
TV: The Rig (Season 1)
Given the current glut of quality content in the world, one shouldn’t go out of their way for The…
May 28, 2023Given the current glut of quality content in the world, one shouldn’t go out of their way for The…
May 28, 2023Watching The Patient, it was impossible not to speculate about how it might end. My early instinct was that…
May 21, 2023It’s good to see Keri Russell parlaying her success on The Americans into impressive new roles, and Netflix’s The…
May 14, 2023Road-rage thriller, dark comedy, empathetic drama, a tale of rival antiheroes—Netflix’s Beef ticks multiple boxes. While it doesn’t always…
May 11, 2023Nearly ten years after Harper comes The Drowning Pool (1975). This sequel once again banks on Paul Newman’s good…
April 30, 2023Technicolor nihilism, anyone? Harper (1966) is so bright and shiny, its grim trajectory and potently cynical characters come as…
April 24, 2023While generally well done, Hightown is a frustrating contraption, a mix of Nordic noir and throwback cable-network sleaze that…
April 23, 2023Compared to many, I’ve been an infrequent passenger on the Nicholas Cage train, which should explain my initial indifference…
April 17, 2023Trailers are usually lost on me—I try to avoid them, since so many telegraph the entire plot—but some previews…
April 1, 2023I played the PS4 game The Last of Us just long enough to come to two conclusions: one, that…
April 1, 2023An odd takeaway from season one of The Peripheral: while recognizably based on a William Gibson novel, it doesn’t…
March 21, 2023While my interest World War II has cooled in recent years, I’m still intrigued by the era, especially when…
February 20, 2023We can add a new motivation to my list for figuring out what to watch next: will the streaming…
February 11, 2023Whenever a series escalates into a truly obsessive binge for me, I start questioning whether it’s actually a great…
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