Category: Reviews
The New and Somehow Familiar Resident Alien
The SyFy network’s original material doesn’t even qualify as hit or miss. It’s almost always a miss. The new show Resident Alien is trying to break that mold. Like Battlestar […]
The Black American History of Bridgerton’s Will Mondrich
The popular Netflix drama, Bridgerton, takes place in and around London in 1813. The show focuses on British nobles looking for marriages during the 1813 marriage “season.” Notably, the show […]
Friends Around a Fire – Outer Wilds Review
Before I sat down to write this, I built a fire in our cabin, sat down, and watched it grow. There is a truth in watching a well-built fire burn. […]
Brandon Sanderson Is The Best Writer Alive
The Stormlight Archive #4 debuted on November 17, 2020. It is book four of five in Brandon Sanderson’s epic fantasy series. By this point, he’s solidified his position, in my […]
Cobra Kai Helped Me Understand American Politics
Cobra Kai shouldn’t be good. Netflix’s Karate Kid show, which just released its third season, picks up with our favorite karate characters 35 years later. If you can’t remember, there […]
Fatman is a Wild Ride
Fatman fits the year 2020 perfectly. The past few years have produced some Christmas films with potential to become classics. Klaus (2019) and The Grinch (2018) are wonderful animated Christmas […]
The Undoing Felt Undone
The Undoing is a natural follow-up to David E. Kelley’s other hit HBO suspense series, Big Little Lies. Like the former, The Undoing boasts an impressive cast including a repeat […]
The 5 Best Thanksgiving Movies
I’ve put together a list of the five best Thanksgiving movies, it wasn’t easy. Few holidays serve as cinematic inspiration. Christmas and Halloween certainly represent the vast majority of calendar […]
Baby Yoda Sucks and Makes The Mandalorian Worse
Baby Yoda sucks. It is nothing more than a new Star Wars icon which further drags the science fiction franchise deeper into capitalism’s grasp. This is nothing new for the […]
Star Trek’s Bold Return to Relevance
Trek fans are hard to please. They tend to have standards that are near impossible to predict. There are as many Trek fans willing to cast a J.J. Abrams trilogy […]