TV Review: ‘Alien: Earth’ (Season 1, Episode 8)
“The ‘Alien: Earth’ season 1 finale, ‘The Real Monsters,’ is a violent disruption in the franchise canon.”
TV Review: ‘Alien: Earth’ (Season 1, Episodes 6-7)
“Under Hawley’s watchful eye, the episodic progression from “The Fly” to “Emergence” is the most seamless transition of ‘Alien: Earth’ season 1.”
TV Review: ‘Alien: Earth’ (Season 1 – Episodes 3, 4 and 5)
“It appears that Hawley mapped ‘Alien: Earth’ methodically, though the FX on Hulu series often feels worlds apart from writer Dan O’ Bannon’s original source material.”
TV Review: ‘Alien: Earth’ (Season 1, Episodes 1-2)
“‘Alien: Earth’ could become the unofficial Alien Apocrypha. The 46-year-old franchise might have some acidic bite left in it, but it doesn’t leave the same corrosive mark in the human psyche that it once did.”
Netflix TV Review: ‘Ransom Canyon’ Season 1
“‘Ransom Canyon’ season 1 would’ve been much more entertaining with a stronger focus on Staten and Quinn’s perspectives/wants/needs, and how their values influence the people around them and the overall community culture.”
Small Screen Sanctuary: The Rise of Auteur TV
“It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when television’s so-called Second Golden Age began; however, by the 2010s, it was understood that Prestige TV had begun to fill the gap left by the demise of cinema’s mid-budget tier.”
1980s TV Revisited: ‘Moonlighting’ Never Went Downhill Because It Never Set Foot on Earth
“In a lot of ways, ‘Moonlighting’ now seems like a 1990s premium cable show that happened to run on a traditional broadcast network. It carried itself as if it was smarter and wilder and more interesting than anything else on television.”
TV Review: ‘The Veil’
“Despite the contemporary references to ISIS and the ongoing refugee crisis, there’s nothing particularly timely about ‘The Veil,’ and any relevant social commentary is incidental.”
Review: ‘Parish’ Season 1
“At six episodes, ‘Parish’ isn’t quite satisfying. It’s hard to say if it’s too long or not long enough. Maybe it’s the muggy American gothic New Orleans locations that made me err on the side of wishing it were longer.”
That Building Had It Coming: Distance and Disgust in the Anti-Comedy Playground
“In Alverson’s hands, anti-comedy becomes a new kind of gothic — it is the world viewed through a warped, sinister lens; a fresh excavation of the unspeakable through outsized comedic strategies.”
Review: ‘Monsieur Spade’ (Season 1, Episode 1)
“One of first signs of trouble in Monsieur Spade’s first episode is the overall lack of antagonists – the slow burn feels ill-suited for the title character and the genre at large.”