WGN America’s ‘Underground’ beautifully tackles difficult subject matter with grace and style. Emmys should pay attention to this brilliant series.
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Review: AMC’s ‘Into the Badlands’
AMC’s new martial arts entry ‘Into the Badlands’ features the expected jaw-dropping fight choreography but is bogged down by an excess of mythology and clichéd dialogue.
Review: ‘Hannibal’ Wraps up Season and Maybe Series
One of the primary sources of tension on Hannibal was whether or not Hugh Dancy’s Will Graham would give in to the compulsion to become a killer, and the key thing to remember about that is that the compulsion existed in Graham long before he met Doctor Lecter. Hannibal doesn’t create murderous thoughts, he simply …
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Review: ‘Hannibal,’ Aperitivo
Hannibal’s latest entry advances the Season Three plot forward, hopefully silencing all of those who have complained that the show has been too focused on character development.
Hannibal S3E2 – “Primavera”
If “Primavera” is somewhat more conventional an episode compared to last week’s “Antipasto”, it still follows the premiere’s path for storytelling that is dictated more by character and emotion rather than confirming to an conventional plot expectations. The difference is this time around, we’re almost entirely inside Will Graham’s head rather than Hannibal’s or Bedelia’s. …
Hannibal S03E01 – Antipasto
With Hannibal‘s Season 3 premiere, Bryan Fuller has proven again that he is by no means interested in playing out the story of Thomas Harris’s legendary serial killer in a conventional manner. Season 1 changed the game by setting the story long before the events of Red Dragon, Season 2 by inverting the formula by …
Review: Netflix Finally Gets Daredevil Right
Whether you love them, hate them, or exist somewhere in between, you can’t deny that on the big screen at least, Marvel Studios has had some of the most consistent output from a major studio of recent years. They have had more mixed results on television, namely in the entertaining but uneven Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. …
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