2025-01-16

The best live TV streaming services to cut cable in 2025

Around ten years ago, as the price of cable rose to untenable heights, live TV streaming services arrived as the low-cost, contract-free antidote. The services are still blissfully easy to walk away f [...]

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?< [...]

2025-04-09

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 [...]

2025-04-07

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 [...]

2025-04-14

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 [...]

2025-04-19

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 [...]

2025-05-10

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 [...]

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 [...]

2025-04-10

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 [...]