplaceable”
I often feel that ‘Westworld’ is too clever for its own good. That’s never been truer than in the Season 2 finale, which exerts so much effort trying to stay three steps ahead of the audience that I’m...
View Article‘Westworld’ 2.09 Recap: “There Is No Place for You in the New World”
For its penultimate episode of the season, ‘Westworld’ makes a curious choice not to dole out the expected abundance of shocking plot twists and reversals (though it has a couple), but to deliver a...
View Article‘Westworld’ 2.08 Recap: “This Is the Wrong World”
‘Westworld’ take another extended detour into unfamiliar territory this week. Fortunately, the results this time are a lot more interesting than the samurai episode. Episode ‘Kiksuya’ opens with the...
View Article‘Westworld’ 2.07 Recap: “You’re Free to Choose Your Own Path”
‘Westworld’ delivers another big, very busy episode this week. It has so much going on that I could barely keep up taking notes. It also has one really terrible scene that shouldn’t have gotten past...
View Article‘Westworld’ 2.06 Recap: “We’re Not at Full Apocalypse Yet”
Barring an unexpected payoff later in the season, last week’s diversion into Shogun World seems more and more to have been a fruitless waste of time. ‘Westworld’ (mostly) extracts us from that...
View Article‘Westworld’ 2.05 Recap: “You Know the Old Saying About Knives and Gunfights”
The ads for this week’s episode of ‘Westworld’ looked epic and the network marketing promoted it as a mind-blower. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a pretty big disappointment. We last saw Maeve and...
View Article‘Westworld’ 2.04 Recap: “If You Aim to Cheat the Devil, You Owe Him an Offering”
When I noticed that my recording of ‘Westworld’ ran for over 75 minutes this week, I knew it would be a big episode. Sure enough, it’s jam-packed with enough incident and revelations to fill three or...
View Article‘Westworld’ 2.03 Recap: “A New Twist in the Narrative”
‘Westworld’ continues to broaden its horizons this season. We caught a glimpse of the real world outside the park last week. Now we actually get to pay a visit to a second Delos theme park. This week’s...
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