Before I get into the review portion of this review, I wanted to get something out of the way. Fear the Walking Dead is a critic proof show. No matter what any critic thinks (myself included), the show will be successful (at least in this initial six episode run- as there are plenty of ways […]
Well, that was far and away the best episode of Hannibal‘s Red Dragon arc. Absolutely exceptional all around. From the excellent writing, brilliant performances from Richard Armitage, Gillian Anderson, Hugh Dancy, and Raul Esparza, to the decision to change things up just a bit from the source material, “The Number of the Beast Is 666…” […]
Rick and Morty has not even come close to a sophomore slump. Its second season has come out of the gate just as strong, if not stronger, than the end of the first season with brilliant writing, creative ideas, and a whole lot of shit talking. This Sunday’s fourth episode “Total Rickall” culminates the creativity […]
A sobering fact was revealed last week. The penultimate episode of season three of Rectify drew in 197,000 viewers and was the least watched scripted original show on cable. But, thanks to the magic of being on a small network like SundanceTV (and having raging critical support), Rectify will be coming back next summer for […]
As I touched on in last week’s review, there is an imbalance within Hannibal during this Red Dragon story. It’s an imbalance that was bound to appear, and one that Bryan Fuller and his team couldn’t prevent from occurring. Naturally, since we are already deeply invested in Will and Hannibal, their relationship, and their relationships […]
Ah, do we look on anything more fondly than our memories of summer camp? While no one likely ever really thought we needed a sequel to the 15-year-old Wet Hot American Summer — let alone an entire season of TV — it works so well that we struggle to figure out why it did not […]
When I stepped away from writing weekly True Detective reviews a month ago, I did so because I just couldn’t handle spending an hour each week recounting all the ways I was disappointed with this season of the show. I said that I didn’t expect things to improve to the point where I would regret […]
Hannibal is such an amazing series. While it may be best remembered (by the few of us who has taken this interesting journey over the past three years) for creating art out of the grotesque, the show is just as skilled at handling episodes that rely on building and tearing down character relationships, that use […]
As with Vincent Adultman, there are many stackable layers to a show like Netflix’s BoJack Horseman that might not be apparent to certain outside observers on first glance (or, if you tend to be more like Princess Carolyn, a second, third, or tenth glance). And that is okay. I know I didn’t catch everything season […]
Last summer, when AMC was airing season one of Halt and Catch Fire, the series was a bit of a joke. After all, this was a post-Breaking Bad AMC, with only one season of Mad Men left in the oven (ready for release in spring of 2015), and AMC was struggling to find its next […]
