Now Streaming: Sex Education Season 1
As much as I love the concept of Gillian Anderson playing a kooky sex therapist, Netflix’s new(-ish) comedy series Sex Education takes a few episodes to figure out what kind of show it wants to be.
As much as I love the concept of Gillian Anderson playing a kooky sex therapist, Netflix’s new(-ish) comedy series Sex Education takes a few episodes to figure out what kind of show it wants to be.
The Sunlit Night is the latest of a bunch of indie drama/comedies starring Jenny Slate in the last few years. They usually follow a similar formula – a fish out of water situation, someone dealing with a life-changing event like d...
With Chris Carter writing and directing again, there was never any doubt that the season finale of ‘The X Files’ would be awful. The real question was always just how awful it could be.
If 2016’s six-episode revival of ‘The X Files’ was a so-called “limited event series,” why did it end with a cliffhanger begging for more episodes and what do we call the new season? Perhaps it’...
One of the strangest TV shows currently on the air (perhaps not the strangest, but one of them at least), ‘American Gods’ ended its short first season on Starz this week. Befitting such an unconventional series, the la...
I dreaded this. I knew going in that the finale of the ‘X Files’ revival would tie directly to the awful season premiere episode. Somehow, despite setting my expectations as low as possible (is there something lower th...
Now we’re talking! If the new season of ‘The X Files’ underwhelmed at first, the third episode is an instant classic that justifies the entire revival.
After the terrible premiere episode on Sunday, Fox quickly followed with a second episode of the newly revived ‘The X Files’ on Monday night, which will be the show’s regular timeslot for the rest of its run. It ...
Fourteen years have passed since ‘The X Files’ closed on television, with one box office dud feature film in between. Riding the current wave of nostalgia for any property that used to be popular once upon a time, Fox ...
After my spending half a season complaining that the show has merely replayed storylines already familiar from the Thomas Harris novel and its two movie adaptations, ‘Hannibal’ finally went off-book, so to speak, with ...
As a huge fan of NBC’s ‘Hannibal’, I hate to admit that – with the latest episode – I think the show’s decision to devote the rest of its final season to the Red Dragon storyline may have been a really big ...
As much as I love ‘Hannibal’, sometimes the show’s artier affectations get the better of it and prove distracting to the storytelling – even to the point of making the plot nearly impossible to follow.