Season 2 of The Flash concluded with Barry Allen in a literal race against time to prevent Eobard Thawne (aka the Reverse Flash) from murdering Barry’s mother, Nora. Season 3 of The Flash picks up from where the last season left off, as Barry finds himself in what Thawne terms a “Flashpoint” timeline. For DC […]
Transparent‘s third season was a wonderful, moving, and complex delve into the world of the Pfefferman clan. But, while the series remains one of the best on television, it’s third season wasn’t quite as strong as its past two, particularly when compared to the absolutely spectacular second season of the series. While Transparent‘s second season […]
HBO’s newest prestige drama, Westworld, has a lot going for it: a spectacularly talented cast, a great team of producers behind it (including Jonathan Nolan and J.J. Abrams), and some of the most beautiful cinematography on television. But there is one major hurdle the show is going to have to overcome if it hopes to […]
On this week’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the team was haunted by more than just their past. Ghosts were popping up everywhere in the second episode of this season, titled “Meet the New Boss.” The creepy ghost from last episode continued to haunt even more victims this episode. She started off by scaring the crap out […]
After its summer hiatus, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is back with a bang a ready to set up another action-packed season. This first episode of season four, appropriately titled “The Ghost,” gave audiences a first look at Ghost Rider and a few other potential threats for the upcoming season. Season three of Marvel’s Agents of […]
Amazon might still be the little brother in the streaming content battle with Netflix, but the streaming service has been on fire of late when it comes to obtaining smart and well-written British comedies. As with the wonderful British import Catastrophe, Fleabag offers up six complex and layered episodes that, in addition to being very […]
One of the concerns I expressed about Vice Principals when the series began is whether audiences would care enough about Neal Gamby to follow him on his misanthropic misadventures. In the last few episodes in particular, the showrunners have smoothed out the character’s rough edges—he may be crude, dictatorial and socially awkward, but behind all […]
Sometimes the expectations from anime is that it can tell stories involving grand sci-fi and involving cyberpunk technology, giant robots and mecha suits. We now finally get a chance to review a plot like this with the second season of Patlabor Mobile Police, also known as Patlabor: The New Files – a show that was […]
With each successive episode, Vice Principals worms its way further and further into your heart, like a disreputable uncle who charms the last twenty out of your wallet so he can buy more booze. Sure, you know he’ll end up getting into another embarrassing barroom fight, but because you empathize with the guy it somehow […]
Bullies aren’t born, they’re raised. More often than not, these individuals were once bullied themselves and, in response, repeat the cycle of abuse by bullying others. We see this theme play out in at-times painful detail in this week’s Vice Principals, which not-so-coincidently is entitled “Circles.” The surface-level reading of that episode title is that […]
