Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Television
TV: The Big Door Prize (Season 1)
Panning for gold in the streams of streaming, one could be forgiven for overlooking The Big Door Prize, given…
May 21, 2023
Comedy, Fantasy, Film, GamesFilm: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
On the spectrum of D&D fandom, I’m somewhere in the middle: enough history with the game to remember it…
May 7, 2023
Comedy, Fantasy, TelevisionTV: Extraordinary (Season 1)
The British live-action comedy-fantasy Extraordinary has an identical premise to the animated Disney film Encanto: what if everyone received a…
April 30, 2023
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Film, Science FictionFilm: How It Ends
Future media historians writing about film production from the COVID-19 pandemic will find a perfect case study in How…
April 24, 2023
Animation, Drama, Fantasy, TelevisionTV: Undone (Season 2)
The fast and furious rush of new content is dying down finally, but there are still so many new,…
April 6, 2023
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, TelevisionTV: John from Cincinnati
Like most of the universe, I missed the train on John from Cincinnati, a one-season failure from co-creators Kem…
February 25, 2023
Fantasy, Fiction, Science FictionNovel: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
I missed the hullabaloo surrounding Susanna Clarke’s debut, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which didn’t seem like my kind…
February 18, 2023
Fantasy, FictionNovella: 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, 2023
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: 1899
It’s easy to see why Netflix’s 1899 was green-lit. A complex, period mystery box set on a ship, from…
February 6, 2023
Fantasy, Fiction, Science FictionNovel: Rabbits by Terry Miles
Terry Miles’ Rabbits (2021) is definitely my kind of book: a fast-paced, inventive adventure full of secret realities and…
January 22, 2023
Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
If there’s a defining drawback to Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, it may be the way it cherishes…
January 16, 2023
Comedy, Fantasy, FilmFilm – Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
A loopy, cartoonish trailer lured me to Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013), a comedic fantasy based…
January 16, 2023
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, FilmFilm: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) is one of those rare films where…
December 26, 2022
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, TelevisionTV: The Good Fight (Season 6)
Can it be possible we’ve seen the last of Christine Baranski’s bravura turn as complex feminist lawyer Diane Lockhart?…
November 16, 2022
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, TelevisionTV: Atlanta (Season 4)
It’s sad to say goodbye to Atlanta, a brilliant show that changed television, but it’s also good to see…
November 13, 2022