TV Show Reviews Archives - Page 22 of 54

June 13, 2019

BLACK MIRROR [Season 5 Premiere Review]: Striking Vipers.

Charlie Brooker's Twilight Zone pastiche, Black Mirror, recently premiered its fifth season on Netflix. Unlike prior seasons, the most recent is considerably shorter in length, but boasts greater star power. "Bandersnatch" notwithstanding, this season also plays less gimmicky than prior seasons, much to both its benefit and detriment. "Striking Vipers" stars Anthony Mackie and Yahya …

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June 5, 2019

GOOD OMENS [Review]: Angel & Demon.

Amazon and the BBC brought us the long-awaited delight, Good Omens, this past weekend. Based on the excellent comedy of the same name by Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett (and adapted by the former as a final wish to latter), the miniseries stars David Tennant as Crawly/Crowley -- a demon who didn't so …

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June 4, 2019

DC UNIVERSE’S SWAMP THING [Pilot Review]: A Muddled Montrosity.

A murky beginning to a convoluted character, Swamp Thing may take awhile to germinate. The latest addition to the DC streaming community, this superhero (antihero?) show has definite strengths muddled with a few structural sink holes, making the overall product as clear as the swamp water from which it came... https://youtu.be/xVnHZ5SF1Jg Let us commence with …

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May 28, 2019

SWAMP THING [Official Trailer]: No One Is Safe.

Swamp Thing follows Abby Arcane as she investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe... https://youtu.be/xVnHZ5SF1Jg Based on the DC characters originally written …

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May 20, 2019

GAME OF THRONES [Series Finale]: And So It Goes.

In Steve Oedekerk's Star Wars parody, Thumb Wars, there is a sequence in the Death Star-parody where the Princess Leia stand-in -- having been captured and mostly unseen for the entirety of the film -- appears out of nowhere during the middle of a gunfight, and exclaims to no one "I escaped somehow! Let's go!" …

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May 8, 2019

WATCHMEN [HBO Trailer]: Tick, Tock.

Tick tock. Watchmen debuts this fall on HBO. Watch the new trailer here! https://youtu.be/V2mJV9SJSSQ Created by Damon Lindelof, Watchmen is a modern-day reimagining of Alan Moore's groundbreaking graphic novel about masked vigilantes. Starring Academy Award-winner Regina King, Don Johnson, Jeremy Irons, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Louis Gossett Jr.

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