TV #50 of 2025: The Sopranos, season 3 I’ve long heard that episode 3×11 “Pine Barrens” is one of the best individual hours that this show ever produced, and having finally now seen the Fargo-esque caper for myself, I can’t really argue with that designation. Unfortunately, however, the season around it is kind of a …
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TV Review: Farscape, season 2
TV #43 of 2024: Farscape, season 2 An excellent escalation of an already-strong beginning the year before. While the passage of time and their shared experiences together have sanded down the edges and rendered Moya’s crew into more of a cohesive and friendly unit — with the possible exception of Rygel, who remains a bit …
TV Review: Star Trek: Voyager, season 7
TV #18 of 2023: Star Trek: Voyager, season 7 I’ve never been too enamored of Star Trek’s extended Lost in Space riff, but this final season is such an improvement over the previous outings that I’m happy to bump my rating up to four-out-of-five stars. My earliest complaint about this series, taken from my review …
TV Review: Six Feet Under, season 1
TV #7 of 2023: Six Feet Under, season 1 So far, I’m pretty ambivalent about this early aughts HBO drama about a family who own and run an independent funeral home. A lot of the personal arcs and relationships are interesting, especially given how the show starts (fittingly enough) with a loss that reconfigures the …
TV Review: Gilmore Girls, season 1
TV #3 of 2023: Gilmore Girls, season 1 This will be at least my third full watch-through of Gilmore Girls, which I think speaks to the overall quality of the program, but also to the ways in which a multigenerational drama like this can resonate with various audiences at various ages. The first time I …
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: Dawson’s Creek, season 4
TV #50 of 2021: Dawson’s Creek, season 4 Although I still don’t love Dawson Leery as a character, this is easily the least infuriating he’s ever been. The writers have toned down his self-centered and jealous nature in a way that can read as belated maturity in the high school senior, and they even manage …
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