It’s nearly impossible to discuss Olivia Wilde’s directorial feature debut Booksmart without slipping into hyperbole. Bursting with confidence and personality, it avoids nearly all of the pitfalls of …
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth Season 3 Finale
That’s more like it. Last week, we saw a marked improvement in The Last Man on Earth following a series of uninspired episodes with state plots. For this week’s season finale, the show has…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×16): “The Big Day”
After painting itself into a corner over the second half of the season, The Last Man on Earth finally returns to a semblance of its former quality with “The Big Day”, and all the show had …
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×15): “Name 20 Picnics…Now!”
Over the past few episodes, The Last Man on Earth has taken a turn for the worse. The scripts have been mediocre or outright bad due to questionable plot choices that have turned the show’s vivi…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×14): “Point Person Knows Best”
This week’s episode of The Last Man on Earth is an improvement over the pointless “Find This Thing We Need To”, but only in that it deserves the right to exist as a complete episode …
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×13): “Find This Thing We Need To”
The worst episode of The Last Man on Earth since its nadir in the middle of the first season isn’t a result of lame humor or cliched writing, but from the epic pointlessness of the whole affair.…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×12): “Hair of the Dog”
This week’s episode of The Last Man on Earth has two solid plots, but neither has a satisfactory ending. It feels like another instance of the show having an episode that does not stand on its o…