About halfway through “Spoils of War,” I found myself thinking, “Man, I’m really loving this episode. This is might be my favorite episode this season.” Great character moments, an wondrous Stark reunion, and that awesome sparring match between Brienne and Arya would have made this a great Game of Thrones episode. And then that last […]
After toying fans with the April Fool’s “prank” episode, Rick and Morty is back properly for its third season and picks up where “The Rickshank Rickdemption” left off. Rick, Morty, and Summer go on another adventure, this time to a post-apocalyptic Mad Max-like the world, so that Rick gather a powerful green rock known as Isotope 322. However, […]
“The Queen’s Justice” was an episode where things happened. Granted, they were things we could see coming from miles away, but that didn’t dampen my joy at seeing Bran back home, or hearing Olenna Tyrell give one last mic drop speech, or watching Cersei match wits with Tycho from the Iron Bank. The episode certainly […]
“Stormborn” was a solid, if not great, Game of Thrones episode, that went a long way to speeding plots along while still taking some strange and seemingly gratuitous divergences. The bulk of the episode was spent moving chess pieces around the board to force Jon and Dany to ally themselves together, which, with only five […]
It’s no secret that I was disappointed with elements of Game of Thrones last season. Several stories stuck around past their sell-by dates (namely, Ramsay Bolton’s Reign of Terror and Arya’s Assassin Training), and I think we can all agree that the series had begun actively putting roadblocks in place to prevent Day from making her inevitable […]
As a critic, I try my best to be fair minded. Putting together 22 episodes a season, each of which is nearly an hour long once you take commercials into account, is a momentous undertaking. Given that the showrunners for The Flash have produced what amounts to six Titanics, it’s unreasonable to expect the season […]
Steven Moffat has a bad track record with Doctor Who season finales and while “The Doctor Falls” bucks that trend to some extent, it’s still a bit of a mixed bag. Missy’s slow and somewhat ambiguous journey towards redemption has been the closest this season comes to having an arc. Is she capable of being […]
Based on a manga series by Project-118, the anime series A Lull in the Sea is the teen drama that just happens to be set in a fantasy world and the first 13 episodes have been released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK by MVM Entertainment. A Lull in the Sea focuses on four students from a […]
“World Enough and Time,” Part 1 of Doctor Who‘s season 10 finale, is the perfect example of how a show’s marketing can severely undermine its storytelling. The Doctor decides to test Missy, letting her take Bill and Nardole on an adventure. The alternative TARDIS trio arrives on a gigantic colony space ship trying to escape […]
“The Eaters of Light” is an OK Doctor Who standalone episode that pads out the tenth season in the lead-up to the finale. Bill is convinced that she knows more about the lost Roman Ninth Legion than The Doctor, so the TARDIS trio travel back in time to Scotland to figure out who’s right. There, […]
