Review: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3
What does it take to become a star? More importantly, how many times do you need to fail before you make it? Further, what if it never happens? Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) sets out in the third season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to try her hand at being a road comic while opening […]
Review: The Expanse Season 4 Goes Down the Gravity Well in a Good Way
The Expanse Season 4 Goes Down the Gravity Well in a Good Way If you loved The Expanse on SyFy you will love it even more, because it appears that Amazon loves it. The show that was always on the edge of its own oblivion runs unleashed now on Amazon Prime. Season 4 launched December […]
Review: Van Helsing Season 4 – with SDCC interviews and Pictures
Review: Van Helsing Season 4 Van Helsing Season 4: The only thing less about Van Helsing season 4 is the audio blurring of F-bombs. Other than that the raucously unholy, bloody and wildly entertaining Van Helsing continues on its trek toward the rise of the Dark One. With a new showrunner in Jonathan Walker, questions […]
Review: The Mandalorian
Review: The Mandalorian The Mandalorian…Since the acquisition of the Star Wars Universe by Disney, the studio’s storytellers latched on to a fact that genre competitor Star Trek is just beginning to grasp: universes are full of characters with stories that have nothing to do with the stories or characters who first populated the universe. So […]
Carnival Row Review: Amazon Serves Up an Injection of Fantasy for the Fall
Carnival Row Review: A non-traditional fantasy built around common fantasy elements. Strong on social commentary with enough solid performances, world-building, intrigue and horror elements to keep viewers who need a new fantasy injection satisfied. A Carnival Row review: On March 29, 1516, the Jews of the Venetian Republic were segregated into what has become known […]
Review: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 6
Review: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 6 Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 6 is in the books. The team over at Marvel Studios News Sean Gerber felt it reflected a rushed, unprepared leap into the abyss after the unexpected season 6 pickup. Queenie and Jahnya at Random Tea Podcasts, felt, well, just well, meh nonsense. […]
Review: Veronica Mars Season 4
If you were to write down the life story of Veronica Mars it would read like a Greek tragedy. Best friend killed, mother gone, and a hometown that has a great divide between the haves and the have-nots. The series, Veronica Mars, left the air back in 2007, returned with a partially fan-funded film in […]
Review: In The Boys Amazon Unleashes Social Commentary Aimed Not At Supes, But At Us
Review: The Boys Marvel delivers heroes. They may be broken and scarred. They may be damaged and ambivalent. They may even be deft killing machines. But for the most part, Marvel heroes wear their hearts on their sleeves, and that always seems to be the right place. The Boys, the new Amazon series based on […]
Review: Game of Thrones Season 8
Review: Game of Thrones Season 8— Endgame Game of Thrones season 8. If you can’t say something nice. You know how the adage goes. So I waited to review the final season of Game of Thrones (GoT). To simply state disappointment does GoT a disservice. Everyone already knows the issues of a rushed narrative, the lack of […]
Review: The Loudest Voice
If you needed more evidence that politics have become entertainment look no further than Showtime’s new limited series, The Loudest Voice. A scheme in 1995 to capture the conservative consumer manifested into the entity known as Fox News. Today, Fox News is truly the loudest voice in conservative politics and the source of anger for […]