The final season of House of Cards brings to mind the opening scene of the show: Frank Underwood mercifully putting down his dog and explaining that there are two kinds of pain: useful and useless. Si…
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The Haunting of Hill House is a Probing Study of Grief, Trauma and Family Ties
The Haunting of Hill House is less of an exercise in horror as it is a psychological study on a family’s psyche and strained relationships. Yes, there are ghosts and plenty of unsettling imagery, but …
Why Good Shows like WestWorld and Mr. Robot Go through Sophomore Slumps
Good shows like Westworld go wrong all the time. Often, they go wrong pretty early, just after a great first season. It happened with True Detective, then with Mr. Robot, and this year, it happened wi…
Maniac Deals with Grief, Hallucinations and Depressed Computers
Netflix’s Maniac, based on a Norwegian series of the same name and directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective Season One), stars Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. It’s ten episodes of trippy, soulful explorat…
Iron Fist Gets Better in Second Season, But is Still Not as Great as it Could Be
Danny Rand is the Iron Fist. If you don’t know it yet, he would have gladly told you so in his previous appearances in Iron Fist Season One and The Defenders. But now Danny Rand is a changed man: more…
Netflix’s Ghoul: Guilt, Tyranny and the Monsters among Men
Quietly released on 24th August, Ghoul is a sharply directed, enigmatically paced political allegory, with a dash of supernatural spices thrown in for good measure. The little ads and marketing you ma…
Winter is Here- With Promised Actions, Cold Burns and a Fandom Unhinged
HBO’s Game of Thrones is a phenomenon- that’s old news. Now, this phenomenon happens without any schedule. August 2017 has truly been one glorious month of our lives. When we could be sitting in traff…
Westworld Review: Not the Next Game of Thrones, and It Doesn’t Need to Be.
Not only is Westworld HBO’s latest hit, it may well be on track to become its biggest hit. That might seem like a tall order, but the show has already pulled off the most successful first season in th…
