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‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Part 1 Review – A Delightful Return to Nevermore Cleaved Needlessly In Half
Let me just start by saying that I’m not a fan of reviewing half a season either. But if Netflix is going to be adamant...
‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Part 1 Ending Explained – And The Killer Is…
As much as I despise Netflix’s new approach of releasing new seasons of key IP in several parts, Wednesday Season 2 is a good example of...
‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Episode 3 – The Camping Trip Chronicles
Allow me to start with something I neglected to mention in the previous episode, since it becomes important here in Episode 3, "Call of the Woe".
‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – The Stalker’s Identity Is Revealed
Wednesday Season 2 started as it means to go on, capably proved by Episode 2, which makes it clear that things aren't going to get any simpler as we go.
‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – Welcome Back to Nevermore Academy
Students invariably spend the summer holidays getting into mischief, so on that level, at least, Wednesday Addams is pretty normal.
‘Twisted Metal’ Season 2 Is Off to the Races With A Fun, Messy Three-Episode Premiere
Start your engines, ladies and gentlemen. Twisted Metal is back for Season 2, and it’s bigger and better than ever. This might not be immediately apparent in...
‘Twisted Metal’ Season 2 Is Bigger, Better, And More Like the Games
Two years after Season 1 turned out to be surprisingly good, and thirty years after the debut of the long-abandoned PlayStation series on which it’s...
Here’s Everything You Need to Remember About ‘Twisted Metal’ Season 1
Bucking the trend of video game adaptations being woeful, Peacock’s Twisted Metal was a good time. This is especially surprising considering it was based on...
Netflix’s ‘Leviathan’ Adaptation Puts Its Focus In All The Wrong Places
You’d need both hands and at least half a foot to count all the cool stuff in Leviathan, Netflix’s anime adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s World...
‘The Old Guard 2’ Is The Awkward Middle Child Nobody Likes
I never thought The Old Guard was as good as everyone else seemed to. It was fine, don’t get me wrong. It had kinetic hand-to-hand...
‘Ironheart’ Ending Explained – A Long-Awaited Villain Debut Caps Off An Interestingly Flawed Season
And just like that, it’s over. Feels weird, doesn’t it? Ironheart debuted with the first three episodes, and the ending arrives just a week later....
‘Ironheart’ Premiere (Episodes 1-3) Recap – And Just Like That It’s Halfway Done
You have to wonder what Marvel Studios is hoping for with Ironheart. I’m a professional film and TV critic, and someone had to tell me it was out.
I Found the Remake of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Endearing and wonderfully Thematic
I often wonder–though the answer is obvious–why live-action remakes of animated movies are made. From an artistic perspective, you could argue that the merit is...
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Ending Explained – A Slightly Random Conclusion Caps Off A Mixed-Bag Season
It’s probably fitting that a show as mixed as Heavenly Ever After has an ending to suit, with Episodes 11 and 12 providing some answers...
‘Fountain of Youth’ Review – An Uninspired Forgery Of Countless Better Treasure-Hunting Classics
There’s a moment in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth when treasure hunter Luke Purdue (John Krasinski, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) steals a Rembrandt painting from...
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Episodes 9 & 10 Recap – The Best Double-Bill Yet Finally Finds Some Depth
There’s probably a case to be made that nine episodes into a 12-episode season is too late for a show to get good. But this is also likely underselling Heavenly Ever After, which has always been “good”, so to speak, and has mostly just failed to progress beyond that.
Breaking Down Every Episode Of ‘Love, Death + Robots’ Season 4
Netflix’s often stellar sci-fi/fantasy anthology series Love, Death + Robots returns for Season 4 with another clutch of episodes, each highlighting a different style of...
‘Love, Death + Robots’ Season 4 Review – The First Collection With More Misses Than Hits
Anthologies are always a mixed bag by definition, but Tim Miller and David Fincher’s Love, Death + Robots has remained remarkably consistent throughout its first three seasons...
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Episodes 7 & 8 Recap – And Things Are Starting To Sag
Maybe it’s just me, but Heavenly Ever After is starting to feel like a lot. It could be the episode runtimes, granted, which stretch to almost feature-length twice a week.
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Episodes 5 & 6 Recap – To Hell and Back Again
I do wonder if Heavenly Ever After might be too mawkish for its own good. I continue to enjoy the K-Drama, don’t get me wrong, but in Episodes 5 & 6, I began to drift a little.