A review of “Journey Into Mystery,” the penultimate Loki Season One episode on Disney+, coming up just as soon as I paper cut a giant cloud to death… Journey Into Mystery was the title of the first Marvel comic to feature either Thor or Loki. It began as an anthology …
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A review of this week’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, “The Whole World Is Watching,” coming up just as soon as I pull an El Chapo… Two-thirds of the way through its run, Falcon and the Winter Soldier remains competent and little more. It’s a show in which lots …
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Westworld has spent two seasons showing us robots trying to break free of their human masters. The big reveal of Season Three is that humanity is hardly any freer — an irony at the heart of this week’s episode (“Genre”). In order to send our world crashing down, Dolores’ secret …
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A review of this week’s The Good Place, “The Funeral to End All Funerals,” coming up just as soon as I reboot Ally McBeal… “The Funeral to End All Funerals” is a promising episode in terms of the remainder of the season, but also a bit of a frustrating one …
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A review of this week’s Watchmen, “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own,” coming up just as soon as I give you some passive-aggressive exposition… “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own” is arguably the most straightforward of Watchmen‘s four installments so far. Considering that the …
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A review of this week’s The Good Place, “A Girl From Arizona, Part Two,” coming up just as soon as I leave H&M wearing more underpants than I had on when I came in… In my review of last week’s episode, I noted that it must have begun life as …
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A review of “Morta di Fame,” this week’s The Deuce, coming up just as soon as I run for town whore… Late in “Morta di Fame,” Lori vents to her agent Kiki about the conditions of her recent porn shoots. “This thing doesn’t last forever,” Kiki warns her. “Not for …
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The Deuce is back for a third and final season, and we’ve got a review of the premiere, “The Camera Loves You,” coming up just as soon as I tell you to see Repo Man… Early in “The Camera Loves You,” Vince and Abby are walking home along the Deuce …
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No one throws a dinner party quite like Succession. While one corporate meeting this season has already featured a descent into madness, this week’s episode, “Tern Haven,” sees the Roys completely buckle under pressure (including questions about what books they’ve read recently). The family has decamped for a meeting at …
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A review of “The Tattler,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I perform “Stop or My Mom Will Ska,” the one song by my ska band, Skalvester Skallone… “The Tattler” starts off in a familiar Andy Samberg key: Nineties clothes and music and a grown man …
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