TV #28 of 2022: Obi-Wan Kenobi, season 1 In terms of the other live-action Star Wars shows, this new release is somewhat better than The Book of Boba Fett yet substantially worse than The Mandalorian. I’m glad that the miniseries doesn’t solely revolve around the title figure and a 10-year-old Luke Skywalker on Tatooine as …
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TV Review: Killing Eve, season 4
TV #27 of 2022: Killing Eve, season 4 I gave the first year of this show four-out-of-five stars, even while worrying how the writing “seems to revel in ambiguity, throwing out potential explanations and character motivations at times but seldom following through to confirm or reject exactly why anything is happening. As a result, much …
TV Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife, season 1
TV #26 of 2022: The Time Traveler’s Wife, season 1 I remember enjoying the original novel that this miniseries is based on, but I read it way back in early 2016, so I can’t comment on specific adaptation choices in much depth. (I never saw the old movie with Rachel McAdams, either.) But six TV …
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TV Review: Russian Doll, season 2
TV #24 of 2022: Russian Doll, season 2 The story of a couple New Yorkers repeatedly dying in a loop of the same birthday party was always going to be a difficult act to follow, and this second season makes the smart choice to keep those characters but totally reinvent the premise. This time, there …
TV Review: Bosch: Legacy, season 1
TV #21 of 2022: Bosch: Legacy, season 1 Note: I have very negative feelings about the last few scenes and the cliffhanger ending to this season. To avoid spoilers, I won’t get into that here. But if you’re interested in my thoughts, you can find them in a Twitter thread at the following link: https://twitter.com/lesserjoke/status/1530415054990061568 …
TV Review: Saturday Night Live, season 47
TV #19 of 2022: Saturday Night Live, season 47 This is the fifth season of SNL in a row that I’ve watched straight through as it aired, so at this point I feel pretty confident in my ability to rate a given span against the program’s typical output. So, what was different for the long-running …
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TV Review: Moon Knight, season 1
TV #18 of 2022: Moon Knight, season 1 I’ve enjoyed the first half of this six-episode miniseries as a character study of a meek man coming to realize his blackouts and sleepwalking are the result of undiagnosed Dissociative Identity Disorder — and that his opposite persona is a confident ex-mercenary who’s also the superpowered avatar …
TV Review: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, season 4
TV #11 of 2022: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, season 4 This mid-century comedy continues to shine in its lavish period trimmings and signature Amy Sherman-Palladino banter, but the series has lost all sense of its protagonist’s motivation or personal storyline at this point. She’s determined to be a standup comic but is refusing all opening …
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TV Review: The Book of Boba Fett, season 1
TV #7 of 2022: The Book of Boba Fett, season 1 This spinoff title coasts by on the lingering coolness of a live-action Star Wars show and the fun of revisiting the aftermath of Jabba the Hutt’s death from Return of the Jedi, but it’s a substantial step down in quality from its parent series …
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TV Review: Station Eleven, season 1
TV #4 of 2022: Station Eleven, season 1 Nearly two years into a real-life pandemic — one which delayed this very production — it’s maybe hard to believe that a tale about that sort of devastation and its aftermath could register as remotely feel-good. And the general premise here, of a roving troupe of Shakespearean …
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