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