Comedy

DMV always being better when a guest star is involved kind of proves my point that it’s at its best when it focuses on anything...

Mark Normand has always been an equal opportunity offender, someone whose material runs the whole gamut of hot-button topics, racial stereotypes, and gender cliches, with...

Steve Carell made a handy focal point for Rooster, and his reluctant bumbling is what helped to situate us at Ludlow and get a sense...

DTF. St Louis has been pretty good since it started. Odd, sure, and unconventional enough for its ultimate destination to feel sometimes worryingly elusive. In...

After quite a long wait, One Piece Season 2 has finally arrived on Netflix to pretty glowing acclaim. Balancing the brazen weirdness of the manga...

You can’t say I didn’t tell you so. In hindsight, it was obvious that Shrinking Season 3 was going to pull the trigger on a major tragedy, and Maya was an obvious candidate. Gaby rebuffing her – entirely understandably! – was a death knell.

Well, goodness. That’s how you do a finale. The climax of One Piece Season 2 had just about everything you’d want in an ending, from...

Only one episode ago, I was saying that One Piece Season 2 utilising flashbacks was something of a novelty, so Episode 7 makes me look pretty stupid, since it’s virtually all flashbacks. But who’s complaining? “Reindeer Shames” is probably the best episode of the season, a truly lovely hour of storytelling and impressive special effects that is both wrenchingly sad and powerfully hopeful.

It occurred to me during Episode 6 of One Piece Season 2 that this is the rare show that doesn’t overindulge in flashbacks. Not that flashbacks are inherently a bad thing, obviously, especially not when something like Paradise exists. But this show’s unwillingness to rely on them is especially apparent here, since “Nami Deerest” uses them quite a lot, and it ends up feeling like a bit of a welcome novelty.

Now, this is more like. After basically sacrificing the previous episode to set up this one, One Piece Season 2 delivers pretty well on the...

The weakest hour of One Piece Season 2 thus far, Episode 4 isn’t bad, by any means, but it’s the first chapter to feel like...

The great novelty of One Piece is that it’s a show of profound, fantastical imagination, all stretchy arms and double cigars and guns in powdered...

One Piece was one of Netflix’s better original offerings, despite nobody really expecting it to effectively adapt Oda Eiichiro’s extremely popular – and thoroughly bonkers...

There’s nothing inherently amusing about being swallowed by a gigantic sea creature, but it’s probably a testament to the quality of One Piece that it...

Here’s an interesting thought. The first season of Netflix’s live-action One Piece adaptation only adapted the first major story arc and completely left out a...

A slightly concerning thing occurred to me in “Save the Cat”, the fourth episode of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. Reggie might be the...

Rooster was always going to be good. A dramedy from the creators of Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Scrubs, starring Steve Carell as a bumbling author intervening in the spiralling love life of his daughter and her cheating husband against the backdrop of a liberal arts college campus? Sometimes these things just write themselves.

DTF St. Louis is that rarest of things, a mystery that is genuinely mysterious. I have no idea who killed Floyd, or why, or what his prior career as a nude male model or his curved penis might have to do with any of it. And that's just the way I like it.

Money is at the forefront of American Classic Episode 3, chiefly in the context of how much of it Richard will need to spend to bring his version of Our Town to life.

The medical drama landscape has changed so much since Scrubs torpedoed its own reputation by trying to carry on past its sell-by date that it’s easy to imagine there’s no place for it in 2026. But if this reboot is proving anything, it’s that we perhaps shouldn’t be so hasty.