More than a decade after it was first rumored as the basis for another prestige-TV look back at the Good War from the same Spielberg-Hanks Military Nostalgia Complex that brought you Band of Brothers and The Pacific, Donald L. Miller’s 2007 Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany has at last come to… Continue reading ‘Masters of the Air’ Series-Premiere Recap: Episode 1
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CBS ‘After Midnight’ Series-Premiere Recap
Photo: Terence Patrick/CBS Comedy Central’s comedy game show @midnight became a fossil the second it went off the air in 2017. This happens to all late-night shows to an extent, but by setting out to chronicle ever-changing internet phenomena, @midnight all but guaranteed its segments referencing platforms like Yahoo Answers and Vine would age poorly.… Continue reading CBS ‘After Midnight’ Series-Premiere Recap
‘Death and Other Details’ Series-Premiere Recap: Eps. 1 & 2
Photo: Michael Desmond/ Hulu/ HULU Not to be dramatic or anything, but cruises are actual hell on earth. Like, Cruise People, what are you doing with your lives? Paying money to have someone send you off to the middle of the ocean — its own separate hellscape of unknown mysteries — on an unnaturally large… Continue reading ‘Death and Other Details’ Series-Premiere Recap: Eps. 1 & 2
The Trust Series-Premiere Recap: Boys Versus Girls
It’s cold and stormy in America, and in this dead of winter, Netflix’s The Trust arrives with slap-happy colors and pristine blue waters. Eleven sunny and hopeful contestants step foot inside a beautiful contemporary mansion somewhere off the Caribbean coastline. In this competition, they are all offered the $250,000 cash prize from the jump. Will they share the money… Continue reading The Trust Series-Premiere Recap: Boys Versus Girls
The Changeling Series-Premiere Recap: Episode 1
The Changeling Episode 1 Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Photo: Apple TV+ Victor LaValle’s 2017 novel The Changeling artfully weaves horror and fantasy to tell a captivating and gruesome story about parenthood. It’s hard to even categorize the original work into a singular genre, making LaKeith Stanfield a fitting lead to guide us… Continue reading The Changeling Series-Premiere Recap: Episode 1
Ahsoka Series-Premiere Recap: Revenge of the Sith
Ahsoka Tano has had one of the biggest character arcs in all of Star Wars, both in-universe and out of it. When she was first introduced in The Clone Wars movie, the previously unnamed Padawan of Anakin Skywalker was essentially a walking death flag. (There was no sign of her in… More » Source link