Category: TV Show Reviews

If there was a word to sum-up what this tertiary season of The Boys is about it would be “control”. Control that is paralleled between characters in leadership positions no matter which side. Control in a supposedly mutual relationship. Coping with or perhaps even terminating dynamics from who’s in control of you and learning how…

Damn, this documentary didn’t have to go so hard by deflating every ounce of optimism you ever had for an ideal humanity, but that’s probably why it’s so good. Part 1: Love and Power When it comes down to it, I think the hard lesson here in Love and Power is that as much as…

It seems that only people with some serious daddy / mommy issues can save the face of humanity. Real? In the end, every teen — the arguable beginning stage of substantial consciousness — or any age from there on forward has some form of a Neon Genesis Evangelion experience: that almost incomprehensible desire to piece…

Warning: Spoilers Ahead “Character & Relational Depth > Plot Depth” is my small sum-up of what differentiates The Sopranos from a lot of other TV shows I love. We are not here for revelation in these character’s journeys, but rather to be discomforted by their anchored, connected souls.  The opening scene to the sixth season…

Warning: Spoilers Ahead Occasionally, this season can seem like it’s just slowly cleaning up after the fourth season’s narrative foundations by delegating most of its time to binding together some scraps that were left unfinished, limiting focus for its own identity; a lot of the hateful dynamics between side characters from beforehand are also just…

“You got too much time to think about yourselves.” Jeez are these people truly falling apart now. Is it just that time of the year or is every character in this season deliberately depressed and absolutely fatigued of themselves and their lifestyle? Not to mention, the amount of bad-blood boiling between friends and family is…

To my memory, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a series so character dilated, let alone a mafia one. Almost every episode in this show is made to deliberately show a character facing a contradiction they practice and then barely act upon it in such a humanly realistic and relatable way despite most of them…

“I call Garth the Orson Welles of horror. And that’s not just because of his weight.”  There are literally fake actor names used for the fake characters who are being played by real actors in Richard Ayoade’s…umm… Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace: a cozy little retro TV show parody garnished by awkward, inflated dialogue and little background…

WARNING: This is a spoiler-free review but it will be discussing some of the show’s plot-points vaguely and some of the show’s key themes. Professional time-romancer Christopher Nolan must be trembling in his little boarding school suit.  I’m sure at some point in everybody’s life, we’ve both asked or been asked the eons-old question “if…

The following review is spoiler-free. Imagine a superhero origin story that exists in a sort of current MCU-like world where the guidelines of being a respected savior have become so set-and-stoned due to how expansive its population of superpowered beings is. Imagine a superhero origin story interested in a universe that’s heavily connected from planet…