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…
First Aired June 9th, 2019 Strand (played by Colman Domingo) leaves a recorded message on Althea’s (played by Maggie Grace) camera before heading off to meet Daniel (played by Ruben Blades) who greets him at gunpoint. Strand tries to negotiate for a plane from the small fleet Daniel ‘acquired’ but Daniel is wary about trusting…
Jimmy Neutron Is Such A Strange Show My memories of Jimmy Neutron are false. I remember this show being a silly thing that took a similar premise to Dexter’s Lab and made it into something a lot more irreverent and light-hearted. A pleasant series with pretty good meme material all things considered. But, wow, going…
First Aired June 2nd, 2019 Two boys Max (played by Ethan Seuss) and Dylan (played by Cooper Dodson) are out hunting are confronted by a walker but saved when a small plane crashes nearby. They observe the crash site and when more walkers nearly overrun them, they’re saved by Alicia (played by Alycia Debnam-Carey). Max…
Bandersnatch: Something Old Made New Bandersnatch deserves a lot of slack, simply because it’s a technical achievement on another level and the fact it can function through a television interface is something that might become a game-changer. I’m genuinely excited to see what other creators are going to do with this technique. What sort of creations…
Ben 10 Is A Fine Show But Not That Great Sadly, the old shows cannot all be winners: the first episode of Ben 10, while not terrible or bad by any stretch, was not the masterpiece of fun sci-fi that my nostalgia goggles showed me whenever I thought back. It really had such a good…
The Handmaid’s Tale Shatters You, Sorry I’m not sure I can recommend The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s amazing, fantastic, brilliantly acted, scripted, and is one of the best shows I have seen in maybe decades. Gut churning and yet riveting, this show is—no hyperbole—a masterpiece of tension. However, it’s also nearly impossible to sit through an episode….
Osmosis Started Out Really Strong, Too Osmosis makes me look back more fondly on 3% because while that was also a foreign show that used a weird dubbing method over real lips, it was at least an interesting story that explored the depths of its premise. Osmosis seems to have forgotten that its core scientific…
What’s A Cartoon Has A Shaky Definition Time to divide the readers of this article: is a movie that’s almost entirely CGI just a cartoon with real-life actors in the middle of it? I realize the knee-jerk reaction to that idea is “no, surely not,” but, well, let’s explore this out a bit, shall we?…
Now that Game of Thrones Season 8 is here, let’s take a look at a glimpse of what it takes to pull off these epic scenes. HBO has released several behind the scenes micro-docs that take us behind the scenes with the crew who bring it all together. We’ve rounded them up for you here….
