There was a lot to grumble (or, in some cases, shout in anger) about in season one of CBS All-Access’s Star Trek: Discovery. Looking back at the the ups and downs, it’s hard for me to recommend that someone shell out the money for the All-Access streaming service just to watch the series. While I’m […]
“The Message” is an episode about political maneuvers and it is one of the more interesting Vikings episodes this season, as the fight for Kattegat steps up a gear. After the cliffhanger at the end of “The Prisoner,” Bjorn Ironside (Alexander Ludwig) and his followers escape their Arab captors thanks to their fighting skills and a sandstorm – giving […]
Here’s a lesson for any aspiring television writers out there: Once you have spent thirteen episodes building a world and characters, you don’t need puzzle box plot devices, twists and turns in identity, or jumps between universes and through time. You can just let the characters live and breathe in a story that furthers the […]
They just couldn’t restrain themselves, now could they? After an episode that, on the whole, dealt with the stupid plot twist of last week in a satisfying manner, the writers had to throw a time travel wrench into the proceedings right when they didn’t need to. After all, having the Terran Georgiou on the Discovery […]
Ok. While the last two episodes have had enough good to justify me continuing to see if Star Trek: Discovery can find its way and move forward into the upper echelons of Trek lore, “Vaulting Ambition” was just not great, Bob. We’ve made it through a jump to a Mirror Universe. We’ve survived the really […]
I’m a bit late to the game on the first two episodes of the back half of Star Trek: Discovery‘s first season (“Despite Yourself” and “The Wolf Inside”), and I apologize. Unfortunately, some real world things came up and delayed my ability to watch the episodes. But, here we are, trapped alongside our heroes in […]
If you’re looking for a quick binge, might I recommend the excellent British series The End of the F***ing World? It’s a quick eight episodes, with no episode longer than 22 minutes (seriously, it absolutely flies by), with two spectacular leads and a compelling plot (that skews very, very dark). I went into the series […]
McMafia is the latest high-quality thriller from the BBC that features a lot of talent in front of and behind the camera. Alex Godman (James Norton) is the son of a wealthy exiled Russian family in London. Despite his family’s criminal past, Alex works as a legitimate banker. But his world comes crashing down when one of […]
It’s the end of the holiday season which means it must be time for another dark and twisted trip into the world of Charlie Booker’s Black Mirror. Offering up its second season for Netflix (and its fourth overall), Black Mirror was, once again, a bit of a mixed bag with this most recent outing. However, […]
After action light episode of “The Plan,” “The Prisoner” kicks up it again and does something unusual for Vikings: picking up from a cliff-hanger and ending on another cliff-hanger. The Saxons have found York abandoned by the Vikings and celebrate their victory. However, Ivar the Boneless (Alex Høgh) is always a man with a plan, and […]
