Well, I guess Missandei and Grey Worm won’t be getting that beach front property after all (too soon?). There’s a general problem that arises as a series that is as plot heavy as Game of Thrones approaches its end game: characters and story arcs become rigidly stuck along a particular path to get to the […]
That was, dare I say, pretty disappointing? For all the hype, for all the talk of the longest sustained battle on screen, for all the warning of painful character deaths, we got that? An hour and a half of quick, confusing cuts (that made it incredibly hard to understand just what was happening- and who […]
Well, that was quite a bit of fan service (even after last week’s fan service-filled premiere) to get us to the start of The Battle of Winterfell. And, honestly, I really didn’t mind. During my seven season rewatch leading up to season eight, my major takeaway was how wonderful the quiet moments of the show […]
Until the launch of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu was easily the least important of the big three streaming services. Now, having conquered the world of drama, Hulu is making a serious play for streaming comedy supremacy this spring. Already garnering rave reviews with Shrill and Pen15, the streaming service’s latest foray into perspective-based comedy is […]
A lot of exposition was taken care of in “Winterfell,” the premiere of the eighth and final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. We discovered where our remaining characters are (largely either Winterfell or King’s Landing, although I’ll be sure to take stock of those in other locales later on in the review), we saw […]
“There’s no murder if there’s no crying, mom,” a witty character who has created an unethical dilemma opines near the end of the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone. It is a too-rare example of what The Twilight Zone has always done—whether it was the original show or this latest (3rd remake or 4th series)—when […]
One day you’re in, and the next day you’re out. Yes, it’s back with the same catchphrase, yet it feels almost sacrilegious that they’d keep that saying without keeping Heidi Klum as the speaker. A decade after leaving Bravo–and now without Tim Gunn or Heidi Klum–Project Runway is back on Bravo as a kinder, gentler […]
Another week, another lame trip to The Edge of Extinction. I’ve given up on hoping there would be something somewhat dangerous there. But Reem? And now Keith? It’s really unappealing watching these two stumble around the island. It makes you wish for a falling boulder (Lord of the Flies) or at least a threatening smoke […]
Aidy Bryant is a star. That was my top take away after watching the six episode first season of her new Hulu series, Shrill. Bryant is a star, and, to top if off, Shrill turned out to be a really solid dramedy (although, at no point in the season, was Bryant’s character ever actually shrill […]
When one tribe is dancing even before tribal council, you have a pretty good feeling who is going to win, and that was definitely the case on Survivor this week. Frustratingly, we get very little about “The Edge of Extinction,” but nevertheless, that’s where the show started, with last week’s outcast Reem wandering around, half […]
