After I spent last week talking about how Legion often values style over substance (and the style is often so spectacular that the lack of major plot and character developments don’t really matter all that much), “Chapter 12” comes around and completely flips the script in terms of creating key character moments and driving the plot […]
My main complaint about season one of Westworld (which was also the main complaint of seemingly every other TV critic) was that the series was far more concerned with creating and springing its puzzle box traps than with crafting a complex and interesting story populated by complex and interesting characters. By the end of season […]
Legion may have earned the reputation as the most visually compelling series currently on TV, but it hasn’t yet managed to snag accolades for coherent narratives and strong, character-driven storylines (which is completely fine, so long as it continues to churn out the psychedelic images and strange musical numbers). That isn’t to say the series […]
When we last left our heroine June (the handmaid formerly known as Offred), she was taken by what appeared to be the Eyes (the Gilead secret police) and placed in the back of a van, headed off to an uncertain fate. For those fearing the new season of The Handmaid’s Tale would take its time to […]
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most popular and enduring characters in the world of gaming and anyone who grew up with a Sega console in the ’90s would have played at least one of his classic 2D games. But in recent years the Blue Blur has been the sick man (or hedgehog) of […]
Spring once marked the end of the television season. Now, however, it marks the beginning of the prestige TV season, with networks pulling out all the stops to get their best and brightest shows to the masses just in time for the all important Emmy push to begin. Over the next month, I’ll be highlighting […]
With all the avant garde visual crazy that inhabits the world of Legion, it can be easy to forget that this is a Marvel-Fox superhero show. After all, the series tends to rely more on mental stimulation than physical (at least when characters aren’t performing complex choreographed sequences to a carefully chosen song). But “Chapter 10” […]
