Last week’s Hannibal introduced the Great Red Dragon/Tooth Fairy in a episode full of gorgeous imagery. It also brought Will back to the beginning, sending the character into the dangerous territory of empathizing with victims of the Tooth Fairy’s attacks. And, in a brilliant stroke of pacing, waited until the episode’s final moments to reunite […]
First and foremost, there are not enough people who watch – or even know about – Dan Harmon and Josh Roiland’s incredible and comedic take on science fiction. The particularly crude and sarcastic humor makes this series a favorite of the 18-40 year old demographic, however, because it’s a cartoon it does not get the […]
Last week I mentioned that I was a bit worried regarding whether Bryan Fuller would be able to successfully translate the “Red Dragon” story to screen, in light of only having six episodes to develop the Francis Dolarhyde character, as well as introduce several other new faces to the Hannibal canvass. But “The Great Red […]
The last two and half seasons have been spent chasing Hannibal Lecter around the world. And, with “Digestivo,” Will, Jack, and Alana finally got their man. There was an awful lot to like about the episode, from Will and Hannibal finally getting to the heart of their complex and dark relationship in Hannibal’s last few […]
There’s a good story present within this season’s True Detective. Whenever we get the chance to spend time with Colin Ferrell’s Ray and Rachel McAdams’s Ani, the show is a pretty good crime drama. Not great, but it’s something I wouldn’t mind watching. Unfortunately, Nic Pizzolatto and his staff have opted to mire the show […]
Watching Hannibal can be a complex, if wonderful, endeavor. Earlier this season, when Hannibal and Bedelia began their role play as Dr. and Mrs. Fell, I commented that such a deception (complete with a highly sought after academic posting on false credentials) would be all but impossible. All it would take was a little digging […]
The problem with True Detective this season is one that I don’t think the show can recover from in its final five episodes: I don’t care about the central mystery at all. To be fair, I don’t care about the four main characters all that much either. But I can generally push through a show […]
I think we can all agree that the ending of “Night Finds You” was pretty shocking, right? And man, if True Detective opts to off it’s most interesting character two episodes into the season, that would be pretty amazing. But I don’t doubt for one second that Ray will be back in the saddle at […]
After last week’s unsuccessful episode (well, as unsuccessful as an episode of Hannibal can really be, which is still several times more interesting and complex than most shows currently on the air), the series bounced back in a masterful way this week with the haunting and gorgeous “Aperitivo.” It is a fitting name for the […]
Season one of True Detective was a runaway hit thanks to the convergence of three elements: Nic Pizzolatto’s story (which, in the end, didn’t hold up nearly as well as one might have hoped and inspired a great deal of backlash, but for the first several installments were interesting and complex), Cary Joji Fukunaga’s incredible […]
