This Netflix series tells the story of the well-regarded creator’s problems with a late-breaking story structure. Created by Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Hush, Gerald’s Game, Ouija: Origin of Evil, The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep) I remember the moment I knew Midnight Mass hit its peak. It is at the end of Proverbs, episode three. In…
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‘You’ Confidently Strides Into Its Third Season
Read The Excellent Season One Review! Every storytelling mark You gracefully hits in its season three premiere is so clear and unfussy. This is a show made by an experienced and diverse group of people who have experience in other shows about serial killers (Think if Dexter had a Mindhunter Bookclub with Prodigal Son and…
In Episode II, ‘Squid Game’ Elevates its Premise Cementing Itself as an Unlikely Character Drama.
Not since HBO’s The Leftovers has a show so successfully managed to cloak and dagger its audience by revealing its high concept premise as a character drama. At the conclusion of episode one, you would not believe there would be any chance of escape. Revisiting this premise, audiences haven’t been given one before. In every…
Think It’s Too Late To Get Into Squid Game? It Has Been Waiting For You.
Who would’ve thought 1 1/2 years into the pandemic we’d get another pandemic sized Netflix hit? Netflix sure hoped so. The most interesting thing so far about Squid Game is that it writes its premise from a character rather than plot approach. This alone lifts it above its predecessors and inspirations. Battle Royale chiefly among…
Dave Chappelle Goes For Broke With The Anti-Woke Special ‘The Closer’
Sticks and Stones is the funniest stand-up I’ve seen. A comedian working at the top of his craft while pretending to not care what other people think. It felt like he was discovering along with the audience. It’s the best standup he will ever do. In ‘The Closer’ he proves it by dropping the act….
With ‘The Mandalorian’ Season Two, Star Wars Finally Climbs Out of the Sarlacc Pit
Written and Directed By: Jon Favreau Music By: Ludwig Goransson Produced By: Kathleen Kennedy and Colin Wilson [Warning Mild Spoilers Ahead] Despite watching the first season as soon as it concluded a year ago, I did not like The Mandalorian and found it overhyped. The idea of making a live action Star Wars TV series…
Quibi Obituary
I would have liked to see what amateurs could have done with this format, the sort of YouTubers who put YouTube on the map before it got corporatized. Quibi is coming from the opposite direction. Introducing amateurs would have left it so much to gain. Its an exemplary reason why it failed because it…
‘Raised by Wolves’ Picks up Steam as Paradise is Lost
Praise Sol as the show penetrates the mainstream! Joined by Season Two renewal news and an energizing focus on Fall TV, the show is developing and merging its own fandom on Reddit. I came into this week’s episode of Raised By Wolves with the most energy and excitement yet. Episode 5’s flashback of Campion the creator…
Ridley Scott Crystalizes his best ideas in the TNT-bred HBO Max Drama ‘Raised By Wolves’
Upon first glance, I thought the show were a modern retelling of the fairytale The 3 Little Piggies… Not inaccurate, but oversimplified. The best ideas are. Raised by Wolves manages to gather all the ideas creator/ director Ridley Scott has developed through his entire career. Alien, Blade Runner, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Gladiator, American Gangster,…
‘Normal People’ is Millennial Soup
Emotions are messy. Are they enough to serve as the only compelling roadblock on a satisfying narrative path? Normal People thinks so. It’s a story that could not be told with the same sincerity even 12 years ago. Now it almost seems rote. Although Normal People based on the novel of the same name does…
Is Amazon Prime’s ZeroZeroZero a Front for a Money Laundering Scheme?
Unlike Ozark, there is no such humor found in ZeroZeroZero. Aside from a brief respite in Episode 7; a high point filled with unexpected romance and peak relaxation performances, director and creator Stefano Sollima (Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado) hardly concerns himself or his two co-directors with good humour or much laughter. It’s an…
Netflix’s “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” Is Here to Distract You From Your Fixation on the Coronavirus
It’s unbelievable, fascinating, suspect, and ripe for immediate consumption in the face of a pandemic and raises questions about public taste and convictions that yet have an answer. By: William Hume It is easy to see what makes Netflix’s new documentary series so compelling: during this pandemic we are currently suffering, the show offers an…
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