A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Dedicado a Max,” coming up just as soon as I make my own cell phone charger… “It seems to me that you are at a crossroads.” —Gus Throughout the run of Better Call Saul, Kim Wexler and Mike Ehrmantraut have represented two …
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A review of “Debbie,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I have 16 copies of Blind Melon’s first album… “The Jimmy Jab Games II” and “Debbie” aren’t exactly a two-parter, but this one picks up where last week’s installment left off: with the squad trying to …
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine returned for its seventh season with a two-part premiere. A review of “Manhunter” and “Captain Kim” coming up just as soon as I give you a foot five… Every previous season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine ended with the status of Jake and/or Holt within the squad very much up …
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We’re roughly halfway through His Dark Materials’ first season now. Time for some serious voice-over exposition, don’t you think? “Witches hear the immortal whispers of those who pass between the worlds,” intones an unidentified voice at the start of the fantasy epic’s latest episode (“The Lost Boy”). “They speak of …
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A review of this week’s Watchmen, “An Almost Religious Awe,” coming up just as soon as I’m strapped to a chair in an abandoned JC Penney… Dr. Manhattan, I presume? It’s easy to understand why some fans of the Watchmen comic were skeptical of this show’s existence and its structure …
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Who watches the Watchmen? We do! Tonight, HBO debuted Damon Lindelof’s adaptation (or sequel, remix, whatever) of the legendary comic book by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I reviewed the show and interviewed Lindelof, and now it’s time to discuss the series premiere, “It’s Summer And We’re Running Out of …
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A review of the two-part Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season Six finale, “Sicko” and “The Suicide Squad,” coming up just as soon as I send you an eye-rolling gif from The Durrells in Corfu… Nine-Nine has a tradition of ending its seasons with cliffhangers that upend the series’ status quo. Season One …
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Early in her Saturday Night Live monologue, host Emma Stone asks to check the sound levels on the microphones. “BTS is here!” she casually notes, and the crowd erupts into furious screams of excitement. That was both a cheap way to generate heat but also a not-so-subtle message to the …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “The Honeypot,” coming up just as soon as I wear a single Windsor knot… If the Nine-Nine cast weren’t already overpopulated, Chelsea Peretti’s departure might have been an opportunity to bring in a new regular civilian aide character to shake up some of …
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Thrills and chills! Twists and turns! Mind-warping philosophical rants, past occult conspiracies, and the highly stylized dialogue of a million film noirs from another dimension! These are the things that True Detective built its reputation on, the things that made its groundbreaking first season a prestige-TV alternative. And in this …
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