Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Review. Going Boldly Exactly Where It Was Supposed to Go. - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Review Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, the show's sophomore outing, was anything but timid, even if they continue to employ the laziness of time travel to create character moments. But that… Continue Reading
Star Trek Picard Season 3: The Right Way to Send Off TNG, Finally! - Star Trek Picard Season 3 Review I watch Star Trek TOS anytime it is one, and usually, the same goes for TNG. DS9, Voyager and Enterprise usually don’t garner the same loyalty, but I have watched each episode dozens of… Continue Reading
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Thankfully Goes Where Star Trek Has Gone Before - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review After several attempts to reinvent Star Trek for a new generation of viewers, the Paramount team finally decided to accept people loved the original Star Trek for a reason, and that reason does not… Continue Reading
Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s Modern Star Trek Problem - When the Starship Enterprise launched on its maiden voyage on September 8, 1966, it launched without precedent, without canon, and without expectations (except perhaps from Gene Roddenberry and the network executives). Star Trek fulfilled its mission to boldly go where… Continue Reading
Review: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 2 - Miriam "Midge" Maisel is on the scene and making her mark. Throughout The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, season 2, we watch Midge master her comedy skills and explore a new love life all the while maintaining her perfectly polished persona. Midge's… Continue Reading
Review: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 1 - Midge Maisel is working very hard to put everything in her life in the right place, then her husband goes and blows it all up! The housewife trope may be tired, but Midge is just getting started. The series is… Continue Reading
And Just Like That… Premiere Review - In the pilot episode, he analyzed her noting one simple truth about Carrie Bradshaw, "You have never been in love." At the moment Carrie felt this statement like a blow to her system. Despite her constant talk about love and… Continue Reading
Review: Loki Fabulously Jumpstarts the Marvel Multiverse - Review: Loki Every Marvel fan should watch Loki. The show sits at the crossroads between Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) phases. I’m sure there will be some necessary replay to ensure that when a film requires Loki plot points non-Disney+ subscribers… Continue Reading
Review: Hacks - Irreverent, relevant, and very funny. Hacks on HBO Max is a bright comedy about an up-and-coming young comedy writer, Ava, being forcibly paired with an old-school Las Vegas standup comedian, Debbie Vance. Their antics and dramatics level up from caddy… Continue Reading
Wynonna Earp: Leaving Purgatory - Wynona Earp drives off into the midday sun on a motorcycle with Doc. But not without Peacemaker making one more kill, Doc Holliday’s beloved car, Charlene. And thus one of the campiest shows in television history follows its broken curse… Continue Reading
Review: Friends: The Reunion - Many consider Friends as one of the greatest sitcoms ever made, deservingly so. The cast became instantaneously famous with the show's success. Now, HBO Max is paying tribute to the 10-year run with a reunion decades in the making. Friends:… Continue Reading
Review: Bridgerton, Season 1 - Dearest Reader, I write to you today with news that Bridgerton on Netflix is the most viewed television original series on the streaming site. Though, with this endeavor, one might believe it to be a "steaming" site. Leave it to… Continue Reading
Lost in Space Review: A Reboot That Only Borrows Names From Its Campy Original - Lost in Space has ended. Again. The Netflix reboot of Lost in Space was a three-season juggernaut of good science fiction. The only thing it has in common with its campy original are the names of characters, spaceships, and robots… Continue Reading
The Expanse, Season 5: A Very Human Solar System Asserts Itself - The Expanse is back on Amazon Prime with a vengeance. This season isn’t as much about the little blue meanie of a molecule, but about the people who have been more pawns in previous seasons, even with Holden’s near messianic… Continue Reading
Review: Netflix’s Away Needs A Commission to Examine The Program’s Flaws - Away was a disaster waiting to happen. Not because of the production or the talent, but because of the writer and producer Andrew Hinderaker. He wrote on the wall, and in the back of his mind: pile on as many… Continue Reading