Sense8 and the virtue of hope

Sense8 is and was a beautiful show because it understood that there something we all so desperately wanted to see on our screens: hope. It was a show that, by design, this critic was always going to gravitate towards as a…

Season Review: American Gods is unlike anything else on television

There is quite a lot to wrap your head around when first watching Bryan Fuller’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. Disinterested in telling a purely linear tale as the Starz series weaves around conventional storytelling structure to instead take introduce…

Fargo 3×10 Review: “Somebody to Love”

Somehow, Fargo’s final episode, “Somebody to Love,” manages to be both stupidly excessive and disappointingly anti-climactic. The ending, which pits the show’s two defiant moral figures sitting face to face, is perhaps its one inspired moment, but everything that precedes it…

The 100 Review 4×13 “Praimfaya”

Welcome back to our reviews of The CW’s The 100. To read more coverage, click here.  The 100 has always been, and always will be, about one thing: survival. In all of its iterations, the characters on this often times dour…

Things get real in the Season Four Finale of Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Welcome back to my weekly review and recap of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” To catch up on previous coverage, click here. Despite the common sense scratching at the back of my mind, Brooklyn Nine-Nine has managed (yet again, mind you) to stress this critic…

The 100 Review 4×12 “The Chosen”

Welcome back to our reviews of The CW’s The 100. To read more coverage, click here.  There’s this itch in the back of my mind since watching season four’s penultimate episode of The 100 that we just watched one of the best,…

The 100 Review 4×11 “The Other Side”

Welcome back to our reviews of The CW’s The 100. To read more coverage, click here.  I suppose it’s only fitting that following of the most action packed and thrilling episodes of The 100 that also carried one of the most aggravating…