Tag: tv
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 […]
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 […]
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 Monsters Are Due on Pennsylvania Avenue
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going to be the next President and VP of the United States. The election is over, but not to a frighteningly large portion of […]
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 […]
The 5 Most Valuable Lessons From Ted Lasso
AppleTV+ has a gem of a show in Ted Lasso, and as I have written about before, that comes as quite the surprise, but what makes coach Lasso so great […]
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 […]
Review: Ted Lasso
Anyone who remembers ABC’s The Cavemen knows that it’s generally a bad idea to make a show based on a series of advertisements. To be fair, 2007 was a different […]
Five Things I Wish Got the Snyder Cut Treatment
Photo by Esteban Lopez on Unsplash Twitter was set ablaze on May 20, 2020 by the announcement that there was in fact going to be a version of the Justice League that was […]