Shogun is a brutal show to watch. It emulates that Game of Thrones style of television that is about showcasing graphic violence, political maneuvering, and overt sexuality. That’s not positive or negative. Just an observation. Beyond that, it does manage...
This review originally ran as a part of our Sundance 2019 coverage. It’s not that we don’t need another movie that highlights the daily barrage of microaggressions a person of color faces in America. On the contrary, some of the...
One of the main uses we’ve found for the art of cinema is to tell stories. In many, broad ways, Jennifer Fox’s The Tale is just another of these. In other ways, though, it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before. It’s a...
Even in the age of “peak TV,” when there are hours on end of noteworthy television every night of the week (and twice on Sundays), there is a particular, once-thriving subgenre that’s become increasingly hard to find: The old-fashioned primetime...
When will I learn not to doubt The Amazing Race? Even when they come up with ideas that sound like trainwrecks, such as the “blind date” season, where half of the teams had never met before the race began (I wrote...
It’s always been true, even if it sounds paradoxical, that the best way to make a story relatable to a large number of people is to make it specific. If the particulars of a narrative are too broad or vague...
“Kinbaku”, the fifth episode of Daredevil’s recently-released second season, will, I’m willing to bet without having seen the rest, prove to be a landmark episode of the series. It draws together so many dangling themes, clarifies a way of approaching...
Since the series began back in 2001, the best seasons of The Amazing Race have always been those with a clear villain. The machinations and ticking clocks that already make the show fun to watch are heightened when unified behind...
“Project Runway season fourteen? Didn’t that end, like, weeks ago?” This is what I assume you’re thinking. But Lifetime extended the run this year to include not just the requisite reunion special but, a week later, a clip show called...
The kind of people who get referred to as “hackers” (that word still sounds corny to me twenty years after Iain Softley’s schlocky movie) are diggers. They spend their time beneath the surface, speaking the language that makes up the...
