Tag: TV
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The best of ’23
In which 2023 is signed off upon, punishments are meted out, and secrets are at long last revealed
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The best television of 2022
Congratulations to us! We have once again survived a year of “content,” and yet another etch on the sliding scale between what used to be short- and long-form filmed storytelling, and whatever this medium is en route to becoming. And hey, bonus round: we did at least a sixth of it without twitter. And how…
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Well, it ain’t Andor
It happened quickly. Sitting in the dark pushing my way through the muddy middle plotting of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, or more recently this week, absorbing the tonal mishmash of the first two episodes of Disney+’s new Willow extension. “Well, it ain’t Andor,” my brain shrugged, and my expectations — and interest — accordingly dropped.…
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Bloody satisfaction
I am the one. I am the hypothetical, and hypothetically nonexistent, person you are all alluding to in your reviews of Stranger Things season 4. You: who would want a two and a half hour season finale of a TV show about kids solving spooky mysteries? Me: me.
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Destroy All Monsters: As THE WALKING DEAD Reminds Us, The Apocalypse Is Going To Be Disappointing Too
“The fantasy of the end of the world only succeeds as a fantasy (or even as a horror story, if that’s what The Walking Dead is) if it offers an outcome more elevated than the one we have right now. Right now, though, The Walking Dead might be set in the zombie apocalypse but it’s…