Man, I had forgotten how good Better Call Saul can be. “Mabel” was an excellent season premiere – easing us back into the world of Jimmy McGill and Mike Ehrmantraut, teasing the potential conflicts and professional pitfalls to come, but still keeping things shrouded in just enough mystery to make for a taut and suspenseful […]
Following the slightly underwhelming second episode of The Last Kingdom‘s second season, the third episode was a big improvement – even if it suffered from pacing issues. Uthred (Alexander Dreymon) and his war companion Aidan (Anthony Cozens) have been sold into slavery and the new king of Cumberland and Northumbria, Guthred (Thure Lindhardt), suffers the ramifications. For not killing Uthred, […]
After a few weeks away, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returned with its first (and probably not last) episode in the Framework. The hour asked the question, “What If. . .”. We got to see a world where everything was a little bit upside down and backward. First, I have to start off by saying I […]
The Walking Dead has the capacity to be a very good television series. Heck, we saw that in the back half of this season when the show managed to string together two solid episodes in a row. But “The First Day of the Rest of Your Life” was not a good episode. It was not […]
It has been a long wait for Rick and Morty fans – 18 months since the season finale of season two – but the show has come back with a hell of a bang with its April Fools’ Day ‘prank’ episode “The Rickshank Rickdemption.” “The Rickshank Rickdemption” picks up where “The Wedding Squanchers” ended: Rick C-137 has […]
After so many good Marvel Netflix shows, I was, like many fans, eagerly awaiting Marvel’s Iron Fist. I recall there was a delay in the series, and that many were uncertain how the character would translate to the small screen. Even still, after the premiere of yet another successful Marvel series – Marvel’s Luke Cage […]
Arrow delivered another great hour of television with “Disbanded,” an episode that continued the tension of Oliver’s secret from last week and gave us some big movement with the Prometheus storyline. More importantly, the show finally has stakes again, and the situations and dilemmas our heroes find themselves in are impactful and provide for good […]
Well, season one of Legion went out with more of a whimper than a bang. Considering how many bells and whistles the season had (and how incredible several of the show’s amazing and twisted sequences were), I’m willing to allow a less-than-stellar season finale a pass. But I can’t help but feel a bit disappointed […]
One of my core complaints this season of The Flash has been its lack of interesting villains. The series is currently hyping Savitar as a Big Bad, but it’s been increasingly hard to see him as a credible threat given his goofy, CGI-generated look and lack of clear objective beyond “kill Iris because reasons.” It’s […]
The second episode of the second season of The Last Kingdom is a downgrade from the previous episode and most of the previous season, relying too much on thin characterization and repeated plot points to allow its story to continue. After freeing Guthred (Thure Lindhardt) from the Danes and helping him to become king of Cumberland, Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon) has […]
