There’s something truly special about Transparent– it just keeps getting better. While the series had a strong freshman outing in 2014 (and was rewarded handsomely for it, most recently with a number of Emmys this past September), its second season (which I have seen in its entirety) manages to actually improve on the strengths of […]
This week’s episode of Da Vinci’s Demons relies on exposition to explain what has happened to Lorenzo (Elliot Cowan) this season. Florence’s otherwise intellectual and compassionate leader has turned into a violent, mentally disturbed, and aggressive tyrant. In a well-done scene, back in the Medici home, Lorenzo is taking off the Turkish armor that he […]
I feel like this particular review has been a long time coming this season, but it is finally here. I don’t think there is enough, from a plot perspective, to continue writing these weekly reviews. Many of the things I loved about season one of The Returned just aren’t present here in season two. For […]
Well, that was an all-around disappointment, was it not? To be fair, I wasn’t expecting all that much, in light of the uninspiring first half of the two-parter on Tuesday (check out my Flash counterpart Alexander Wong’s excellent take on “Legends of Today” here), but that had to be one of the worst Arrow episode’s […]
Due to The Flash’s preoccupation with setting up Legends of Tomorrow, I expected a lot more from the first half of The Flash/Arrow crossover event. After all, “The Fury of Firestorm” introduced viewers to Martin Stein’s new partner while still being a solid episode. And the show was clearly biding its time in the last […]
This week’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. proved that getting closure isn’t always as simple as it sounds, and served as the perfect lead into the mid-season finale. The episode started calm enough with Rosalind and Coulson finally having a romantic dinner, but their moment of happiness literally lasted a few minutes. One second they are […]
You know that theory that has been going around Hollywood for the last few decades: female superhero stories can’t succeed? That those stories just can’t work creatively, and certainly can’t work from a financial perspective (a question we can’t answer through a streaming platform like Netflix). Well, the people behind that clearly have never met […]
It’s difficult to heap praise on The Walking Dead‘s mid-season finale because, frankly, not all that much happened. Sure, there were some strong moments which I will single out later on, but from start to finish, nothing was really accomplished and the Alexandrians are pretty much in the same place they were when the episode […]
A major theme of this season came into crystal clear focus in this episode of Da Vinci’s Demons: people are capable of both great good and great evil. The Monster of Italy is a living embodiment of this theme. It’s revealed this episode that Riario is the serial killer called the Monster of Italy. The […]
The Returned continued its streak of slowly providing answers to the show’s largest questions with “Mme. Costa.” We now know how Victor gets his foreknowledge of dire events (just not why he seems to be able to predict horrible ends to those in the town) and we have definitive proof that Pierre is pretty much […]
