Category: Television
Ghoul: Folklore, Fascists, and Fear
Ghoul, the new three-episode miniseries from Netflix, generates its chills with a blend of tried-and-true tropes borrowed from multiple […]
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Disenchantment Has Its Charms
Disenchantment, Matt Groening’s new series for Netflix, certainly has its own unique charms. It is no Futurama. It is […]
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Castle Rock: All the Discomforts of Home
Castle Rock is Hulu’s finely-crafted ode to Stephen King’s intricate world-building. The series is faithful to the author’s voice […]
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Misfits & Monsters Fits the Bill
Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits &Monsters is, not surprisingly, pretty strange. Goldthwait–a man known for his incredibly dark sense of humor– […]
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Read This: Harlan Ellison Is Gone
Harlan Ellison died last week at the age of 84. He was a genuine legend in science fiction, by […]
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The Terror: Chillingly Good
The Terror, AMC’s new horror series, is well worth your time. In this version, the fantastic elements intensify an already harrowing tale, where the natural world is as much a monster as the supernatural threats that plague the doomed men.
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Stan Against Evil: Hits and Misses
IFC’s Stan Against Evil is a slight and subversively funny show that is somehow, less than the sum of […]
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Westworld and Ash vs Evil Dead: Good, Bad & Ugly (spoilers)
Last night saw the premieres of two shows I’ve been waiting for: Westworld on HBO and Ash vs Evil […]
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Stranger Things Gets Its Weirdness Right
Stranger Things, Netflix’s latest series, launched its first eight episode season on July 15. I had to drag myself […]
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Preacher Is Still Finding Its Way
Preacher, the comic book-inspired series that debuted on May 22 on AMC, is so far a cautiously-paced, blackly funny […]
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