TV #22 of 2025: Babylon 5, season 4 By far the weakest iteration of this 90s sci-fi series yet, although things turn around enough near the end (starting approximately when Sheridan is captured by his enemies and the standout episode “Intersections in Real Time”) that I’ll still rate it as three-out-of-five stars. Too much of …
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TV Review: Seinfeld, season 8
TV #35 of 2024: Seinfeld, season 8 The penultimate year of this 90s sitcom is the first one without the involvement of co-creator Larry David, and the difference is rather immediately felt. Structurally, the show stops using a clip of Jerry’s standup act to launch each episode — reportedly the actor-producer was now too busy …
TV Review: Star Trek: Voyager, season 3
TV #8 of 2022: Star Trek: Voyager, season 3 Overall, this third year of Star Trek’s Lost in Space riff displays the same weaknesses as before. Few of its episodes are terribly awful — and I’d even grant that none are as bad as some of the clunkers from season 2 — but they still …
TV Review: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 5
TV #87 of 2021: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 5 Another strong year of life aboard this space station, where an ongoing plot provides important background context for the episodic concerns, where the characters and their relationships change over long-term arcs, and where the local geopolitics likewise continues to develop with a history and …
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