TV #4 of 2025: Sex Education, season 2 Reliably funny, but not quite as charming as the first installment of this Netflix series. The main problem here is Otis, the awkward virgin and son of a sex therapist at the heart of the program, still dispensing unsanctioned but helpful advice to his classmates. This second …
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TV Review: The Umbrella Academy, season 2
TV #44 of 2024: The Umbrella Academy, season 2 Categorically an improvement over the debut year of this comic book adaptation, which I rated at a frustrating 2-out-of-5 stars for all its elements that never really came together or lived up to their potential. The change for the better is felt immediately in the season …
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TV Review: Star Trek: Discovery, season 3
TV #60 of 2023: Star Trek: Discovery, season 3 Discovery’s messy second season ended with the ship jumping far away from the familiar, and this next year quickly confirms that the crew have arrived in the distant future, 900 years after their original era directly preceding TOS. That’s a smart writing choice on a couple …
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TV Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1
TV #58 of 2023: Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1 I can’t complain too much about this show. It’s an animated half-hour comedy that, sure, makes me laugh most episodes. But I don’t think it’s really living up to its mission or its potential, at least in this first year. The series takes its name …
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TV Review: Star Trek: Picard, season 1
TV #56 of 2023: Star Trek: Picard, season 1 Patrick Stewart seems to be enjoying himself in reprising the title role of this Star Trek sequel series set and produced decades after his time on The Next Generation, but this whole first season is built around a huge miscalculation of what sort of story would …
TV Review: Star Trek: Short Treks, season 2
TV #53 of 2023: Star Trek: Short Treks, season 2 This second — and so far, final — batch of quick Trek adventures remedies one of my complaints about the first season: that it was too beholden to the show Discovery in particular, instead of taking advantage of the wider canon at its disposal. And …
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TV Review: Bob’s Burgers, season 10
TV #54 of 2022: Bob’s Burgers, season 10 A full decade into its span, and I am running out of things to say about Bob’s Burgers. This is the first season I’ve seen in a while that’s actually been new to me — I originally stopped watching after the previous one finished airing in 2019, …
What We Do in the Shadows, season 2
TV #38 of 2022: What We Do in the Shadows, season 2 Another great yet too short season of this hilarious undead mockumentary. (Ten episodes may not be enough space to develop and deliver a truly superb storyline, especially given how meandering this series tends to be. I love the characters and laugh a lot …
TV Review: Star Wars Resistance, season 2
TV #84 of 2021: Star Wars Resistance, season 2 This batch of episodes is a marked improvement over the first, with main character Kazuda far less irritating now that he’s no longer juggling his poorly-disguised espionage missions with equally inept racing and mechanic work. I think that’s due partly to personal growth and partly just …
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TV Review: Killing Eve, season 3
TV #47 of 2021: Killing Eve, season 3 After a strong opening stretch that set up a compelling queer romance amid its bleak comedy, this series has really plummeted in quality, with this latest run by far its weakest yet. The open questions about character loyalties that were once intriguing have never been satisfactorily answered, …
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