Game of Thrones, S07E01: “Dragonstone”
Watching the Pieces on the Board Get Slowly Pushed Closer Together is Interesting, If Underwhelming
“The Rickshank Redemption”
Rick and Morty, S03E01:
“The Rickshank Redemption”
After 18 Months Away, Rick and Morty Returned in April to Remind us How to Laugh Through the Struggle
The Leftovers – Season 3
One of the Most Mystifying Shows Ever Made Ends the Way it Lived, Revealing Nothing While Saying Everything What happens when we die? This is a rhetorical exercise, obviously, so please don’t send me any pamphlets, but, as far as unanswerable questions go, there aren’t really any higher than that of death. Even if …
The Americans – Season 5
In its Penultimate Season, TV’s Revered Spy Drama Leans Heavy on the Latter, Plays Hard to Get With the Former The Americans can’t end well. That’s basically the only thing I can guarantee about what’s coming in the show’s sixth and final season that’s set to air next year, but beyond that it’s anyone’s …
Archer: Dreamland – Season 8
The Long-Running Animated Spy Comedy Takes a Swing at Condensed Storytelling, With Mixed Results Stagnation, in television, is always the final stage before death. This is especially true of sitcoms, and a good reason why few manage to maintain a consistent quality after three or four seasons. Once you’ve explored all the avenues available …
Master of None – Season 2
The Second Season of Aziz Ansari’s Early-Middle Age Lovechild is As Warm and Humanistic As Ever One or two word signifiers don’t work for TV anymore. Usually. Yeah, Game of Thrones is a “medieval fantasy”, Fargo is a “crime saga” and The Young Pope is a “mindfuck”, but those are still fairly shallow descriptions of much deeper shows. And …
Get Out
Jordan Peele’s Foray Into Horror Leans on the Humour Sparingly While Indulging in its Social Commentary Get Out is not a subtle film. Every conversation throughout the movie is not so much underpinned by racial tension as it is openly inviting discomfort at how clumsily people (and, most specifically, white Americans) try to talk …
The Walking Dead, S07E16
Apparently This is “The First Day of the Rest of Your Life”. I Am Utterly, Incontinently Terrified by That Notion I can’t do a typical write-up for this episode, recounting the plot and remarking on its significance, trying to parse out some thematic relevance in proceedings or discussing how the characters move from A …