TV #10 of 2024: Seinfeld, season 5 This season of Seinfeld doesn’t have a major arc like the meta show-within-a-show factor of the previous year, but it’s nevertheless a strong run of episodes made distinctive by the development of George moving back in with his parents, which allows for new kinds of story premises and …
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TV Review: ReBoot, season 1
TV #72 of 2021: ReBoot, season 1 I have a lot of fondness for this old cartoon, which premiered in 1994 as the world’s first all-CGI series (before the movie Toy Story helped popularize the technology). Set inside a computer where the digital heroes have to fend off viruses — plus the users playing games …
TV Review: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 2
TV #30 of 2021: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 2 I’m somewhat less impressed by this second outing of Deep Space Nine than I was by its debut year. The elements are all there for this show to tell a deeper, more serialized narrative than any previous Star Trek iteration — which jetsetted around …
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TV Review: Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7
TV #20 of 2021: Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7 With very few exceptions, this final span of TNG plays like a program that has essentially run out of fresh ideas. There’s no real shame in that — the series already had over 150 episodes under its belt ahead of this last run, not …
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