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Rarely does comedy appeal to me. Even in my neverending search for something new or interesting to watch, if a show or movie appears to have been conceived for the purpose of making people laugh, even with an intriguing concept backing it, I am usually inclined to pass. Why this is would probably be a... Continue Reading →
This past Friday, February 2nd, Netflix released their latest sci-fi series, Altered Carbon. From the moment I saw the trailer and heard the premise, I was interested, though maintained a healthy level of skepticism. With Netflix being particularly hit and miss with their more lofty properties (with Stranger Things being an absolute knockout, but most... Continue Reading →
Star Trek Discovery is deeply weird. Spoilers ahead In my review of The Orville, I mentioned that Discovery isn't the spiritual successor to the Star Trek franchise, and now that I'm further into the series that remains true. I tried to figure out what it might be the successor to (since nothing is truly original)... Continue Reading →
The Orville isn't what most people expected it to be. Despite being the brainchild of Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane it's almost nothing like Family Guy. Sure, there's the occasional dick joke, but the show doesn't rely on crude humour. Instead it relies on plot, story, and character. Not to say that it doesn't have... Continue Reading →
American Gods shouldn't work. The novel is a bizarre but brilliant piece - it's flawed, it's strange, it does something that only Neil Gaiman can do. He takes the epic, the mythical, and manages to preserve that sense of scale while also making it human, relatable. Gaiman's most well known work is the comic series... Continue Reading →
This isn't a final review, as Orphan Black hasn't wrapped up yet, but it's an amazing series. This is the final season of the series, it was always intended to be a five season series, and they are in season five. Orphan Black is a muddy confusing mess, often it's challenging to get to the... Continue Reading →
Iron Fist, the final installment in Marvel's Defenders series on Netflix, released on Friday. The show was set up to introduce an interesting new hero, distinctly set apart from the likes of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage. Unfortunately, what we were presented with ended up being a muddled, disjointed story, centered around a hero... Continue Reading →
This weekend saw the return of The Walking Dead after one of the most shocking and intense mid-season finales to not involve any credible zombie threat. And as you'll remember, the events of that episode has prompted the crew to venture to Hilltop to arrange an uprising against Negan and his lackeys. And that's exactly... Continue Reading →
This week, Legion debuted on FX with a premier episode that may have been lost on some viewers. With little mention of mutants or anything else to truly connect the series to the X-Men franchise. Those only tuning in out of curiosity would have no way to detect the show's comic book roots. The question... Continue Reading →
I've just finished the first episode of the new Netflix adaptation of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and from the start, it is not what I had expected. What drew me to the series was, above all, the cast. I am by no means an authority on the original book series, or even... Continue Reading →
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