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Amazon’s Invincible Will Hook You
Amazon's Invincible borrows some of the best qualities of The Boys while mixing in delightfully fresh takes on all your favorite superhero tropes, upending the genre and producing a welcome change of pace.
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The Star Trek Discovery Season 4 Teaser Headlines First Contact Day
The 2021 edition of First Contact Day featured a lot of compelling Trek content, including a tantalizing Star Trek Discovery season 4 teaser. Black alert!
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The Snowpiercer Season 2 Finale Manages to Hold the Rails
Snowpiercer's season 2 finale picks right up from where the excellent episode 8 left us and kicks off a sprint to the end. It's a strong finish for this much-maligned TV drama and sets up some intriguing possibilities for a third season.
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The Salty Pod – Episode 14
In this episode of The Salty Pod, J & M discuss The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (episodes 1 & 2).
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Snowpiercer Finally Delivers – Recapping The Eternal Engineer
The latest chapter of Snowpiercer brings a season-long power struggle to its conclusion. The Wilford legend proves too much for Layton and he and his allies are on the ropes. It all plays out during a surprisingly compelling episode, easily one of the TV drama's best yet.
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Review – Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso is joyous. It’s a show that makes you happy—but not in a saccharine, overly sentimental way. It shows us a character who knows himself. It shows us what believing in ourselves and others can do. I’m a somewhat pessimistic person in general, and this show got me right where it counts. And it’s funny as hell, too! All of the above is in no small part due to Jason Sudeikis’s prowess as a comedic performer and personality. If Ted were in someone else’s hands, things could go off the rails quite easily. Sudeikis has confidence that shines through his performance; it’s not cocky, but it is assured—just like…
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Wilford Has Cast His Spell On Snowpiercer
Mr. Wilford wants his train back. And while the people of Snowpiercer appear poised to give it to him, it's less clear how exactly he's managed to hold things together for so long on Big Alice.
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The Salty Pod – Episode 13
In this lucky number 13 episode of The Salty Pod, J & M recap the WandaVision finale.
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Rewind & Rewatch: The Prisoner – The Schizoid Man
I will start the fifth episode rewatch with my prologue from the first episode–as a caveat and introduction. Again, I’ll put this intro into an indented section to make it easier for people who’ve read it to skip it and get to the current episode. I am starting a Rewind & Rewatch series on The Prisoner (the 1967 British series, created by Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein and starring McGoohan). I’ll be following the DVD episode order throughout this rewatch. In this series, I am merely looking for things of interest to me, ideas I find striking. This series is decidedly not a comprehensive review of The Prisoner, and these are certainly not my final thoughts on the…
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Rewind & Rewatch: The Prisoner – Free for All
I will start the fourth episode rewatch with my prologue from the first episode–as a caveat and introduction. Again, I’ll put this intro into an indented section to make it easier for people who’ve read it to skip it and get to the current episode. I am starting a Rewind & Rewatch series on The Prisoner (the 1967 British series, created by Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein and starring McGoohan). I’ll be following the DVD episode order throughout this rewatch. In this series, I am merely looking for things of interest to me, ideas I find striking. This series is decidedly not a comprehensive review of The Prisoner, and these are certainly not my final thoughts on the…
