‘Government Cheese’ TV Review: David Oyelowo (Barely) Rises Above in 1960s American Dream Comedy That Can’t Decide What It Wants to Be [C-]
Have you ever almost drowned, then subsequently been released from prison only to start looking towards the life you lost while in there? It might... Read More
TV Reviews
‘The Studio’ TV Review: Seth Rogen’s Scathing and Hilarious Look at Hollywood From the Inside Gets the Green Light [B+]
“Is it weird that all of the live-action characters are white and all of the non-white actors are CG?” Crafting a Kool-Aid adaptation should feel... Read More
‘Win or Lose’ TV Review: Pixar’s First Series Takes Some Bold Swings but Strikes Out with Trans Character Erasure [B]
You can’t discuss Pixar’s first original TV series, Win Or Lose, without bringing up what has been lost in the cutting room. Disney were hardly... Read More
‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Review: Showtime’s Buzziest Series Still Stings [B]
It has been two years since the shocking season finale that left one of our favorite Yellowjackets dead and another being hauled away on a... Read More
‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Review: Mike White’s Ugly Americans Invade Thailand in Bracingly Funny New Installment [A-]
Wanderlust can take control when a vacation begins, an insatiable need to explore and desire to find new experiences. The feeling claws its way in... Read More
‘Severance’ Season 2 Review: It’s Time to Clock Back with the Innies and Outies of Lumon [A]
You can be anyone you want to be at your job. It’s a complete break from regular life: when the time-clock is punched, the edges... Read More
‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Review: It’s Big Bucks, All Whammies in Failed Follow Up to One of TV’s Best First Seasons [C-]
It’s been over three years since the first season of the Emmy-winning global blockbuster that was the Netflix original series Squid Game. Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk’s... Read More
‘Somebody Somewhere’ TV Review: HBO’s Underrated Heartland Comedy Closes as Hilarious as Ever
Maybe a cunt pillow is the last thing you’d expect to get shipped out of Manhattan, Kansas, but Somebody Somewhere has proven through its first... Read More
‘A Very Royal Scandal’ TV Review: Dutiful and Boring, There’s Simply No Scoop Here
Can a movie about an interview reveal more about its subject than the interview itself? With the recent, Emmy-nominated Netflix movie Scoop – adapted from... Read More
‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’ Review: A Clichéd, Lurid Afterschool Special Despite an Excellent Performance from Josh Rivera
After dramatizing some of our time’s most sensational collisions of news, entertainment and culture stories, it’s not surprising that it would be executive producers Ryan... Read More
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