2025-04-07

The Last of Us season two review: Amplified action and crushing drama

HBO’s The Last of Us took a riveting action game bolstered by intimate human moments and made a richly human drama supported by terrifying action. In returning for season two, and now using the sequ [...]

2025-04-09

The Last of Us season two review: More zombies, and more heartbreak

HBO’s The Last of Us took a riveting action game bolstered by intimate human moments and made a richly human drama supported by terrifying action. In returning for season two, and now using the sequ [...]

2025-05-17

Doctor Who: ‘The Interstellar Song Contest’ review: Camp!

Spoilers for “The Interstellar Song Contest.”<br /> <br /> No, really, spoilers from here on out.<br /> <br /> Much like Eurovision itself, that was a lot, wasn’t it?< [...]

2025-04-14

The Last of Us season two premiere: 'Future Days' highlights the fracture between Ellie and Joel

Spoilers follow for The Last of Us season two, episode one<br /> The heart of all things The Last of Us, whether it’s the games or the first season of the HBO adaptation, is the relationship b [...]

2025-04-21

The Last of Us season two 'Through the Valley' recap: Well, that happened

Spoilers follow for The Last of Us season two, episodes one and two<br /> HBO’s The Last of Us showed viewers in season one that it would lean heavily on the source video games for major plot [...]

2025-04-10

Black Mirror is now a delightful escape from reality

Minor spoilers for Black Mirror season 7 ahead.<br /> The latest season of Black Mirror feels almost therapeutic as we peer over the cliff of civilizational collapse. Everything is awful, but at [...]

2025-04-19

Doctor Who ‘Lux’ review: Hope can change the world

Spoilers for “Lux.”<br /> It’s an interesting time to be a long-running science fantasy media property in the streaming TV age. Star Trek is in the grip of an existential crisis as it (wro [...]

2025-06-15

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ third season falls short of its second

This is a spoiler-free preview of the first five episodes of season three.<br /> Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ended its second season with arguably the single strongest run of any streaming-era [...]

2025-05-10

Doctor Who ‘The Story and the Engine’ review: Just a trim, thanks

Spoilers for “The Story and the Engine.”<br /> Doctor Who lives and dies by the quality of its writing and acting far more than almost anything else on TV. Audiences may demand big explosion [...]