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Here’s What’s Different About the Yellowjackets Season 2 Opening Credits
Yellowjackets Season 2 has answered my prayers to the ancient gods of the dirt and the sky with some changes to the opening title sequence. This should come as no surprise, as the credits to Season 1 contained a number of snippets from that season. I’m inferring it’s the same deal here, with a lot […] More
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Arrested Development Season 5 Made the Other Four Worse
When it was first announced that the famously twice-canceled cult comedy Arrested Development was coming back with a fourth season produced and distributed by Netflix—way back in 2013, when streaming originals as a whole were still a new, unproven concept—reactions from fans were mixed. While there was a sizable contingent that was naturally excited for […] More
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Yellowjackets Season 1 Recap: Questions and Mysteries Heading into Season 2
With Yellowjackets Season 2 on the horizon, it’s as good a time as any to look back at Season 1. I’ve set out to provide a recap, but it’s largely structured around lingering questions and the broader mysteries that shape the show. I’ll take them one at a time, in an order I think makes […] More
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You Season 4 Part 2, aka Fight Club for White Women
The following contains spoilers for You Season 4 Part 2 I was so eager to think Rhys’s (Ed Speleers) presence meant the end of Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) that I completely missed the warning signs. I was so deep in it that when Joe killed the real Rhys, I thought the writers pulled from the […] More
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The Consultant’s Satire Feels a Bit Undercooked (Season 1 Analysis)
The following contains spoilers for The Consultant Season 1 From the beginning, I’ve felt that The Consultant was aiming at a tone verging on Kafka—not through byzantine bureaucracy, to be clear, but in a certain kind of absurdist realism. Having now finished the whole season, I think that impression was on the mark in terms […] More
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Hello… You Season 4 Part 1
The following contains spoilers for You Season 4 Part 1 (S4E1–S4E5), released on February 9th This highly anticipated fourth instalment does not disappoint. You Season 4 Part 1 is anything but boring, repetitive, or formulaic. Showrunner and creator Sarah Gamble has done an incredible job keeping audiences on the edge of their seats with this […] More
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Hunters Season 2: The Final Season Is Cathartic to the Very End
The following contains spoilers for Hunters Season 2 Just before COVID-19 took hold of the Western World in March of 2020, the first season of Hunters dropped exclusively on Prime Video on February 21st. The series created by David Weil did not generate the pandemic cult WandaVision had, but it did leave a powerful impression […] More
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The Bad Batch Season 2 Ignites a Spark of Hope
It might be a fool’s hope, but The Bad Batch Season 2 potentializes a grand payoff in an otherwise dull show. Echo, Wrecker, Tech, Hunter (all voiced masterfully by Dee Bradley Baker), and Omega (Michelle Ang) are off on episodic adventures once more. Our heroes take on mercenary work to make due in the galaxy. The […] More
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Doctor Who’s First Season Is Absolutely Fantastic
Fittingly enough for a show based around time travel, revisiting the first season of Doctor Who’s 2005 revival feels like opening a time capsule of sorts. The series’ previous glory days as a staple of British television were long behind it, an attempt at a revival in the mid-90s went nowhere, and the show wouldn’t […] More
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FX’s Kindred Shows the Present Is Not So Different From the Past
The following contains some spoilers for Season 1 of Kindred (created by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and based on the book by Octavia E. Butler) Showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins brings a fresh and modern perspective to Octavia Butler’s acclaimed novel Kindred. Core elements of the story remain the same, as Dana James (Mallori Johnson), a 26-year-old who’s recently […] More
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The White Lotus Season 2: Theories and Unanswered Questions Before the Final Two Episodes
The beauty of both this current season and the first season of The White Lotus is we know the destination at the end of the long road. The body bags are coming by the end of Episode 7, but the journey to get there and the characters we develop are what make the show worth […] More
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More Than A Sci-Fi Show: The Heartfelt Season 4 of Doctor Who
It’s no secret that most Doctor Who fans praise David Tennant as their favourite Doctor. Despite the success of Billie Piper and Freema Agyeman as his first two companions, Rose Tyler and Martha Jones respectively, Catherine Tate’s Donna Noble is another firm fan-favourite. So the success of Season 4 was inevitable, really. Doctor Who never […] More
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