The following recap contains spoilers for The Last of Us S1E3, “Long Long Time” (written by Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin and directed by Peter Hoar) The first two episodes of The Last of Us were largely praised for their accuracy and dedication to the original video game source material, with the only major exception […] More
The following contains spoilers for the Poker Face premiere, S1E1, “Dead Man’s Hand” (written and directed by Rian Johnson) and S1E2, “The Night Shift” (written by Alice Ju, and directed by Rian Johnson) How appealing you will find the new Peacock original series Poker Face comes down to how you feel about this sentence: Rian […] More
The following recap contains spoilers for Shrinking S1E2, “Fortress of Solitude” (written by Jason Segel & Brett Goldstein & Bill Lawrence and directed by Ry Russo-Young). To be honest, Episode 2 of Shrinking has me a little worried. In Episode 1 I was taken by the show’s emotional honesty while I lamented the tone of […] More
The following contains spoilers for Shrinking S1E1, “Coin Flip” (written by Jason Segel & Brett Goldstein & Bill Lawrence and directed by James Ponsoldt) Here’s the premise of Shrinking, as encapsulated in the promotional blurb you can find on IMDb and elsewhere: A grieving therapist starts to tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Last of Us S1E2, “Infected” (written by Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin and directed by Craig Mazin) Through the first two episodes of HBO’s The Last of Us, the three flashback scenes that precede the 20-years-later timeline have been some of the show’s most compelling and dramatic revelations. These world-building […] More
Welcome back! It’s time for another edition of Larks & Recs, wherein you’ll find recommendations from our esteemed group of writers and the occasional lark into foreign territory. This week, Hawk Ripjaw is watching Tulsa King, Clay Dockery discovers some new music, and Robin Moon is revisiting BoJack Horseman. What have you been into lately? […] More
Welcome back! In this installment, we’re going to focus on upcoming new and returning TV series set to premiere in February 2023, though we’ll include as much as we can working later into the year, prioritizing things with release dates. Putting this list together is unfortunately difficult, as it involves pulling from multiple sources of […] More
So the Night Court reboot has finally premiered. And with that, Night Court, which initially went off the air in 1992, has joined the extremely long list of shows from the ’80s that are back on television. Like Magnum P.I. and Quantum Leap, and so many other shows that seem to be rebooted everywhere, it […] More
There are few clearer cinematic shorthands than using the game of chess to signify intelligence with a bit of sinister manipulation thrown in as well. The Chessmaster is a genius manipulator, controlling the other characters and the action while still being removed from it. Chess is central to this idea because even to the viewer […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Last of Us S1E1, “When You’re Lost in the Darkness” (written by Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin and directed by Craig Mazin) From the very first moments of HBO’s new Sunday night prestige action-drama, The Last of Us, we know that this will not be like any other Zombie-apocalypse […] More
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