Tag: TV Shows
Star Wars Releases First Look at Visions
On Saturday, July the 3rd, Disney and Lucasfilm released a sneak peek at Visions, the anime Star Wars series Kathleen Kenedy revealed at investor day 2020. We also learned the names of season 1’s episodes and what animation studios would make them. Studio Colorido, creators of the Netflix anim...
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 MoreAvatar: The Last Airbender Creators Discuss Series’ Flaws, Avatar Studios Progress
Braving the Elements is an all-things-Avatar podcast for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra co-hosted by Dante Basco (the voice of Zuko in Avatar and General Iroh in Korra) and Janet Varney (the voice of Korra). In this past Tuesday’s episode, Basco interviewed series creat...
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...
Read MoreDo We Need The Many Saints of Newark?
The Many Saints of Newark is coming at a serendipitous time for me. From late April into early May of this year, I finally watched The Sopranos. (I’m not sure how an Italian from Staten Island avoided it for so long, but here we are.) It was one of those rare instances where mountains of … ...
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