
Novella: The Jade Setter of Janloon by Fonda Lee
The Green Bone Saga is one of my favorite series, immersive, compelling, and straight-up entertaining. The trilogy must have…
February 6, 2023The Green Bone Saga is one of my favorite series, immersive, compelling, and straight-up entertaining. The trilogy must have…
February 6, 2023It’s easy to see why Netflix’s 1899 was green-lit. A complex, period mystery box set on a ship, from…
February 6, 2023Having enjoyed previous Mindy Kaling projects, I, well, still wasn’t particularly interested in The Sex Lives of College Girls,…
February 6, 2023Whenever a series escalates into a truly obsessive binge for me, I start questioning whether it’s actually a great…
February 1, 2023Who needs protagonists with the moral high ground? Not Dead to Me, a winning dark comedy that turned its…
January 28, 2023Terry Miles’ Rabbits (2021) is definitely my kind of book: a fast-paced, inventive adventure full of secret realities and…
January 22, 2023If there’s a defining drawback to Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, it may be the way it cherishes…
January 16, 2023A loopy, cartoonish trailer lured me to Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013), a comedic fantasy based…
January 16, 2023The concluding season of Derry Girls is a fucking delight. This will surprise nobody who enjoyed the earlier run,…
January 15, 2023While Apple’s Israeli-produced, Iran-set thriller Tehran is by no means as impressive as its hit spy series Slow Horses,…
January 9, 2023The third season of Mythic Quest remains an amusing, effortlessly watched entry in Apple’s catalogue, even if it doesn’t…
January 7, 2023Early on, it didn’t seem likely to me that Don’t Worry Darling (2022)—a major release that saw as much…
January 5, 2023You wouldn’t know it from reading previous year-end whinges on this blog, but I love this time of year.…
December 31, 2022In year chock-full of wonderful shows, Apple’s Slow Horses, based on the intricate, funny spy novels of Mick Herron,…
December 31, 2022