TV #49 of 2024: Babylon 5, season 2 This science-fiction series has been steadily improving and growing darker in tone, but I’m still not ready in this second season to bump my critical rating up out of the midrange three-star tier. At its best, I’m really interested in the larger serialized story that the show …
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TV Review: Seinfeld, season 6
TV #15 of 2024: Seinfeld, season 6 I don’t know if this qualifies as a hot take nearly three decades after the fact, but I personally think that Seinfeld is a stronger, funnier, and more distinctive sitcom when it leans away from its instincts for wacky zaniness and into the pedantically mundane (the opposing Kramer …
TV Review: Star Trek: Voyager, season 1
TV #59 of 2021: Star Trek: Voyager, season 1 The overwhelming feeling I have about this particular sci-fi spinoff so far is one of wasted potential. I can see the Lost in Space angle that the writers are going for, isolating a starship far from the known setting of the rest of the franchise and …
TV Review: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 3
TV #51 of 2021: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 3 Although the larger plot is still not quite as serialized as I think it could be, there’s promising movement here with the true nature of the Dominion founders, whose threat is best exemplified in the tense riff on John Carpenter’s The Thing that constitutes …
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