TV Review: ‘Devs’ takes the full season to find gorgeous and fascinating conclusions
Devs took its time reaching a definite conclusion. A series that always moved at its own pace, Alex Garland’s first dive into creating a television... Read More
Michael Frank
Michael Frank is a film critic and journalist based in Brooklyn. He thinks the Before trilogy should be in the Louvre and once bumped into John Oliver at brunch. He has bylines in RogerEbert, Film Inquiry, The Playlist, and AwardsWatch.
TV Recap: ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ Season 1 Episode 9 — “The Creator”
With only two episodes remaining, Jason Segel’s Dispatches from Elsewhere sat at an impasse. With the game (seemingly) in the past and its characters drifting... Read More
TV Recap: ‘Devs’ — Season Finale: Episode 8
Though much of the first season of Devs has crawled forward, its finale quickened the pace before bringing life to a screeching halt. As both... Read More
TV Recap: ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ Season 1 Episode 8 — “Lee”
As the game “officially” ended in last week’s episode, the eighth installment of Jason Segel’s Dispatches from Elsewhere forced itself to move in a different... Read More
TV Recap: ‘Devs’ — Episode 7
Alex Garland’s Devs has never been in a rush to get to the climax of its story. Its penultimate episode taught us that lesson once... Read More
TV Recap: ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ Season 1 Episode 7 — “Cave of Kelpius”
After focusing on “Everyone” last week, Jason Segel’s Dispatches from Elsewhere moved forward in leaps and bounds in its seventh installment “Cave of Kelpius”. Giving... Read More
TV Recap: ‘Devs’ — Episode 6
For the past few years, HBO’s Westworld has held the title of most thought-provoking TV show. Through an expansive universe, it explored ideas of consciousness,... Read More
TV Recap: ‘Devs’ — Episode 5
Through four episodes, Alex Garland’s Devs worked as a processing TV series, one that felt aimless and ever-expanding. It mentioned big ideas, but only showed... Read More
TV Recap: ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ Season 1 Episode 5 — “Clara”
Through four episodes of Jason Segel’s Dispatches from Elsewhere, the name “Clara” has been mentioned with incessance. This lost woman has remained a mystery, though... Read More
Interview: ‘Swallow’ director Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis has made one of 2020’s most interesting films thus far with Swallow, a story of a pregnant housewife with pica disorder, the... Read More
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