Category: TV

Is this praxis? It’s good enough for me. This is a labor movement story, through and through, and it’s good at what it’s doing. You feel for the workers’ predicament—it’s torturous—and are naturally led to consider what parallels can be drawn with our lives. This is because the sci-fi premise brings the labor problems to […]

Allow me to be a hater for a moment. This is slop. A “simulacrum of a movie” is how my friend described it. It certainly has all the parts of a movie, but it’s not clear the writer-director actually knew what they’re supposed to be used for. Every scene was so painfully rote you would […]

Better Call Saul is a masterfully executed tale of social order, crime, and ennui. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’re doing yourself a disservice. While the series stands on its own and does not necessarily need to be compared to Breaking Bad (nor does one need to have watched Breaking Bad to enjoy it, though it’s certainly another […]

Picard is an exciting yet ultimately disappointing show. After watching the core trilogy of shows from the 90’s (The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager) and Star Trek movies 1–10, it was extremely refreshing to see a fully modern Star Trek show. The difference is night and day: Picard takes itself quite seriously, and presents […]

Barry is among the best shows on American TV right now, which is a very short list. Season one was amazing, two somehow topped that, and the third is now easily the best. It is not the funniest season—though it is still incredibly funny—and it is certainly not the lightest, but it is extremely gripping. […]

The fourth season of Stranger Things was mostly quite fun and entertaining, but this season was soured for me by some messy mechanics, particularly in the finale. The highs were well done, though more in a slop TV sort of way than in a smart way (a departure from the show’s extremely tight first season), […]