John Bernardy has been writing for 25YL since before the site went public and he’s loved every minute. The show most important to him is Twin Peaks. He is husband to a damn fine woman, father to two fascinating individuals, and their pet thinks he’s a good dog walker.
While there are many great shows out there, only a few of them have a perfect beginning—the kind that draws you in immediately and leaves you wanting more. In 25YL’s Perfect Pilots series, we will be looking at pilot episodes we think are flawless. This week John Bernardy looks at the pilot of ER on […] More
You get one of the guys behind the ’90s high school dramedy and critical darling Freaks and Geeks to make a modern-day full-on comedy about going away to college—it should be amazing, right? Well, it was. And a Judd Apatow show should be a hit, too. Right? I remember the Fox announcer at the end […] More
We were ending with the wedding and Season 5 was arced out as their married life. All that was thrown to the side when Robert had to take his leave. It was disappointing not to get to do that ending. He’d been so good; he left a huge void, and there was a concern that […] More
Neon Genesis Evangelion is an Auteur Project, Not Just Kids Piloting Robots The art shows kids in their plug suits, and the trailers show the purple and red robots fighting weird looking monsters. Technically, it is that kind of show, but it’s also much deeper than the typical mecha anime of Evangelion’s era. Sure, the […] More
Russian Doll could’ve ended with that final scene of Season 1 and it would’ve been perfectly satisfying. Nadia Vulvokov (Natasha Lyonne) found a way to overcome her issues to connect with people again. She even found her cat, Oatmeal. It works really well as a single unit of storytelling. But there’s plenty of unfinished business […] More
If Kevin Smith brought up Clerks: The Animated Series’ 20th anniversary on Facebook this weekend to gauge interest in a revival, consider this a hard vote in the affirmative. If his Facebook post is a teaser for something already in the works, consider me giddy. I absolutely adored Clerks: The Animated Series. I devoured the […] More
Series Creator Liz Feldman announced the news on Monday that Dead To Me will be returning to Netflix in 2020 with a 10-episode Season 2. And this is music to our ears. A number of us at 25YL have become fans of this series starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, so we welcome the news, […] More
This week’s Barry episode—“The Audition”—was another classic in what’s shaped up to be quite the season already. Bill Hader and Alec Berg’s show could have been a simple palate cleanser for Game of Thrones. It could have settled to be a pleasant dark comedy with amazing improv-style actors, but that wasn’t good enough for this […] More
Netflix’s Dead To Me has a lot of things going for it, but its most compelling reason to watch is the female friendship forming between Christina Applegate’s Jen Harding and Linda Cardellini’s Judy Hale. It formed fast, and you can tell—even though it’s complicated—that the two women care about each other. As much as this […] More
This week’s episode of Barry begins with the title card minus the ’70s horns we’re accustomed to hearing with it. Not even a cold open scene before it. That’s the first clue we’re in for something different. We get birds chirping, the establishing shot of a house, and it’s reminiscent of Twin Peaks Season 3 Part […] More
After I watched last week’s episode of Barry I was left with this realization: Barry’s going to get caught. He walked out of Esther’s temple and he was seen by everyone in it. I could see him making tough decisions where he has to keep killing the one or two people who could identify him, […] More
Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop’s Spike Spiegel has been cast. The extremely charismatic bounty hunter—and Jeet Kune Do practitioner—is being played by John Cho. Spike’s range cycles between charm, humor, and a deeply serious side, which Cho should be able to handle admirably. Cho came to prominence in the Harold & Kumar comedies, and recently had a […] More
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