Anthology
Anthology TV series, where each episode, or perhaps each season, is a distinct story
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in MusicLoops, Disintegrating: Grouper — Shade
Even when a record is made up of material recorded over the last 15 years, Grouper finds a way to make it something new. Shade isn’t the first anthology-style release in the Grouper catalog; this approach may flash as lazy on the surface (and this may not be entirely unfounded), but the work speaks for […] More
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The Premise S1E5 Offers a Transcendent “Butt Plug” (Season Finale)
The following contains spoilers for The Premise S1E5, “Butt Plug,” the Season 1 finale For its season finale, The Premise offers us a “Butt Plug” and whereas I questioned the decision to kick off the series with an episode that attempted to combine a sexual theme with a deeper question of justice in an outlandish […] More
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The Premise S1E4: “The Commenter” — Are You Listening to Yourself?
The following contains spoilers for The Premise S1E4, “The Commenter” Four episodes in I find myself pondering a bit what The Premise is up to overall. There is a similarity between “The Commenter” and the previous episodes of the season that is actually a little difficult to pin down. Each story is playing with aspects […] More
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The Premise S1E3: “The Ballad of Jesse Wheeler”
The following contains spoilers for The Premise S1E3, “The Ballad of Jesse Wheeler” After Abbi (Kaitlyn Dever) gives the best valedictorian speech ever at the end of The Premise S1E3, we may well wonder: was she telling the truth? But the strength of “The Ballad of Jesse Wheeler” lies in the fact that it truly […] More
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The Premise Premieres with a “Social Justice Sex Tape” and a “Moment of Silence”
The following contains spoilers for The Premise S1E1, “Social Justice Sex Tape,” and S1E2, “Moment of Silence” An anthology television show presents an inherent risk. Rather than one continuing story that sucks you in and can compel you to keep going even when it drags, a show like The Premise presents a different story each […] More
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The Twilight Zone, Burgess Meredith, and the Paradox of Reading
Burgess Meredith is best known to audiences as Mickey, the hardscrabble gym owner/boxing trainer in Rocky, but I’ll always remember him first for two of his four appearances on the iconic original Twilight Zone series: “Time Enough at Last” (S1E8) and “The Obsolete Man” (S2E29). These two episodes are absolute classics of the original series, […] More
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: “Special Delivery” (S5E10)
Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. We’re going to look at Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and more specifically, the Ray Bradbury-penned episode, “Special Delivery.” The 1950s can be considered the golden age of television anthology series, particularly for the science fiction, horror, and mystery genres. One can hardly think of that era of television without conjuring images […] More
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Amazing Stories’ “Mirror, Mirror”: Scorsese’s Fever Dream Fable
Anthology series are all the rage now; Shudder has Creepshow, CBS rebooted Twilight Zone (again), Hulu started Monsterland, even Quibi has 50 States of Fright. Last year, AppleTV+ and Steven Spielberg brought Amazing Stories back to TV, reprieving the NBC series by giving it a new opportunity and home. Today’s Episode of the Week, “Mirror, […] More
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Room 104 S4E12 Recap and Analysis: “Generations” (Series Finale)
Room 104 S4E12 “Generations” (directed by Sydney Fleischmann and written by Julian Wass) brings things to an end with either lilies (white) or golden daffodils, but whatever happens after the frame turns to black hardly matters. Is this the end, or will there be another year? At least with regard to Room 104, the answer […] More
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50 States of Fright is a Fun Anthology on the Wrong Platform
Quibi wants to change the way you’re being entertained. Striving to be the Netflix exclusive to your phone, the service produces episodes of its shows in segments of ten-minutes or less. Having now seen a couple of things on Quibi I can honestly say the content is rather good. Earlier this year I saw Veena […] More
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Room 104 S4E11 Recap and Analysis: “Fur”-give Me If I Struggled With This Episode
It is pretty much in the DNA of a show like Room 104 that you are going to like some episodes more than others. And, if you’re honest, you probably really think some are just worse than others in a way that calls out for something like universal approval. People will disagree, sure, and to […] More
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Room 104 S4E10 Recap and Analysis: “The Night Babby Died”
Room 104 S4E10 “The Night Babby Died” (written by Jenée LaMarque and Julian Wass, and directed by LaMarque) presents a fairly straightforward story, particularly by the standards of Room 104. It is certainly a far cry from the fantastical nature of last week’s “The Last Man” (which was bonkers), lacks the level of magical realism […] More
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