Category: Television Reviews
REVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 1 Episode 11, “Devil’s Deal”
*SPOILERS* “Devil’s Deal” opens at a rally on Ryloth. Senator Orn Free Taa attempts to convince the people that they should accept Imperial occupation and that the war is over. However, the unruly crowd chants for Clone Wars hero Cham Syndulla, and Taa allows him to speak. Syndulla...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 7 Episode 16 “P.O.W.”
The Flash is finally on the right track, even if it’s a little too late to make much of an impact. “P.O.W.” is a good episode that should have been better, but it’s let down by what came before it. Season 7 has been so dull and haphazardly constructed that, now that we’re finally getting &...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 5 “Journey Into Mystery”
“Journey Into Mystery” adds insult to last week’s injury, further derailing this once-promising show and acting as a poorly-fitting puzzle piece that’s been jammed in where it doesn’t belong by people who want to end the game and go to bed. Like the similarly truncated The Falcon and the W...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 1, Episode 10, “Common Ground”
*SPOILERS* “Common Ground” opens on Raxus amid a rally. The formerly Separatist planet is being occupied by the Empire, but senator Avi Singh goes off-script at the rally and is arrested. Meanwhile, the Batch – and Hunter, specifically – decide their missions are just too unsafe for ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 7, Episode 15 “Enemy at the Gates”
Well, the good news is that “Enemy at the Gates” is a marked improvement over The Flash’s recent output. The bad news is that the last few episodes have been so bad that there was almost nowhere to go but up. (I say “almost” because I’m learning not to underestimate modern television.) �...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 4 “The Nexus Event”
“The Nexus Event” is one of the most glaring examples of manufactured storytelling I can recall. Plot and character developments are so forced as to be misnomers, with each new point inserted at the whim of the “creatives” because they want the show to be something they know it can’t offic...
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