TV Show Reviews Archives - Page 15 of 54

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020

BILLIONS [Season 5 Premiere Review]: Ready To Do The Job.

Holy. Shit. Yup. That about sums the Season Five debut and the return of Showtime's long-standing blue-chip drama, Billions. When we last saw Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis), Chuck (Paul Giamatti) & Wendy Rhoades (Maggie Siff), Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon), and company, new battle lines were being drawn as Chuck set his eyes on Axe …

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May 3, 2020

HOMELAND [Series Finale Review]: The Spy Who Loved Us.

***SPOILERS*** This is a review of a well-earned series finale, so if I even have to say it, please watch the entire series before proceeding. It has one of my favorite first seasons of this past decade. Carrie & Brody, man. Episode 7: “The Weekend” is all I have to say about that. And, if …

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April 21, 2020April 22, 2020

BETTER CALL SAUL / DISPATCHES FROM ELSEWHERE / TALES FROM THE LOOP [Quick Shots]: Melting the Streets.

You've got plenty of time to catch up with those shows you've been putting off, and thankfully there are still some new seasons of prime television being aired during this lockdown and pandemic. We're going to start a new QUICK SHOTS feature here, giving just a brief overview (and bible scores) for some of the …

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April 14, 2020

NETFLIX [News]: BOOM! Studios Receives A First-Look Deal!

BOOM! Studios, the publisher behind best-selling Eisner Award-winning and fan-beloved comic book franchises, including Lumberjanes, Something is Killing the Children, Once & Future, and Mouse Guard, has signed a two-year TV first look deal with Netflix for live action and animated series. “BOOM! characters are innately special, they’re colorful, diverse and varied and their stories have the power …

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April 8, 2020

THE BIG SHOW SHOW [Review]: Choke or Slam?

🎶Well, well it's a sitcom! Yes it's a new sitcom to binge! Yeah, it's a sitcom! Come on crank it up and turn on all the lights y'all...... 🎶 Ahem. Sorry, couldn’t resist. WWE & Netflix’ partnership has bared its first fruit, and it’s something that The Big Show (Paul Wight as it says on …

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April 7, 2020April 8, 2020

NINJAK VS. THE VALIANT UNIVERSE [Review]: Survivor Series.

Given everything that's occurred since, it feels like an entire lifetime ago when Valiant Comics blew up again, arriving back in mainstream comics in the Summer of 2012 aka "The Summer of Valiant". That spike in popularity led to the announcement in 2016 that they were working on a web-series called Ninjak vs. The Valiant …

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