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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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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Broken Pieces”
“The future is left for us to write. And we have powerful tools!” “Nepenthe” was my favourite episode of season one of Star Trek: Picard and remains the odds-on favourite to keep the crown for the whole series; but, when I first watched it, “Broken Pieces” did a capable job of maintaining the level, and…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Remembrance”
“I don’t want the game to end.” The first episode of Star Trek: Picard is a huge episode of television. Premieres were never this show’s problem. Each season begins formidably, with intent writ large across entertaining hours, which see us reconnecting with old friends who find themselves in new surroundings. That’s an elaborate way of…
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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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