TV #29 of 2022: Bob’s Burgers, season 5 Another strong year of Bob’s Burgers, albeit maybe a slight step down from the one before, if only because I don’t know that I’d include any of these individual episodes on an all-time favorites list. But they generally remain funny and confident explorations of characters, with the …
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TV Review: Bob’s Burgers, season 4
TV #23 of 2022: Bob’s Burgers, season 4 After three seasons right on the cusp of greatness, I am willing to say that this fourth year of Bob’s Burgers has finally crossed that quality threshold for me. We have a few all-time classic installments like Fort Night and Christmas in the Car — a Halloween …
TV Review: Classic Doctor Who, season 2
TV #20 of 2022: Classic Doctor Who, season 2 This sophomore season is the most complete of Doctor Who’s black-and-white runs, with only two episodes still missing, available as merely audio recordings and visual reconstructions today. Watching all this through finds a mixed bag overall, but there are a few highlights I’d particularly recommend to …
TV Review: Bob’s Burgers, season 3
TV #16 of 2022: Bob’s Burgers, season 3 This animated family sitcom has been getting better year over year, and this third season produces what I’d call its first all-time classic episode, Mother Daughter Laser Razor. No other half-hour in this run quite matches that one’s fantastic blend of action, comedy, and character growth, but …
TV Review: Bob’s Burgers, season 2
TV #13 of 2022: Bob’s Burgers, season 2 It’s hard to adequately judge a nine-episode run of a half-hour animated comedy, but with the exception of maybe the Goonies-homage premiere I don’t think any of these sophomore installments stands out as a classic of the program, and the writers are clearly still fiddling with the …
TV Review: Bob’s Burgers, season 1
TV #9 of 2022: Bob’s Burgers, season 1 The 2011 launch to this animated family series is generally charming and funny, yet it doesn’t quite feel fully-formed, especially from a rewatch perspective. (I dropped the show from my regular viewing roster at some point, but I know I’ve seen at least the first nine seasons.) …
TV Review: Fringe, season 5
TV #6 of 2022: Fringe, season 5 A very strange season, and a very strange ending to Fringe. Following up on the flash-forward episode “Letters of Transit” from the previous year, this final run finds the team frozen in amber for two decades, then thawed out to fight the invading Observers who have meanwhile taken …
TV Review: Fringe, season 4
TV #3 of 2022: Fringe, season 4 I didn’t have much patience for this penultimate run the first time I watched through Fringe, as the literal retcon of the rebooted timeline struck me as a lazy excuse for the writers to stop caring about continuity at all. They keep coy about everything that’s now different …
TV Review: ReBoot, season 4
TV #2 of 2022: ReBoot, season 4 Oh, that wicked cliffhanger! 20 years later, it still stings that we leave Mainframe in such a perilous position, and that the eventual semi-sequel to this show, aside from being awful all-around, never even tries to provide any resolution to it. Like the teams on Angel or Animorphs, …
TV Review: Fringe, season 3
TV #88 of 2021: Fringe, season 3 This is my favorite era of Fringe, and I am so tempted to give it a full five stars. Picking up on the cliffhanger escape from the parallel world, this run starts with our Olivia Dunham trapped over there, being brainwashed to believe she’s her doppelgänger, while that …
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