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The Boys Continues its Charming, Irreverent Streak in Second Season, Building upon New Themes and Characters
When The Boys premiered last year, it’s irreverent take on superheroes soon gained a strong following. Using superheroes as a filter, the show took on the entertainment industry, celebrity culture and the military industrial complex. In the second season, it…
Amazon Prime’s Utopia is a Conspiracy Thriller Involving a Comic Book (and a Pandemic) That Doesn’t Quite Measure up to Its Source Material
Amazon Prime’s Utopia is, perhaps, the most coincidentally timely series of the Coronavirus pandemic so far. Like the real world, it also features a national pandemic quickly taking lives, scientists testing vaccines and people protesting to have said vaccine released…
Paatal Lok: A Modern Noir Narrative Centered Around India’s Purgatory
Amazon Prime's Paatal Lok has often been compared to Sacred Games, and deservedly so. It's as much a crime thriller as a nuanced and somber study of India's downtrodden hinterlands, illuminating the injustices and hypocrisies in both Delhi and Uttar…
The Best TV Shows of 2019
There were plenty of exciting shows this year, to the extent that it's hard to choose just ten for the best of the year list. There's just too many shows out there, and even if you spent weeks binging, you…
The Boys is a Violent, Subversive Twist on the Superhero Formula
The Boys is a great antithesis of the golden age of superheroes: it dives deep into a world where superheroes are adored by the masses, humanizing characters who were previously more one note in the source material. Most of the…