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Moon Knight Marries Egyptian Mythology with Mental Illness to Great Effect
Moon Knight is a surprisingly divisive show. If you are a fan of Oscar Isaac’s acting and the mind-bending nature of the plot, you probably love the show. But you might also be a disappointed comic book fan who just…
Severance is a Cerebral, Tense Sci-Fi Show with a Sinister Corporate Setting
Severance, created by Dan Erickson, is one of the most disturbing and inventive new tv shows of the year so far. Featuring fantastic performances, chilling cinematography, and stellar direction, it’s part of Apple TV+’s salvo of recent quality content as…
Tokyo Vice is a Promising Crime Show about an American Journalist Investigating the Yakuza in the Nineties
Tokyo Vice is hardly the first western story to tackle the Yakuza, but it does boast a fantastic first episode directed by executive producer Michael Mann, who directed classics such as Heat and Collateral. Adapted from a memoir of Jake…
Russian Doll Explores New Territory in a Second Season That Falls Just Short of its Predecessor’s Heights
One-season tv series seem the way to go these days. Not only is there an influx of limited series right now, but more often than not, long tv shows peter out or get canceled, especially if they are out on…
WeCrashed Tells the Story of the Rise and ‘Fall’ of an Entrepreneur Couple and their Co-Working Company
WeCrashed is a tricky show to like. On one hand, lead actors Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway do well as obnoxious entrepreneurs high on their own supply, but at the same time, the show is also tonally disjointed and it…
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Slows Down in Fourth Season (and Loses Some of its Momentum)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has always stood out because of its premise: a Jewish housewife starting a career as a standup comedian in the fifties. Four seasons in, however, the sheen of that premise has faded, and now we have…
The Dropout Dramatizes the Rise and Fall of an Ambitious Startup Founder Who Conned Her Investors (and Thousands of Patients) for Years
The Dropout is just one of three different shows about startup founders and their demise out right now. It’s also part of a larger trend of dramatization of real stories that are seen in other shows such as Inventing Anna,…
Upload Returns with a Better (and Shorter) Second Season, Expanding its Vision of the Future and the Digital Afterlife
A lot has changed since Upload’s first season premiered in May 2020. The pandemic has become an uneasy fixture of our daily life, and things have become even direr with a new war and the prospects of nuclear armageddon becoming…
Space Force Season Two is a Marginal Improvement, But it’s Still Not Enough to Save the Show
Space Force is hardly the first Greg Daniels-created sitcom to have to drastically readjust its course after a tumultuous first season. Both the Office and Parks and Recreation had to face this obstacle, and their success with the task gives…
How I Met Your Father Gets Off to a Rocky Start Before Salvaging Itself in First Season
Everyone who watched How I Met Your Mother will know what it feels to spend nine seasons building up to the introduction of a character only to kill her off unceremoniously. Why break up everyone's favorite couple on the show…
