Fantasy

Stranger Things Season 5 hasn’t quite felt like Stranger Things of old yet, something remedied by Episode 3, “The Turnbow Trap”.

You could make a case, if you were so inclined, that the Season 5 premiere of Stranger Things felt every second of its runtime because it was trying a bit too hard to settle us back in.

It takes an effort to remember this now since it was roughly a lifetime ago, but the abduction of Will Byers in Season 1 of Stranger Things remains the most important component of the narrative.

It: Welcome to Derry has held off on leveraging the iconic smirking visage of Bill Skarsgård’s bulbous-headed Pennywise the Clown.

Talamasca: The Secret Order has one of those endings. You know the kind I mean. Episode 6 – in hindsight, six episodes were nowhere near...

It’s hard to critique It: Welcome to Derry. It has been since the beginning, really. On the level of its broad storytelling, it leaves a lot to be desired, with two pretty ill-fitting concurrent storylines playing out simultaneously, and little overlap as yet.

When Talamasca: The Secret Order started, it was quite enjoyably serious.

What I liked about Talamasca: The Secret Order initially is that, despite being set in a world of vampires, witches, and other supernatural ephemera, it presented itself as a pretty straight-up espionage thriller.

I think it’s safe to say that It: Welcome to Derry has been much better than anyone expected it to be.

I’ve got to be honest, I kind of see Guy’s point in Talamasca: The Secret Order.

The Witcher has never been very good at endings, since it’s one of Netflix’s crown jewel IPs and makes a ton of money, so it’s...

The structure of The Witcher Season 4 is weird, isn't it? That's the only way I can think to describe it.

It's easy to think about the disappointingly inert previous episode as the calm before the storm in light of "Twilight of the Wolf", an all-guns-blazing, protracted action sequence that barely comes up for air.

Not to get all philosophical on anyone, but sometimes resting is the quickest way to get somewhere. But this is a difficult concept to get...

“Out of the frying pan, into the fire” comes to mind. To be fair, you could apply this idea to most of what has happened...

In my review of The Witcher Season 4, I moaned about the whole thing feeling a little weirdly siloed and disconnected, its core storylines happening in parallel...

Let’s just get the elephant in the room out of the way – Liam Hemsworth is fine. Sure, he’s visibly doing an impression of Henry...

Witchers are labourers, essentially. The labour is just hunting and killing monsters. They’re fantastical pest controllers, really, itinerant exterminators who will do the dirty jobs...

Season 4 of The Witcher has its back against the wall in the most considerable way possible. Nobody liked the previous season very much, and that was...

There’s a very compelling argument to be made that, at least under Disney, Star Wars: Visions is the most interesting and perhaps even important project...