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 …
TV: Ms. Marvel (Season 1)
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 …
Rewatching The Wire
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 …
TV: Cracow Monsters (Season 1)
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 …
Non-Fiction: I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
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 …
Film: X-Men: Dark Phoenix
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 …
The Great Buffy-Angel Rewatch
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 …
TV: iZombie (Season 3)
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 …
TV: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Season 1)
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 …
Non-Fiction: The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Sepinwall
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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Novel: Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
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 …
Film: Jennifer’s Body
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 …
Fray, X-Men, Dollhouse
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 …
Further Thoughts on Dollhouse
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 …
Film: Night Watch
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 …