The 100 Season 7 Review: “From the Ashes”

In The 100’s last premiere ever, the mystery of the anomaly (and what’s on the other side) deepens, while Clarke and company struggle to keep the peace between warring Sanctum factions. Titled “From the Ashes” certainly appears to be a…

Bojack Horseman Review: A melancholy and fitting end

“Life’s a bitch and then you die, right?” Sometimes our endings aren’t endings. Instead, as is the case in the sixth and final season of the tremendous Bojack Horseman, they’re bookmarks placed in a series of events that mark a…

The Good Place Series Finale Review : Saying goodbye made sweeter due to lessons learned and love gained

For all its abundance of wonderment, larger than life set pieces and reboots that left the members of Team Cockroach scrambling through Jeremy Bearimys to stand grounded in each new version of their afterlives, the thesis of The Good Place…

Big Little Lies Season Two Premiere Review: New faces are introduced in gripping return

To clean the air, let’s first discuss the Streep of it all. We’re only an episode into season two and yes, it looks like they’re setting the story up so that Meryl Streep’s Mary Louise, mother-in-law to Nicole Kidman’s Celeste…

The Magicians 4×5 Review: “Escape From the Happy Place” allows us momentarily to come out of the dark

How much more can you ask for in a television series than the ability to elicit such high strung reactions of joy with the simple words “peaches and plums motherfucker?” Since its inception The Magicians has dared to go bolder…

The Magicians 4×4 Review: “Marry…Kill” allows the characters a moment to grieve

Following last weeks episode where watched as Margo allowed the monster to kill a God for the sake of possibly saving her friend and Quentin learned that his father had passed away when he’d had his memory wiped, “Marry…Kill” isn’t…

Russian Doll Season One Review: A genre bending tale of introspection and buried trauma

*** Beware spoilers ***  Nadia (played superbly by Natasha Lyonne) is a mess. Selfish, cynical and often isolated, she’s refreshingly unlike many female leads on television, defined by their innate likability even when committing abhorrent acts. Nadia never does anything…