Zim Has Been Waiting A Very Long Time Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus is a new addition to a series that never got a proper ending. It’s a movie-length version of an average episode, and it’s entirely faithful to the old series, to the point of reusing old jokes. And that’s all great—it’s wonderful to…
Twelve Forever: A Weird Metaphor Show Do I have any business criticizing Twelve Forever as an older male viewer? Perhaps not, but, as a reviewer of movies and television and I have been a twelve-year-old, I do have some perspective on this show. And I actually have a little backstory to go over with this…
Why Was The Powerpuff Girls Popular? Back as the controversy regarding the new remake of The Powerpuff Girls raged, I tried to remember what the original show was like. I’d been reminded by the internet that The Powerpuff Girls had surprisingly adult elements, that it was good in a general sort of way, but that…
The Boys Is A Superversive Slamdunk The Boys, as unimaginative a title as that is, might, finally, be the first really subversive superhero show. Deadpool may have used tropes for comedy and the soon-to-come Watchmen series might be more potent in its metaphors, but as a person who’s been professionally watching superhero movies for the…
Can Anime Episodes Just Get On With It? This is probably going to earn me the ire of the Otakus out there, but here’s my hot take on television anime: it’s kind of boring. And, sure, there’s a lot of trash out there regardless, but I mean the general pacing of anime is infuriating in…
Creeped Out Is A “Genre” Throwback I sadly was not an active television watcher during the heyday of the likes of Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of The Dark, but I know myself well enough to know that I would have loved those series and would have loved Creeped Out to bits if I was…
Miraculous Has Some Miraculous Stuff To Show Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir is Sailor Moon, but for a modern audience, with surprisingly excellent CGI animation. I mean this comparison in almost every sense of the phrase, from the structure to the pacing, to the simple idea of it. Let me break down the…
Spoilers Ahead: Go Watch I Am Mother I Am Mother is a film that seeks to subvert expectations and prey upon the genre savvy bunch that is the modern audience but ultimately can’t stray from its own well-worn niche and standard plot machinations—but I don’t mean that as an inherent negative. And, fair warning, this is…
Legacies Doesn’t Live Up To Its History If I’m going to talk about Legacies, I suppose I must first give some credibility: I’ve seen a fair bit of Vampire Diaries. I’m familiar, to some degree, with the lore. I’ve also seen and read my fair bit of things like Twilight, The Magicians, and Buffy the Vampire…
While I do agree that book adaptations need to be accurate to their source material, the first episode of Good Omens is so accurate that I’m left with a dilemma having finished the book so recently: it’s the same thing again. Like, the same. Dialogue is often book accurate, to the word, as is the…
Danny Phantom: Not A Nostalgia Ghost Danny Phantom is still a good show. My nostalgia for the series was something fierce, even if the finale left much to be desired. I honestly was expecting to be savagely disabused, again, of my childhood memories, but no, Danny Phantom nails its first episode on several layers. Like,…
Back To The View From The Black Mirror My love for Black Mirror is well documented, especially with the way I often reference how so many other sci-fi shows fail to do what this incredible show is doing—but that doesn’t mean there are no duds. That doesn’t mean it’s beyond criticism, and, with the new season…
