TV #28 of 2020: The Good Wife, season 4 There’s a lot that I enjoy in this run of episodes, from the trustee played by Nathan Lane to Alicia’s growing disillusionment with her firm’s management style (which really pays off next year, but is fun to watch build up gradually for now). Since the initial …
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TV Review: The Good Wife, season 3
TV #24 of 2020: The Good Wife, season 3 The third year of this law drama is its best one yet, and not only because it finally acts upon the romantic will-they-won’t-they dimension that’s mostly lingered in the background subtext for the first two seasons. There’s also the smart writing decision to bring Eli’s crisis …
TV Review: The Good Wife, season 2
TV #20 of 2020: The Good Wife, season 2 This legal drama’s sophomore outing is even more fun and confident than its initial run, deftly mixing interesting weekly court cases with some enjoyable political intrigue (both in law firm maneuvering and the actual district attorney’s race). We do spend a little too much time on …
TV Review: The Good Wife, season 1
TV #14 of 2020: The Good Wife, season 1 The first year of this CBS legal procedural starts out a little clumsier than I remember, with a bit too much focus on the title character’s children and some of the main cast feeling just lightly sketched-in. But the cases (and judge personalities, a rarity for …
TV Review: Better Call Saul, season 4
TV #9 of 2020: Better Call Saul, season 4 My original review from 2018: “I’ve mentioned this before, but one reason that I prefer Better Call Saul to its parent show is that Walter White has always struck me as being evil right from the start – Breaking Bad could be exciting and horrifying, but …
TV Review: Better Call Saul, season 3
TV #7 of 2020: Better Call Saul, season 3 My original review from 2018: “At this point, I’m almost ready to declare Better Call Saul the superior program to its parent show Breaking Bad. (It helps that there doesn’t seem to be the same toxic fandom around it, with people mistaking a critique of harmful …
TV Review: Better Call Saul, season 2
TV #2 of 2020: Better Call Saul, season 2 My original review from 2016: “The unexpected Breaking Bad spinoff continues to be a fascinating character study, and this season really embraces the aspect of a Shakespearean tragedy that comes from its audience knowing, at least in broad strokes, how the story ends. I’m not sure …
Movie Review: Midnight Run (1988)
Movie #2 of 2020: Midnight Run (1988) Another old favorite, and one which my family has seen so many times over the years that some of its choicest dialogue has long since entered our regular vernacular. (We even used to have a dog named after one of the characters.) This movie’s comedic rhythms are so …
Movie Review: Hopscotch (1980)
Movie #1 of 2020: Hopscotch (1980) This film is an old family favorite, which we rewatched in honor of my grandfather who recently passed away. It’s still fun, although decidedly of its era, with minimal time for its female characters outside of their relationships to men, use of a homophobic slur and affected lisp, and …
Movie Review: Veronica Mars (2014)
Movie #13 of 2019: Veronica Mars (2014) I still haven’t seen the new Hulu revival of Veronica Mars, but my rewatch has finally reached this equally-unexpected reunion movie that came out in 2014, seven years after the original show went off the air. I think I’m a little more charitable towards the project than I …
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