Clay Dockery is an actor, author, and impresario extraordinaire. They are the co-editor of Why I Geek: An Anthology of Fandom Origin Stories and was the co-head organizer and creative director of MISTI-Con, Coal Hill Con, and The West Wing Weekend fandom conventions. They live in New York City with their girlfriend and their two chonky cats.
The following recap contains spoilers for Poker Face, S1E7, “The Future of the Sport” (Story by Joe Lawson & CS Fischer, teleplay by Joe Lawson, and directed by Iain B. MacDonald) If we were ranking them, the first six episodes of Poker Face would have all fallen somewhere between “very good” and “great” but they all […] More
The following recap contains spoilers for the Season 2 premiere of Carnival Row, S2E1, “Fight and Flight” (Story by Erik Oleson and Travis Beacham & Marc Guggenheim, teleplay by Erik Oleson, and directed by Thor Freudenthal) and S2E2, “New Dawn” (written by Sarah Byrd and directed by Thor Freudenthal) It seems hard to fathom that […] More
The following recap contains spoilers for Poker Face S1E6, “Exit Stage Death” (written by Chris Downey and directed by Ben Sinclair) Poker Face S1E6, “Exit Stage Death,” really makes me wonder how it is that the series works so well because sometimes, in episodes like this one, the elements feel like they should not fit […] More
The following recap contains spoilers for Poker Face S1E5, “Time of the Monkey” (written by Wyatt Cain & Charlie Peppers, and directed by Lucky McKee) Poker Face S1E5, “Time of the Monkey” may have been the funniest, and twistiest episode of the series so far. But in this recap, I can’t be sure of that. […] 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
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 whole series and the character arc of John Locke, particularly for the events of “Walkabout” Lost, S1E4, (written by David Fury and directed by Jack Bender) which first aired on ABC in the United States on October 13, 2004. “Walkabout” begins, as so many episodes of Lost do, with […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Season 1 Finale, S1E8, “Alloyed” (written by Gennifer Hutchison & John D. Payne & Patrick McKay and directed by Wayne Che Yip) The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1 finale (S1E8, “Alloyed”) was not as dark as […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S1E7, “The Eye” (written by Jason Cahill and directed by Charlotte Brändström) The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S1E7 (“The Eye”) is the darkest hour of the series so far, in fact it may be the darkest hour […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S1E4, “The Great Wave” (written by Stephany Folsom and J. D. Payne & Patrick McKay, and directed by Wayne Che Yip), S1E5, “Partings” (written by Justin Doble, and directed by Wayne Che Yip), and S1E6, “Udûn” (written by Nicholas Adams & […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S1E3, “Adar” (written by Jason Cahill and Justin Doble, and directed by Wayne Yip) “Adar” the third installment of Amazon’s new show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power had to do a lot of heavy lifting to get […] More
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