Comedy
‘Enola Holmes 3’ Ending Explained – How A Bit of Pirate Plunder Sets Up A Sequel
For a brief moment, the ending of Enola Holmes 3 feels like the ending of the entire franchise, which, based on this most recent effort,...
‘Enola Holmes 3’ Review – This Formula Is Wearing A Little Thin
Enola Holmes is one of the strange streaming curios that sprang up during the pandemic and felt like a novel distraction more than the beginning...
‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – A Tale Of Two Lawyers
Lawyers are like buses, apparently -- you wait ages for one to turn up, and then two come along at once. This is the predicament that Paula finds herself in here in Episode 8 of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, which is just the latest in a long string of predicaments that include being arrested for a double-murder and locked up on Rikers Island.
Louis C.K.’s ‘Ridiculous’ is Hilarious (If You Aren’t Easily Offended)
I haven’t enjoyed a Netflix stand-up show in a while. The last two comedians I watched were Ali Wong and Wanda Sykes, so I was...
‘Little Brother’ Is A Pleasant Surprise, and John Cena Is the Perfect Star For It
Netflix’s Little Brother is an unashamedly silly movie, and given the R-rating, I must confess to having entered it expecting the John Cena equivalent of...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2 Ending Explained – A Major Aang Cliffhanger Sets Up Season 3
In the grand scheme of things, Season 2 only represents the midpoint of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It adapts Book Two: Earth of the animated...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2 Episode 6 Recap – They’re Children, After All
It’s easy to forget that Aang’s a kid, sometimes. Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of those hero’s journey fantasy stories that thrust youngsters into the deep...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – Spirit Quest, Part 2
While we’re technically still stuck in Ba Sing Se, which was already beginning to feel a bit limiting, Episode 5 of Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – If Walls Could Talk
Ba Sing Se is good and bad for Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2. Having all of the cast in the same place, in a location that...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – Ignorance Is Bliss
Since Avatar: The Last Airbender is adapting such a long-running anime, condensing so many arcs into single digestible episodes, it has a tendency to feel anthological in...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – A Welcome New Recruit
Some people don’t have a great deal of luck, and I’m starting to think that Prince Zuko is one of them. Sure, you can make...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – It’s Called Serpent’s Pass For A Reason
Since the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender is fairly complex and dense at the best of times, it’s probably only right that Season 2 starts with...
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2 Review – A More Assured Follow-Up
It’s impossible to talk about Avatar: The Last Airbender without also talking about One Piece. Both are live-action adaptations of extremely beloved and long-running anime series streaming on...
‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – The Disappearing Dead Body
I don’t kill people very often — not anymore, anyway — but I think I’d do a better job of it than Paula. Then again,...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1 Ending Explained – And A Happy(ish) New Year
After that penultimate episode, it was kind of obvious where Not Suitable for Work was going in a lot of respects. But in the grand scheme of...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – A Not-So-Merry Christmas
It could just be me, but is there something a little unsettling about a Christmas episode airing in the middle of summer? Maybe it’s particularly...
‘My Royal Nemesis’ Season 1 Ending Explained – Do Seo-ri and Se-gye Get Their Happily Ever After?
Okay, you can all relax. Despite some worry to the contrary, I was always confident that My Royal Nemesis would cap off Season 1 with...
Zoey Deutch Knocks It Out of the Park in Netflix’s ‘Voicemails for Isabelle’
When I saw the title Voicemails for Isabelle, I really thought we were going to get a standard Hallmark movie formula. But the best thing...
‘Toy Story 5’ Is a Salient, Uncomfortable Warning for Modern Parents
When it comes to Toy Story, people tend to sit in one of two camps: either the franchise should have finished after the third film,...
‘My Royal Nemesis’ Season 1, Episode 13 Recap – They Might Stick the Landing After All
Let me just say that I’m unusually confident about how My Royal Nemesis is going to end. This is despite the fact that Episode 13,...