True Detective Season 1 Blu-ray review
The True Detective Blu-ray set comes out today and with it comes plenty of questions about just how well put together this set is. While we all know what we’re getting when it comes to the quality of...
View ArticleReview: True Detective Season Two, “The Western Book of the Dead”
“How compromised are you?” There was nothing about the first episode of True Detective season two that signaled that things were “off to a bang.” If anything it was just the opposite, in fact. This...
View ArticleReview: True Detective Season Two, “Night Finds You”
“Every thing is just papier-mâché.” After a slow-burning first episode, True Detective Season Two ratchets up the stakes in episode 2. With our four leads now firmly established, this episode was able...
View ArticleReview: True Detective Season Two, “Maybe Tomorrow”
“Well, I got shot. That’s something.” The third episode of True Detective season two didn’t waste time getting to the bottom of the “is Ray dead?” mystery. What it did do was return us to the scowling,...
View ArticleReview: True Detective Season Two, “Down Will Come.”
“What’s a hand usually out for?” Let’s get this out of the way– the crow men are once again absent from True Detective. Sunday’s episode “Down Will Come,” doesn’t feature any major revelations in the...
View ArticleReview: True Detective Season Two, “Other Lives”
“Now We’re Following Birds.” Last night’s episode of True Detective brought us into the second half of season two, but the formula hasn’t changed all that much from earlier episodes. Some things are...
View ArticleReview: True Detective Season Two, “A Church in Ruins”
“I sold my soul for nothing.” More so than anything else, Ray’s delivery of this line cast a long shadow over a remarkably moody, incredibly atmospheric, and tension-filled episode that finally begins...
View ArticleThree Things You Missed in This Week’s True Detective
This week’s episode of True Detective picked up several narrative threads that for a while felt as though they had been ditched with the same reverence and ceremony as Ani’s e-cig. A lot of shows these...
View ArticleReview: True Detective Season Two, “Black Maps and Motel Rooms”
“I’m just trying to be a good man.” True Detective Season Two continues to up the ante with another remarkably tense episode that finally lays all of Pizzolatto’s dramatic chips on the table. The new...
View ArticleReview: True Detective Season Two, “Omega Station”
“How Did You Meet Caspere?” The above quote has haunted the entire season of True Detective’s second season, and the final episode “Omega Station,” was not different. Ben Caspere, the man whose grizzly...
View ArticleThe Handmaid’s Tale: Season 2, episode 10 recap: ‘The Last Ceremony’
Just when we thought The Handmaid’s Tale couldn’t get more heart-breaking–it did. As we near the end of the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale, things are getting gloomier, freakier, and more...
View ArticleWrong Man episode 3 recap: ‘Curtis Flowers: Trial and Error’
Wrong Man episode 3 examines the case of Curtis Flowers — accused of a 1996 murder spree in Winona, Mississippi. He was tried 6 times for the murders. Did he do it? When Bertha Tardy and three of her...
View ArticleGoliath season 2, episode 7 recap: ‘Diablo Verde’
In the sixth episode of Goliath‘s second season both witness-in-waiting Roman and his family and the 16-year-old he helped frame for murder, Julio, were killed. Meanwhile, Billy is still in Mexico and...
View ArticleGoliath season 2, episode 8 recap: ‘Tongue Tied’
We’ve reached the second season finale of Amazon Prime’s Goliath! Billy is back home, having dodged disaster in Mexico in the previous episode. And that means only one thing — he and Gabriel are about...
View ArticlePreacher season 3, episode 1 recap: ‘Angelville’
Preacher season 3 is finally here and Jesse is doing whatever he can to bring his beloved Tulip back from the dead. However, this means making a deal with the devil — or the next closest thing with his...
View ArticlePose season 1, episode 4 recap: ‘The Fever’
This week’s Pose was slow yet emotional in its delivery as the HIV/AIDs epidemic comes front and center of this episode. Pose is a reminder of how far we’ve come and also how far we’ve yet to go when...
View ArticleGoliath season 2 review: A conspiracy around a murder expands Goliath’s universe
When it debuted in October 2016, Amazon Prime’s Goliath was a combination of old and new. A lawyer show created by David E. Kelley, who was responsible for earlier lawyer shows like L.A. Law, Ally...
View ArticleWrong Man episode 4 recap: ‘Curtis Flowers: Death Again’
Episode 4 of Starz’ Wrong Man digs deeper into the Curtis Flowers case, finding an ample amount of reasonable doubt and alternate suspects. Near the beginning of Wrong Man’s 3rd episode, it was easier...
View ArticleSuccession season 1, episode 4 recap: ‘Sad Sack Wasp Trap’
Episode 4 of HBO’s Sucession has a quirky title, but it fits perfectly for our quirky clan of sociopaths, the Roys. Can they behave at a charity gala? A normal person would wonder: What exactly is a...
View ArticleYellowstone season 1, episodes 1 and 2 recap: “Daybreak” and “Kill the...
Yellowstone arrives on the new Paramount Network to fanfare and high expectations. This prestige show has a stellar cast led by Oscar-winner Kevin Costner, who’s returning to the genre he’s most...
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