Category: Television Reviews
REVIEW: Young Justice – Season 4: Phantoms, Episode 18, “Beyond the Grip of the Gods!”
*SPOILERS* “Beyond the Grip of the Gods!” begins Rocket’s story arc with a bang in more ways than one. The episode’s first scenes show us a day in the life of Rocket and her autistic son Amistad. He obsesses over details like the arrangement of his toy cats, he can’t ha...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 8, Episode 11 “Resurrection”
“Resurrection” does a lot for The Flash’s current season, and not just by continuing an excellent run. Black Flame finally comes into its own, a different long-running theme returns (or is… no, I’m going to hold the title pun in my pocket for a bit), and another engaging moral quandary pre...
Read MoreREVIEW: Moon Knight – Season 1, Episode 3 “The Friendly Type”
The fall, the crash, the customary Disney+ abolition of quality have begun in Moon Knight episode 3, “The Friendly Type.” All stakes and consequences are thrust to the wayside in favor of debasing Marc Spector and Khonshu to show the superiority of other characters. This episode is by far the wo...
Read MoreREVIEW: Amphibia Season 3, Episode 13, “Mother of Olms;” “Grime’s Pupil”
*SPOILERS* “Mother of Olms” finds our intrepid heroes struggling down the path to Mother Olm’s chamber. Once they arrive, they’re faced with a giant olm with exotic markings. Mother Olm (Whoopi Goldberg) struggles to remember the details of an ancient prophecy involving the music box that se...
Read MoreREVIEW: Young Justice Season 4: Phantoms Episode 17, “Leviathan Wakes”
*SPOILERS* In “Leviathan Wakes,” the Orm clone is devastated by the knowledge of what he is. In Xebel, Mera’s father, the King, squabbles with Arthur over Arion’s reappearance and the date of Atlantis. Meanwhile, Kaldur and his team press on. Lagann is frustrated at the possi...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 8, Episode 10 “Reckless”
I’m probably starting to sound repetitive, but The Flash is still good, and I’m happy. “Reckless” is another strong episode, returning to perhaps the show’s most important theme and finding yet another way to explore it. It suffers only from an overly convenient plot point and more (though...
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