TV #32 of 2025: Babylon 5, season 5 The last season of this 90s sci-fi show is somehow even weaker than the previous one, although there are enough saving elements here and there that I’ll still give it a three-star rating overall. (And it is better than some of the movies, at least.) The problem …
Tag Archives: TV aired in 1998
TV Review: Seinfeld, season 9
TV #39 of 2024: Seinfeld, season 9 And so this 90s sitcom goes out like it came in, as a reliably funny but seldom spectacular viewing experience. (I’m not trying to damn the show with faint praise here, but you can see why it became such a mainstay of network television syndication, where audiences could …
TV Review: Star Trek: Voyager, season 4
TV #25 of 2022: Star Trek: Voyager, season 4 This is far and away the best run of the series yet, partly because the writers have gotten much of the early silliness out of their system as they determine what stories work well for the premise, but mostly because of the introduction of new main …
TV Review: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 6
TV #17 of 2022: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 6 Overall I would call this the strongest run yet of DS9 — and the Star Trek saga at large, for that matter — although that designation does come with a few glaring exceptions. First is the episode “Profit and Lace,” a thankfully standalone / …
Continue reading “TV Review: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 6”
TV Review: ReBoot, season 3
TV #85 of 2021: ReBoot, season 3 An absolute delight, all the way through to that daft but earned Penzance recap number that closes everything out. This run starts right where the last one left off (although a year and a half had passed for viewers), and it continues the strong streak of serialized plot …
TV Review: Dawson’s Creek, season 1
TV #11 of 2021: Dawson’s Creek, season 1 I think I was too young when this show first aired to watch it then or hold any nostalgic attachment now, and I’m old enough at this point that I still don’t have an easy identification with the teenage protagonists. Both in the age of the cast …
The Lesser Joke: book reviews and more 