A review of the Succession Season Three premiere, “Secession,” coming up just as soon as a Pope follows me on Twitter… Midway through “Secession,” Kendall’s girlfriend Naomi Pierce jokes on the phone that he may be the best man in the world. Kendall laughs, then adds, an expression on his …
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A review of this week’sLokionDisney+, “The Nexus Event,” coming up — just as soon as a prince tells me how the real world works… And that, folks, is what all that setup was for. The first two episodes of Loki at times seemed to be straining mightily under the weight …
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A review of the WandaVision finale coming up just as soon as I say that debriefs are for the weak… I recently wrote an essay praising WandaVision for leaning into its existence as a television show, rather than a Marvel Cinematic Universe film drawn out to fill up nine episodes. …
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A review of “The Believer,” this week’s The Mandalorian, coming up just as soon as I fill out those TPS reports… Jango Fett appeared without his helmet multiple times in Attack of the Clones. On Clone Wars, Mandalorians repeatedly showed their faces to others. The Mandalorian creative team didn’t inherit …
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“I dunno,” Caleb says. “The world looks a little like a nightmare, Dolores.” “Change is messy,” Dolores replies. “Difficult.” Take a look around, people. They’re both right! Set in a chaotic, desperate world that’s a bit too close for comfort right now, Westworld‘s season finale (“Crisis Theory”) is based on …
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A review of this week’s The Good Place, “Mondays, Am I Right?”, just as soon as I’m back in my toilet library… On last week’s Good Place, Team Cockroach (with an assist from Raylan Givens) triumphed over the literal forces of evil (and institutional stubbornness), setting up a Happily Ever …
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A review of this week’s The Mandalorian, “The Gunslinger,” coming up just as soon as I play cards with my droids… “The Gunslinger” takes place around and then on the most famous planet in Star Wars lore, Tatooine, and includes familiar landmarks like the Mos Eisley Spaceport (which is festooned …
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“A daywillcome when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenlyyour joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.” When Tyrion Lannister said this to his sister Cersei years ago, he couldn’t have known how right he was. Game of Thrones‘ penultimate episode …
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A review of “Toilet,” this week’s Better Things, coming up just as soon as I flush a small dog or a kilo of cocaine… Shit happens to Sam Fox every week on Better Things, but never has the theme been as literal as it is in “Toilet.” Sam spends much …
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A review of “He Said, She Said,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I say aloud to other men that Kathryn Bigelow should direct the next Star Wars… “He Said, She Said,” the directorial debut of cast member Stephanie Beatriz, fits into a noble but imperfect …
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