Comedy, Drama, Television
TV: Dead to Me (Season 3)
Who needs protagonists with the moral high ground? Not Dead to Me, a winning dark comedy that turned its…
January 28, 2023-
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Comedy, TelevisionTV: Freaks and Geeks
Sometimes when you miss the moment, it’s too late to go back. I thought that might be the case…
December 12, 2022 -
Comics, TelevisionTV: Hawkeye
Two versions of me watched Hawkeye. One was the version who had faithfully followed the MCU with geeky enthusiasm…
December 26, 2021 -
TelevisionTV: Dead to Me (Season 2)
Dead to Me gave itself a tough act to follow after a near-perfect debut year, and does so admirably…
December 9, 2020 -
FilmFilm: A Simple Favor
A Simple Favor (2018) boasts significant assets, and opens strongly with a nicely built atmosphere of quirky intrigue, but…
October 1, 2019 -
TelevisionTV: Bloodline (Season 3)
Reaching the end of Bloodline confirmed an earlier guess for me: this show probably would have been better off…
June 5, 2019 -
TelevisionTV: Dead to Me (Season 1)
Season one of Dead to Me couldn’t be more perfectly timed. It’s a beautiful, clockwork mystery about remarkable women…
May 18, 2019 -
TelevisionTV: Bloodline (Season 2)
The first season of Bloodline was such a near-perfect mystery slow-burn that, upon its conclusion, I questioned whether it…
July 16, 2017 -
Drama, Mystery, TelevisionTV: Bloodline (Season 1)
Netflix’s hot streak continues with Bloodline, a masterful slow boil that blends mystery and family drama in a distinctive…
June 22, 2015