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‘Marvel’s What If…?’ Season 3 Reaches A High Point In Episode 6
Full disclosure: Episode 6 of Marvel’s What If…? Season 3, which teams Shang-Chi up with Kate Bishop in a Wild West setting, is my favorite...
‘Marvel’s What If…?’ Season 3 Gets Very Bleak In Riri Williams-Focused Episode 5
Right after Marvel’s What If…? Season 3 reached its lightest, silliest note, Episode 5, “What If… The Emergence Destroyed the Earth?”, flips things on their...
‘Marvel’s What If…?’ Season 3, Episode 4 Is A Lovely (If Demented) Christmas Gift
Episode 4, “What If… Howard the Duck Got Hitched?”, plays out like a dare to come up with the weirdest MCU premise possible and then contort it into even stranger shapes as it goes.
‘Marvel’s What If…?’ Season 3, Episode 3 Feels Like A ‘Thunderbolts’ Trailer
If I have a persistent criticism of What If…? it’s that it rarely feels “what if” enough. The limitless possibilities of a speculative anthology should make this kind of thing really easy.
‘Marvel’s What If…?’ Revisits Hollywood’s Golden Age In Season 3, Episode 2
Episode 2 of What If…? Season 3, “What If… Agatha Went to Hollywood?”, reinvigorates that godforsaken movie and some of its concepts by pairing Agatha Harkness – very much Marvel’s flavor of the month after Agatha All Along – with Kumail Nanjiani’s Kingo.
‘Dune: Prophecy’ Delivers An Action-Packed Season 1 Finale That’s Far From An Ending
Everything that happens in Episode 6, “The High-Handed Enemy”, is in service to the kind of big-picture multi-season storytelling that HBO was doubtlessly looking for in a Duniverse project.
‘Marvel’s What If…?’ Season 3 Gets Off To A Cracking Start In Episode 1
What if… the MCU had a baby with Godzilla and the Power Rangers? I have no idea how that would work genetically speaking, but the offspring would probably look a lot like the Season 3 premiere of Marvel’s What If…?
‘Creature Commandos’ Gets Back On Track In Very Good Episode 4
Now this is more like it. I was worried about Creature Commandos, I must admit, especially after it got so bogged down in simplistic political...
‘Skeleton Crew’ Runs Into A Little Filler in Episode 4, But The Characters Remain Compelling
Episode 4 seems a little early for a show like Skeleton Crew to be resorting to filler, but “Can’t Say I Remember No At Attin” does feel a bit like that.
‘Dune: Prophecy’ Finally Gets Going In Episode 5, But It Might Be Too Little Too Late
It’s fair to say that Dune: Prophecy hasn’t exactly resonated with viewers the way HBO probably wanted.
‘1992’ Review – Netflix Thriller Relies On Imagery But Forgets To Be Interesting
The best part of 1992 is undoubtedly the villain, which coincidentally is the part it focuses on the least. But it counts for something. There...
‘Creature Commandos’ Episode 3 Gets Bogged Down In Obvious Messaging and Silliness
I still like Creature Commandos, and I still think it has a lot of potential, but Episode 3 made me wonder if the concept was...
‘Skeleton Crew’ Continues To Be A Fascinating ‘Star Wars’ Adventure In Episode 3
I have no idea where or how Skeleton Crew fits into the wider Star Wars mythos, and I think that’s probably a good thing. I...
‘Secret Level’ Recap – Our Take On Every Episode Of Amazon’s Anthology
Amazon’s anthological series Secret Level is pretty unprecedented as far as such things go – a collection of animated video-game-inspired short films released in two...
‘Dune: Prophecy’ Gets A Bit Too Dense For Its Own Good In Episode 4
Dune: Prophecy is a lot better when Desmond Hart is around, isn’t it? I suggested that in my recap of the previous episode, which brushed...
‘Creature Commandos’ Makes The Necessary Introductions In Its Two-Part Premiere
Welcome, says the two-part premiere of Creature Commandos, to the new DC Universe. Well, new-ish, I suppose. Episodes 1 and 2 of Max’s adult animated...
The Ending Of ‘Black Doves’ Season 1 Is Surprisingly Hopeful
Ending an espionage thriller conclusively is almost impossible, so you have to respect the effort Black Doves goes to in order to tie Season 1...
‘Black Doves’ Is A Fun Holiday Treat With Surprising Depth
Black Doves, Netflix’s British action-thriller series from Giri/Haji’s Joe Barton, is technically a Christmas show. The holiday has nothing to do with the plot, which...
The Premiere Of ‘Skeleton Crew’ Is ‘Star Wars’ In Its Purest Form
The debut of any Star Wars project is fraught with peril these days since The Discourse™ is inevitable and certain to be embarrassing. I can’t...
‘Dune: Prophecy’ Finally Shows Some Weakness In Episode 3
It had to happen eventually, and it finally does here in Episode 3 – Dune: Prophecy shows some weakness in its storytelling. The midpoint is...