Category: Television Reviews
REVIEW: The Acolyte – Season 1, Episode 3, “Destiny”
***SPOILERS*** “Destiny” opens on Mae and Osha’s homeworld of Brendok 16 years ago. They are the only children in a coven of witches led by Mother Aniseya (Jodie Turner-Smith), their actual mother. But she isn’t their only mother; Mother Koril worries about Osha’s lack of discipline and te...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Acolyte – Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2, “Lost/Found” and “Revenge/Justice”
Well, The Acolyte is finally here. Star Wars fans have been anticipating this series for all the wrong reasons, from its showrunner’s dubious past working with Harvey Weinstein to bad PR to downright confusing dialogue in the trailers. Despite Lucasfilm’s best(?) efforts, I don’t think anyon...
Read MoreREVIEW: Tales of the Empire Season 1 (2024)
I loved Tales of the Jedi. More accurately, I loved half of it, the Dooku half, and I enjoyed the Ahsoka half. The animation style is to die for, and I liked learning more about an under-utilized character. In short, that’s why the Count Dooku episodes were so much more compelling. I was all in w...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 3, Episodes 14 and 15, “Flash Strike” and “The Calvary Has Arrived”
It has been an incredible season of The Bad Batch this year, making it equally exciting and sad to see the show go. This is my favorite season of The Bad Batch, a show that has gradually gotten better and more laser-focused on its overarching story. To think we went from a relatively filler-y seas...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 3, Episode 13, “Into the Breach”
*SPOILERS* In “Into the Breach,” Rampart and the Batch wait for Echo on a strange planet. Meanwhile, Omega gets acclimated to her new roommates and asks them a few strategic questions. Dr. Sculder recommends that Omega be separated from the other “specimens,” but Emerie explains that she’s...
Read MoreREVIEW: Amazon’s Fallout Season 1
Developed by Interplay Productions way back in 1997, the original Fallout was a role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world decades after a nuclear war between the US and China, with a retro-futuristic aesthetic and turn-based combat. The player begins as a “Vault Dweller” who must venture...
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