Two of the storylines within “Secondo” worked well, presenting complex and layered counterpoints to one another. The third storyline within the episode just didn’t fit. At all. But, even with this disparity between the episode’s arcs, it was still a compelling hour of Hannibal. First, let’s touch on the element of the episode that just […]
On paper, the Wachowski siblings’s idea for Sense8 sounds really cool. Eight people, located all around the world, connected through some mysterious force. This allows them to work together to defeat anything that comes their way. Oh, and just for fun, there is a shadowy organization that is seeking to catch these individuals and destroy […]
Like many, I spent this weekend binging on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black. And, for the first time in three seasons, I’m really conflicted over how to respond to what I saw. I’m disappointed in the bulk of the storylines, the strange lack of in-depth character moments for the majority of the show’s most […]
Revenge is a complicated thing, as we saw in “Mother’s Mercy,” the season five finale of Game of Thrones. It can result in the death of particularly horrific individuals, but it can also mean the death of those who don’t quite deserve it. It can strike down those willing to rape and murder, and it can […]
After last week’s gorgeous and terrifying episode, that saw the noose around Bedelia’s neck begin to tighten, this week’s episode provided the first taste of the what the first half of the season will have in store for us: Will and Hannibal clashing in one final cat and mouse game. The title of “Primavera” is […]
How does a show follow the greatest episode of its five year run? If that show is Game of Thrones, it burns a young girl alive at the stake. Because, lest you forget, on Game of Thrones, it always ends in tears. There was no real way the series could possibly hope to carry over […]
“Antipasto” was a particularly interesting episode within the Hannibal cannon. Most notably, we didn’t receive any real resolution in terms of last season’s cliffhanger of an ending (although I can’t imagine for a second there are any fans who believe Will, Jack, and Alana didn’t make it out alive- particularly in light of the post-episode […]
I never thought I would type these words, but Lifetime has a really good new series. I know, I know, you are probably rolling your eyes, but hear me out. UnREAL, a very dark comedy from Marti Noxon (a writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mad Men) and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro (who wrote the […]
Out now on DVD and Blu-ray is the six episode arc of the anime series Monogatari, Koimonogatari, following on from the events of Otorimonogatari. Koimonogatari picks up a few months after the events of Otorimonogatari. The fourteen year-old girl Nadeko Sengoku has become a snake god and promised not to kill her unrequited love Araragi […]
Wow. Just wow. What an absolutely spectacular and magnificent final twenty minutes. Even several hours after the fact, I am still feeling a sense of awe at what Game of Thrones accomplished with its entire Jon Snow storyline this week. Traditionally, Game of Thrones has used the late episodes of each season as a showcase […]
