TV Review: ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 15
It’s kind of an unwritten rule in Star Wars that although people are able to make great plans, they never
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Author: Frank Martin
‘Gotham Knights’ Season 1, Episode 3 Review
Gotham Knights is setting itself up as a tough show to like. It’s not that it is inherently uninteresting by
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Commentary: The Best ‘Star Wars’ Eras
A great thing about Star Wars is that its stories are organized into eras. Star Wars branding does this specifically
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A Transition Toward The Finale In ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 14
While last week’s episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch felt like filler, this week’s installment felt more like a
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‘Superman & Lois’ Season 3, Episode 2 Review
It’s very hard to deliver a solid episode of television regardless of the show or genre. Very rarely do shows
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TV Review: ‘Gotham Knights’ Season 1, Episode 2
Two episodes in and Gotham Knights is already starting to show its weaknesses. Right from the start, the program is
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TV Review: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 4
After two seasons of treating Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) like a lone wolf in a western, The Mandalorian is starting
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Commentary: Ghostface Is The Ultimate Legacy Character
As Hollywood gets into even more reboots, remakes, and long-awaited sequels, the subject of legacy characters has become a bigger
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‘Independence Day’ — Extended Editions Don’t Mean Better Editions
A lot of focus is often put on extended editions. The general consensus amongst fans is that longer is better.
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‘Gotham Knights’ Season 1, Episode 1 Review
Just as Batman has been adapted an incredible amount of times, so have his side characters. In order to let
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TV Review: ‘Superman & Lois’ Season 3, Episode 1
Superman & Lois has been the best superhero show on broadcast television the past two seasons, and it doesn’t appear
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‘The Flash’ Season 9, Episode 6 Review
It’s episodes like this week’s installment of The Flash that make it understandable why the show is ending. After the
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A Fine Digression Dominates ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 3
The great thing about the Star Wars universe: it is extremely multifaceted. It contains so many different shows (and films,
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TV Review: ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 13
The problem with a television show containing many episodes in a given season is that it’s impossible to keep the
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TV Review: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 2
It’s tough to think of The Mandalorian as a slow burn because there has been so much action over its
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TV Review: ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 12
Star Wars: The Bad Batch is really setting itself up as a show about more than just a squadron of
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TV Review: ‘The Flash’ Season 9, Episode 5
There were a lot of fears going into this two-part Red Death episode of The Flash. For one: it would
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‘Turning Red’ And Writing That Is “Too Personal”
Last year’s Pixar film Turning Red drew a lot of polarizing reactions upon its release. But regardless whether people praised
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‘Ash Vs. Evil Dead’ — Practical Horror As A Genre
One of the greatest aspects in the early days of horror cinema were its special effects. Moviegoers that were in
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TV Review: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 1
One weakness plaguing The Mandalorian since its beginning is the length of episodes. The Season 3 premiere was all around
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Commentary: ‘Star Wars Visions’ Is A New Kind Of Canon
The importance of canon varies from franchise to franchise. In terms of Star Wars, it tends to be extremely important
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TV Review: ‘The Flash’ Season 9, Episode 4
The Red Death was always going to be a problematic character to adapt from the comic page to the TV
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‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season Two, Episode Eleven Review
One of the great things about Star Wars is the depth of the mythology it can pull from. Even if
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‘Cobra Kai’ And Great Characterization In Unlikely Places
It is strange the places that great characterization can be found. Sometimes, a story is obviously a character tale that’s
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TV Review: ‘The Flash’ Season 9, Episode 3
There are many downsides to a show lasting as long as The Flash. It’s hard to find new territory to
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Why Horror Anthology Series Work So Well
The anthology is a powerful form of storytelling. They happen quite often in books, but there is still a
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TV Review: ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 10
After last week’s episode essentially ended on a cliffhanger, it made sense that Star Wars: The Bad Batch would pick
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Commentary: ‘White Lotus’ & The Different Kinds Of Sequels
Dr. Manhattan has a famous line in Watchmen. Ozymandias asks him if he did the right thing in the end,
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TV Review: ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 9
TV shows can be frustrating sometimes. After having a very political and action-heavy two-part story arc, Star Wars: The Bad
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‘The Last Of Us’ And The Strange Calculus Of Media
Filmmaking is tricky business. Fans constantly rail against corporate executives who make financial decisions based on weird management tools they
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‘The Flash’ Season 9, Episode 2 Review
When a show has been running as long as The Flash has, the honeymoon phase for fans is definitely over.
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