Based on a 2019 novel by author Taylor Jenkins Reid, Amazon Prime Video’s musical drama series Daisy Jones & the Six takes viewers back to the 1970s, a time when a light pop-rock act in the vein of Fleetwood Mac could dominate album sales and become the biggest band in the world. Given the milieu,… Read More Nearly Almost Famous | Daisy Jones & the Six (2023) Amazon Prime Series Premiere
Even for as contentious as Star Wars fandom can be, just about everybody seems to like The Mandalorian. While Disney’s other streaming series from the franchise have met with mixed to outright hostile reaction, most fans still eagerly awaited the return of beloved characters Mando and Grogu. Now that it’s back for a third season,… Read More Never Trust a Pirate | The Mandalorian Season 3 Premiere (2023) on Disney+
Nostalgia reboots of old movies are so common right now (Fatal Attraction coming imminently to Paramount+!), one can hardly blame CBS for trying to revive James Cameron’s 1994 blockbuster True Lies as a weekly spy/action series. That it would be terrible should also be no surprise, given the network’s history. The trailers certainly looked awful.… Read More Well, This Was a Disaster | True Lies (2023) CBS Series Premiere
The job market out there is hell. The company you work for probably has no concern for your welfare. Your boss may seem like a monster. Even if it started out as a good place to work, odds are it won’t feel that way forever. What’re you gonna do about it, quit? You really think… Read More He Gets Results | The Consultant Season 1 (2023) on Amazon Prime
Absent nearly four years since the first season debuted, the return of Amazon Prime’s Carnival Row feels more like the fulfillment of a contractual obligation than a property the streamer is committed to supporting. The second season is already confirmed to be the last. As so many other outlets have tripped over themselves canceling in-development… Read More Just Standard Doom, Gloom and Inner Torment | Carnival Row Season 2 Premiere (2023) on Amazon Prime
Star Trek: Picard begins its third and final season haunted by the fact that (how to put this delicately?) the show’s first two seasons basically sucked. I’m honestly at a loss to decide which of the two was worse, but at the moment am inclined to say the second. Planned as a big reunion and… Read More The Past Matters | Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Premiere (2023) on Paramount+
I feel like I should be enjoying HBO’s latest prestige series The Last of Us a lot more than I actually am. I want to like this show, and don’t get me wrong, I don’t actively dislike it. As expected of the network, the program has excellent production values. It also has well-drawn, appealing characters… Read More HBO’s The Last of Us Doesn’t Make Any Damn Sense
Filmmaker Rian Johnson has had quite a journey from being the pariah of Star Wars fandom just a few years ago to a celebrated auteur and Oscar nominee. Hot on the heels of the successful Netflix run for his feature Glass Onion, Johnson’s new TV series Poker Face premiered on Peacock, garnering a lot of… Read More Thinking About the Angles | Poker Face (2023) Peacock Series Premiere
The new Hulu comedy series Extraordinary finally acknowledges something that I bet a lot of people feel these days: Super powers have gotten to be boring. Coming from Disney, the entertainment giant whose coffers are overflowing with revenue from its Marvel division, that’s actually a very bold attitude to take. In these days when superhero… Read More Are You Looking to Start Your Power Journey Today? | Extraordinary Season 1 (2023) on Hulu
Based on the popular video game series, HBO hopes that its new apocalyptic survival horror drama The Last of Us will be the television event of the season, the type of show that inspires enthusiastic water cooler discussion after every episode. The network specializes in that type of thing, so it’s not an unreasonable expectation.… Read More Fear the Fungal Dead | The Last of Us (2023) HBO Series Premiere
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