TV #49 of 2017: Game of Thrones, season 5 This is where the wheels really start to come off Game of Thrones. It’s still better than season 7 in terms of character logic and a lack of plot armor, but this is the point where the writers were past the current ending of the books …
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TV Review: The Mindy Project, season 3
TV #48 of 2017: The Mindy Project, season 3 This show is getting incrementally better, with the addition of Danny’s mom this season a definite strength. On the other hand, it’s still wildly inconsistent in terms of character logic and the type of show it feels like it’s trying to be. Like I’ve said before, …
TV Review: Stranger Things
TV #47 of 2017: Stranger Things I know I’m about a year behind on this, but this show was a lot of fun. It wears its 80s homages right there on its sleeve, and although it never quite deconstructs those inherited tropes as much as I’d like, it at least manages to surprise me with …
TV Review: The West Wing, season 6
TV #46 of 2017: The West Wing, season 6 Oh man, late West Wing is such a mixed bag. I think season 5 is unquestionably the worst, and that lingers a little bit into the start of this next one. The primary campaign is a real shot of adrenaline, though, and it definitely works as …
TV Review: House of Cards, season 5
TV #45 of 2017: House of Cards, season 5 We had watched all but the last two episodes of this season before the Kevin Spacey news broke, and we finally got around to finishing it up. Even if you set aside everything we now know about the star actor, this was a pretty awful season …
TV Review: Marvel’s Inhumans, season 1
TV #44 of 2017: Marvel’s Inhumans, season 1 Oh, my god. This show was so awful that it retroactively makes Iron Fist look pretty decent by comparison. We’re never given any reason to care about the characters or their situation, the villains have no clear motivation at all, and the plot basically spins its wheels …
TV Review: The Handmaid’s Tale, season 1
TV #43 of 2017: The Handmaid’s Tale, season 1 Very powerful and difficult-to-watch television. To be honest, I wasn’t really blown away when I read the book this show was based on – it’s definitely a solid dystopian nightmare, but I didn’t find it especially gripping or haunting. This adaptation was all of that and …
TV Review: Game of Thrones, season 4
TV #42 of 2017: Game of Thrones, season 4 I try to keep these reviews fairly spoiler-free, even this long after the fact, so let me just say vaguely that after three years of Game of Thrones airing shocking plot twists at the end of each season, it’s nice to have the major moment in …
TV Review: Party Down, season 2
TV #41 of 2017: Party Down, season 2 One of the things I love about Party Down – and there’s a lot! – is just how committed it is to its structure. This is the only workplace comedy I can think of where practically every single moment takes place entirely within the workplace. These people …
TV Review: The Mindy Project, season 2
TV #40 of 2017: The Mindy Project, season 2 Honestly I don’t think this show knows what it wants to be. Even ignoring all the cast changes, the writing too feels like it careens wildly from one sort of story to the next without always bringing in solid character logic to back those plays. On …
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