Horror, Television
TV: Signs (Seasons 1 & 2)
If there’s one thing the past several years of binging international drama has proven to me, it’s that Twin…
February 13, 2021-
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Film, HorrorFilm: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Has there been a film with a more complicated critical reception than David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with…
October 25, 2020 -
TelevisionTV: The Killing (Seasons 1-4)
I watch enough bloody television these days that I’ve started to form an internal taxonomy for my reactions to…
October 3, 2020 -
FilmFilm: An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
I know why I started watching An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2019): Aubrey Plaza, a performer with such…
July 4, 2020 -
Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: Tales from the Loop
The Amazon Prime series Tales from the Loop intrigued me with its unusual source material: it’s inspired by the…
May 9, 2020 -
TelevisionTV: The Forest (Season 1)
The only interesting element of the French police procedural The Forest is that it keeps you guessing, for an…
August 12, 2018 -
Fantasy, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: Twin Peaks: The Return
In an increasingly insane world, the bar for artistic mindfuckery continues to rise. Indeed, we’ve reached the point where…
September 9, 2017 -
Fantasy, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: Fortitude (Season 2)
The first season of Fortitude was a glorious achievement in genre television, so it’s unsurprising that its sequel year…
April 24, 2017 -
Fantasy, TelevisionTV: The Returned
Slow-building supernatural mysteries can be a double-edged sword: explain too little and there’s no payoff, explain too much and…
March 27, 2017 -
Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: The Kettering Incident (Season 1)
It’s a good time to be alive if you’re a fan of atmospheric chillers where geography is character. The…
January 24, 2017 -
TelevisionTV: Fortitude (Season 1)
Dark, brilliant mysteries emerge from Scandinavia and the U.K. on a regular basis these days, so it only makes…
October 13, 2016 -
Science Fiction, Television, ThrillerTV: Mr. Robot (Season 1)
The new USA series Mr. Robot bears surface similarities to a number of other shows, but in the end it’s…
September 8, 2015 -
Fantasy, FictionNovel: Strange Country by Deborah Coates
Deborah Coates’ rural fantasy trilogy comes to a conclusion in Strange Country (2014), another quietly entertaining blend of dark…
August 25, 2014 -
Non-Fiction, TelevisionNon-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…
March 25, 2014 -
Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, TelevisionTV: True Detective (Season 1)
I suspect it’s possible to enjoy True Detective solely on the basis of its surface mystery, but damn, there’s…
March 10, 2014