Fantasy

In the storied canon of brothers who don’t get along especially well, Dante and Vergil have got to be up there. If you’re a fan...

Like most Adi Shankar Netflix shows, the first season of Devil May Cry had a broad casual audience appeal but somehow managed to really upset hardcore fans...

Well, we have plenty to discuss here, don’t we? As well as finally bringing the long-simmering conflict between Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk to something...

We’re so close, aren’t we? New York is slipping through Wilson Fisk’s fingers. Matt Murdock is having to negotiate with saints. Buck has had to...

Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 exists in “frozen time”, continuity-wise, so it’s no wonder that the ending sets up a second season. As we’ve already...

You didn’t think we had left Hawkins, Indiana, entirely, did you? These days, the idea of letting a franchise die is utterly unconscionable, not when...

Can you be nostalgic for nostalgia? This question was at the forefront of my mind while soaking in the ten episodes of Netflix’s animated spin-off...

You can tell that Daredevil: Born Again is reaching a fever pitch in Season 2, since “Requiem” feels in many ways like an effort to...

The good news — or bad news, I suppose, depending on where you’re sitting — is that, despite getting a shard of glass wedged in...

Fittingly for an hour titled “Gloves Off”, Daredevil: Born Again is taking some pretty big narrative swings in Episode 4. I don’t think anybody expected...

If “Shoot the Moon” was a deliberately slower-paced episode of Daredevil: Born Again, Episode 3, “The Scales & the Sword”, is the payoff for sitting...

I was initially curious why Disney+ elected to air two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 at the same time instead of letting the...

“New York is back,” says a happy bystander in the Season 2 premiere of Daredevil: Born Again, in one of those boots-on-the-ground handheld interstitials from BB Urich that the first season used to take the political temperature.

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...

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...