
TV: Alice in Borderland (Season 1 & 2)
Whenever a series escalates into a truly obsessive binge for me, I start questioning whether it’s actually a great…
February 1, 2023Whenever a series escalates into a truly obsessive binge for me, I start questioning whether it’s actually a great…
February 1, 2023While Kleo doesn’t do enough to rise to the top ranks of contemporary spy TV, it does plenty to…
October 21, 2022On the one hand, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law playfully confronts the irradiated green elephant in the MCU’s room: its…
October 14, 2022After bemoaning my frustrating inability to connect with massively popular properties like The Sandman, here comes Thor: Love and…
September 18, 2022Certain widely beloved properties and creators in the science fiction and fantasy genre have never entirely connected with me.…
September 16, 2022So, how does one explain the appeal of Dave? That’s a tough one, because even after twenty episodes, the…
August 14, 2022In the mid-2010s – “the Teens,” the “Tennies,” are we calling that decade anything yet? – I went through…
July 18, 2022The only problem with Doctor Strange as a character is that, well, he just isn’t all that interesting. Fortunately,…
June 24, 2022Underwhelming outings aren’t uncommon in the MCU these days, but at least Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) delivers something…
June 7, 2022If anyone can afford not to be risk-averse, you’d think it would be Marvel, but they haven’t exactly gone…
May 8, 2022A sequel series, to a movie I didn’t see, set in a comic book universe I’ve never cared about?…
March 20, 2022If Cowboy Bebop’s cancellation was a mercy killing, Y: The Last Man’s demise was tragically premature. After several years…
January 30, 2022It certainly appears that Marvel intends to leave no stone unturned in mining their vast comics universe for new…
January 23, 2022Two versions of me watched Hawkeye. One was the version who had faithfully followed the MCU with geeky enthusiasm…
December 26, 2021It’s almost as if an unfair world is punishing Marvel for finally diversifying. Just as the long-overdue Black Widow…
November 20, 2021