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TV Review – NBC’s ‘Found’ is a Familiar Procedural That Should Appeal to the Right Audience

The recently-ended writers’ strike and ongoing actors’ strike has severely decimated the amount of new television programming available for the fall season. That’s especially true for broadcast networks, which once debuted numerous must-see shows before the advent of streaming and on-demand viewing. NBC, which has new seasons of entries from the Law and Order and…

TV Review – ‘Loki’ Season 2 Continues to Be the Best the Marvel Cinematic Universe Has to Offer

The grand finale to Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: Endgame, introduced a rogue version of Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who was able to time-travel away from the events that would lead to his character’s previously-explored fate thanks to some clumsy timeline interference from the well-meaning Avengers. That resulted in the most fascinating and…

TV Review – ‘Physical’ Reaches a New Level in its Terrific Third and Final Season

Over the course of its first two seasons, Apple TV+’s Physical has chronicled the immersion of its protagonist, Sheila (Rose Byrne), in the world of aerobics as she combats a severe eating disorder and a crippling inner voice that constantly tells her how worthless she is. It’s certainly been a journey, one full of intense…

TV Review – ‘Minx’ Moves to Starz for Season 2 and It’s Absolutely Worth Watching

The first season of Minx premiered in March 2022 on HBO Max, depicting the fictional story of the rise of the first erotic magazine for women in the 1970s. The show was off to a great start, earning a second season renewal less than two months later, which was then reversed in December in the…

TV Review – ‘Justified: City Primeval’ is a Welcome Return to the Stylish and Gripping World of Raylan Givens

In an age of constant reboots and revivals, there are some shows that feel entirely natural to restart at any point. Justified enjoyed a successful six-season run on FX from 2010 to 2015, winning Emmys for Margo Martindale and Jeremy Davies and creating a strong fan base. Author Elmore Leonard, who passed away during the…

TV Review – Season 3 of ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Shows There’s More Mystery and Fun Left to Cover

Lightning doesn’t often strike twice, and that can definitely be true when it comes to TV series that begin new arcs each season. Covering a murder within the walls of their apartment building in season one of Only Murders in the Building brought a refreshing comedic adventure for its unlikely trio, and the series managed…

TV Review – ‘Special Ops: Lioness’ is a Rote Terrorism Thriller from Taylor Sheridan

Film and television over the past few decades have ingrained in audiences a picture of the war on terror, a series of seemingly endless conflicts with mostly unknown assailants whose primary goal is the destruction of America and democratic ideals. That’s created a relatively reductive view of nations as a whole and spawned many projects…

TV Review – ‘The Afterparty’ Season 2 Gets More Creative and Captures the Same Zany, Involving Energy

The first season of the Apple TV+ series The Afterparty brought together an extremely talented group of actors for a genre-bending comedy-mystery hybrid, presenting the same events from a different character’s viewpoint, and in a different style, in each episode. Continuing to find that same success is no easy feat, yet season two manages to…

TV Review – ‘Miracle Workers: End Times’ is Another Great Foray into Parody for the TBS Anthology Series

Throughout its first three seasons, Miracle Workers has done a superb job of sending up the way humans have behaved over the course of history and how little progress has truly been made over the centuries. Season one presented a lighthearted view of the “mysterious ways” in which the gods people believe in work with…

TV Review – ‘The Crowded Room’ Has Promise but Doesn’t Know How to Deliver It

The opening scene of the Apple TV+ drama The Crowded Room is meticulously-paced and thrilling. Danny Sullivan (Tom Holland) and Ariana (Sasha Lane) prepare for what feels like a heist before chasing after a man who is their intended target. When Danny freezes and fails to shoot him, Ariana grabs the gun and begins firing….

TV Review – ‘Secret Invasion’ is a Worthwhile if Unextraordinary Extension of the MCU

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has grown to be so large that its television branch encompasses a slew of characters who have appeared in previous films, and it isn’t limited to any one specific point in time. Some, like Hawkeye, have filled in gaps between movies, while The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision, and others…