Category: Television Reviews
REVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 1, Episode 6, “Decommissioned”
The Bad Batch had a particularly strong start, immediately followed by a couple of decent filler episodes. Let’s see if “Decommissioned” can kick things back into high gear. *SPOILERS* “Decommissioned” finds Echo training Omega with a bow and arrow while Cid’s associates make bets on her...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois – Season 1, Episode 8 “Holding the Wrench”
With “Holding the Wrench,” Superman & Lois proves it won’t be going through many growing pains in its first season. This show doesn’t need to find its footing, having mastered how to tell a long-form story with just enough forward momentum to make each episode crucial to the arc. At the ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 1, Episode 5, “Rampage”
*SPOILERS* In “Rampage,” episode 5 of The Bad Batch, our titular weirdos find themselves reduced to accepting mercenary work. Echo tells the others he knows where they can find Cid, an old Jedi informant who may be able to help them. They find Cid’s shop, but the proprietor denies ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois – Season 1, Episode 7 “Man of Steel”
While “Broken Trust” focused mostly on the Kent family drama, “Man of Steel” kicks the season’s plot into high gear with a couple of big reveals that put a new perspective on Captain Luthor’s mission. Jon and Jordan aren’t sidelined completely, though, and Superman & Lois proves on...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 7, Episode 11 “Family Matters Part 2”
“Family Matters Part 2,” the maddeningly uneven follow-up to last week’s cliffhanger, has some wonderful moments and a great thematic structure but dilutes that with awful dialogue, a shockingly bad subplot, and an overcomplication of the Forces and their natures. In the end, it’s a muddle o...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 1, Episode 4, “Cornered”
Following a trio of phenomenal episodes that kicked off a surprisingly emotional series, “Cornered” slows things down in the series’ first real filler episode. It’s been said that you can judge the quality of a show by how it handles its filler, so let’s see how “...
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