Star Trek: Discovery 1×03 Review: “Context is for Kings”

Star Trek: Discovery may have hit it out of the park on its previous two episodes, but it also burned the park down. So the stakes are no less high in the episode Context is for Kings, where the series…

The Handmaid’s Tale 1×10 Review: Night

Harvey Milk was right when he said, “You gotta give ’em hope.” In a world where The Handmaid’s Tale seems more possible than ever, you can hardly blame the series for granting its audience mercies that the source material would…

The Handmaid’s Tale 1×9 Review: The Bridge

It’s good that The Handmaid’s Tale is going back to basics, even if it stumbles a bit yet again in the episode The Bridge. The show has shifted its gaze back to Offred, who is continuing her commitment to fight…

The Handmaid’s Tale 1×8 Review: Jezebels

The Handmaid’s Tale seems to flounder when it takes its eyes off its female leads. When the series shifted gears and explored Serena Joy’s history, it was a fascinating look at how women can be complicit in the brutalization of…

The Handmaid’s Tale 1×7 review: The Other Side

The Handmaid’s Tale episode The Other Side has everything we’re supposed to want in a show about an all too plausible dystopia. There’s a slow build from a period of relative calm to a whole lot of action, tragedy, and…

The Flash 3×23 Review “Finish Line”

Welcome back to the weekly recaps of The Flash. To read previous coverage, go here. Season three of The Flash was not great. It was so not great that I wasn’t keeping up with the show on a week to week basis…

The Handmaid’s Tale 1×6 Review: A Woman’s Place

When someone remarks, “I guess you get used to things being one way,” in The Handmaid’s Tale episode A Woman’s Place, it feels like a warning. True, the whole series serves as a kind of cautionary tale of what we…