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….
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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…
In Its Third Season, Ozark Threatens to Become a Good Show
Ozark, a show that started off as a poor man’s Breaking Bad with worse acting and a lot worse writing, has a lot of angles and plot pivots to play in Season Three. None get more mileage than the modern marital fears of Boomers/ Gen X. I include the label because I was surprised how many…
Westworld Should Accept Its Stupidity
“After Season 2, I too wish Westworld was a completely different show.” – Twitter Season One of Westworld was intriguing, fun, and mysterious. Going in with only a scant blueprint of the original 70’s Michael Crichton movie on which it was based, it had several advantages. Anthony Hopkins’ great performance, mixed with a great character…
Why is HBO’s ‘The Outsider’ such a big hit?
Murder mystery is so hot right now. Seriously, it’s the one sustainable resource on television. Netflix is filled with an endless assortment of documentaries and shows on it, and British television has made a cottage industry out of it. With that in mind, it should be no shock that the HBO adaptation of the recent…
‘Stranger Things 3’ Is Your Summer TV Fling
I attempted writing reviews for Stranger Things earlier, for whatever reason I lost interest. It’s TV comfort food. Critically beyond reproach, it’s a bonus that it does so many things well. A brief for the unconverted, it is a throwback to the child adventure era of Steven Spielberg’s 1980 Amblin-produced films (E.T., The Goonies, Gremlins,…
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