Now Streaming: The I-Land
Ever since Lost went off the air, a lot of TV shows have come and gone trying to be the next Lost. I can’t think of any quite so shameless about it as Netflix’s The I-Land.
Ever since Lost went off the air, a lot of TV shows have come and gone trying to be the next Lost. I can’t think of any quite so shameless about it as Netflix’s The I-Land.
The prospect of Sacha Baron Cohen playing a secret agent practically begs for a “Borat Does Bond” headline. Surprisingly, Netflix’s The Spy is a very serious story, played completely straight. Even more of a shoc...
Many fantasy or science fiction narratives use metaphor and allegory to associate relatable real-world events with an extraordinary premise or setting. When done properly, which generally means subtly, this can be a powerful story...
Netflix’s new epic event series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is what happens when you give Jim Henson’s gentle 1982 fantasy parable to the director of Transporter 2 with instructions to Game of Thrones the hell ...
The awkwardly lengthy title of Showtime’s new dark comedy On Becoming a God in Central Florida seems indicative of a problem with the series: It doesn’t know when or how to stop.
A TV series as defiantly weird as AMC’s Preacher couldn’t possibly last forever. For many reasons, the fact that it survived more than a single year is pretty amazing. Back this week for its fourth and officially final...
We may have already hit the saturation point for movies and TV shows about superheroes but, vague title aside, Amazon’s The Boys has a fun take on the genre. If super powers really did exist, isn’t it likely that most ...
Former Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff returns to duty in space for Netflix’s new sci-fi drama Another Life. I wish she could have brought some of that prior show’s good writing with her.
The Starz network’s new high-concept sci-fi drama The Rook feels specifically designed as a replacement for the recently-canceled Counterpart. Although the premiere episode shows some promise, I’m not certain that it e...
After its deeply confusing and, let’s be honest, frequently incoherent second season, FX’s bizarre superhero drama Legion saw its viewers throw their hands in the air and its ratings nosedive. However, the show still h...
Showtime’s new crime drama City on a Hill arrives with an impressive pedigree, good writing, and strong performances. Unfortunately, it follows in the footsteps of a lot of similar TV shows and may struggle to set itself apa...
I would almost say that his new Amazon streaming series Too Old to Die Young plays like a parody of a bad Nicolas Winding Refn movie, except that the word “parody” might imply something funny about it. There’s no...