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Lovecraft Country Episode 5 Review: “Strange Case”

Warning: This article contains discussions of rape and transphobia, images of gore, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. My feelings about Lovecraft Country’s fifth episode, “Strange Case,” can best be summed up in one word: complicated. For what it’s worth, I think that’s…

The Strangers: Prey At Night Review

I finally started playing Dead By Daylight. I’m not very good at it — though I did throw myself a little private celebration the first time I pipped — but I’m working on it. This article isn’t about that, or at least…

The Orville Season 2 – Ep 12 Review

Warning: The following review contains spoilers for The Orville episode titled “Sanctuary.” Instead of my usual open for these reviews, I decided to change things up a little this week. I’ve been talking a lot about how much I love the art…

Doctor Who Series 3 “42” – Review

How well do you think the BBC’s prop department/This Planet Earth build their TARDIS’? Can we stick a writer in there and fling it off a building to see how well the craftsmanship holds up? Preferably a really big building, something like the…

Lovecraft Country Episode 4 Review: “A History of Violence”

Warning: This article contains mentions of colonialism, anti-Indigenous violence, homophobia, transphobia, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. Lovecraft Country has a well-established trajectory of utilizing, playing with, and subverting familiar entries into various (white) literary and cinematic canons. Lovecraft Country’s fourth episode moves…

The Orville Season 2 – Ep 11 Review

Warning; This review contains spoilers for The Orville episode titled “Lasting Impressions.” To be quite honest with you, I’m running out of ways to tell you how much I’ve been enjoying Season 2 of The Orville. There are only four episodes left…

Doctor Who Series 3 “The Lazarus Experiment” Review

This episode is a bit weird, including “You should be used to tight spots by now” followed by a man that’s about several-hundred-years-old holding her undercrackers, I think Martha had a dose of the Innuendos. Then again, it was always going to…

Aggretsuko Season 3 Review

Warning: The following review contains mild spoilers for Season 3 of Aggretsuko. Aggretsuko has been one of the most welcome surprises to Netflix in recent years. The makers of Hello Kitty have brought a hyper-relatable 9-5 workplace dramedy to our screens. The…

Lovecraft Country Episode 3 Review: “Holy Ghost”

Warning: This article contains discussion of racism, violence, torture, death, murder, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. This week’s Lovecraft Country picks up — thematically if not temporally — from where its predecessor left off. With a wound comes a fallout, with loss…

Tenet (Film) Review

A man catches a bullet in the palm of his hand from where it lay on the table. A scientist plays a recording of it for him, backwards and forwards. Backwards: he dropped it. Forwards: he caught it. This is Tenet’s approach…