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‘Castlevania: Nocturne’ Season 2 Review – A Solid, Surprisingly Emotional Follow-Up
We’re at a point now where anything that debuts on Netflix with Castlevania in the title is a guaranteed good time, which if you’d told...
‘XO Kitty’ Season 2 Review – A Lighthearted Teen Drama Keeping Us Hooked!
If you’ve seen Season 1, I’m sure you know the base story of Jenny Hans’ Netflix Series, XO Kitty. If you haven’t, however, here’s a...
Ari Shaffir Finds the Positives in Netflix Special ‘America’s Sweetheart’
From a stage festooned with live plants for no real reason that I can discern, Ari Shaffir delivers his second Netflix special (fifth overall), America’s...
‘When the Stars Gossip’ Episode 4 Recap – Things Are Starting to Lose Their Way
A question that occurred to me midway through When the Stars Gossip Episode 4 – what, exactly are we supposed to be latching onto here? It’s a worthwhile question.
‘When the Stars Gossip’ Episode 3 Recap – Introducing A Welcome Bit Of Danger
When the Stars Gossip has been, thus far, a very strange and silly show, with a far-out premise about fertilizing eggs in space and a lot of low-stakes slapstick to pad out the episode runtime.
The Ending of ‘Ad Vitam’ Hardly Seems Worth the Effort Of Getting There
Ad Vitam isn’t a very good movie, and its ending helps to illuminate precisely why that is. After a stellar start and then an incredibly...
‘Ad Vitam’ Review – How To Make A Simple Movie As Convoluted As Possible
Ad Vitam plays out like someone challenged director Rodolphe Lauga to make a very simple film as needlessly, off-puttingly convoluted as possible. It starts out...
‘Subteran’ Ending Explained – An Uncertain Finale Avoids The Easiest Outcome
Subteran avoids the easy, happy ending, which holistically is one of the bolder things about it. Netflix’s first Romanian original series is mostly content to...
‘Subteran’ Review – The First Romanian Netflix Original Is Workmanlike Entertainment, and That’s Okay
Subteran is, to my knowledge, the first Romanian Netflix original series, and you know what? It’s a pretty good debut effort. It’s not perfect, obviously;...
‘American Primeval’ Recap – A Complete Breakdown Of Everything That Happened (and Why)
Netflix’s brutal Western American Primeval spins a complex web around the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a real event that occurred in the Utah Territory in 1857....
‘American Primeval’ Ending Explained – Breaking Down the Finale’s Tragedies and Atrocities
Pretty much everyone dies in American Primeval, which is to be expected. Nobody thought a happy ending was coming to any of these characters, even...
‘American Primeval’ Review – Netflix’s Western Is Awful, Which Is Entirely The Point
American Primeval is awful, but largely in a way that’s terrifically entertaining. It’s about a lot of horrible people doing a great many heinous things,...
‘Hound’s Hill’ Ending Explained – A Thorough Finale Is Worth the Wait
It takes a fair amount of time and a lot of concentration to get to the climax of Hound’s Hill, so most viewers will enter...
‘Hound’s Hill’ Review – Netflix’s Dark Small-Town Mystery Is Worth Persevering With
Hound’s Hill is the kind of bleak small-town mystery that dumps you in the middle of a world and lets you acclimate on your own...
‘The Breakthrough’ Ending Explained – A Long-Awaited Arrest Finally Brings Closure
The Breakthrough has an ending that’s a little like releasing a long-held intake of breath. It isn’t the usual kind of crime drama tension, I’ll...
‘The Breakthrough’ Review – Netflix’s Patient Crime Drama Lingers Over Process
It wouldn’t be right to call Netflix’s The Breakthrough a thriller, since it doesn’t contain any thrills. Then again, it isn’t supposed to. Lisa Siwe’s...
‘Gabriel Iglesias: Legend of Fluffy’ Review – A Feature-Length List Of Excuses For Not Being Funny
Filmed at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, Gabriel Iglesias: Legend of Fluffy opens with a bit of self-aggrandizing artifice that...
‘When the Stars Gossip’ Remains Very Weird In Episode 2
Stick with me here as this is a slightly weird thing to say on just Episode 2, but When the Stars Gossip is almost like the anti-K-Drama.