TV – Kolchak: The Night Stalker
It took me a long time to work my way through Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and it may, in fact, be overly generous to say that I truly watched it. But …
It took me a long time to work my way through Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and it may, in fact, be overly generous to say that I truly watched it. But …
In the mid-2010s – “the Teens,” the “Tennies,” are we calling that decade anything yet? – I went through a heavy post-Avengers comics kick, and Ms. Marvel was one of …
It’s been twenty years since The Wire debuted, and while its legacy may be eclipsed by more popular shows from its era – Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Sopranos …
I wouldn’t say I whole-heartedly enjoyed Netflix’s Cracow Monsters, a supernatural horror series from Poland, but it’s one of those visually striking and novel European shows that manages to slather …
Good television criticism makes me want to up my game; the best television criticism makes me want to hang it up entirely. Emily Nussbaum’s first-rate I Like to Watch: Arguing …
It’s perhaps indicative of how low my emotional investment is in the X-Men franchise that I started X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) without realizing I’d completely skipped X-Men: Apocalypse. I suppose …
Recently—well, over the course of several months—I engaged in an epic, threaded rewatch of Joss Whedon’s signature creations, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996–2003) and Angel (1999–2004). These were influential shows …
There’s something comforting about the throwback rhythms of iZombie, a show that lives quite pleasantly in the transitional zone between old-school episodic TV and the more novelistic, long-form television narrative …
It took some convincing for me to watch the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, but after plying me with hilarious YouTube videos, Jenn eventually wooed me into watching this one. Now I …
I remember reading Alan Sepinwall’s NYPD Blue episode-by-episode reviews back when the Internet was young. He’s since gone on to a prominent full-time career as a TV critic, and his …
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One of the best graphic novels I’ve read since getting back into comics was Cairo, a Middle Eastern fantasy mixing a thrilling adventure plot with Buffy-like created family and Middle …
And now to the tonal disaster that is Jennifer’s Body (2009), a coming-of-age horror kludge that’s part dark comedy, part gross-out violence-fest, and part Diablo Cody over-cleverness. The film centers …
After years away from the format, I feel like an inexpert judge of comic books, but lately I’ve been dipping into some of the stuff on Jenn’s shelf and I’ve …
It looks like Dollhouse has been renewed for a second, 13-episode season. Some will disagree with me, but I think it’s good news! After watching the pilot, I came away disappointed …
Night Watch (2004), a dark urban fantasy from Russia, has been half on my radar for a while now, and I finally caught up with it on Netflix. It’s about …