American Crime Story S2E8: Creator/Destroyer
And just like that, with one week to go, they’ve got it back.
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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House
March 13, 2018
UnREAL Recaps S2E3: Clarity
This entire episode kicks into gear with a UTI, and it’s just less pleasant from there on out.
March 12, 2018
Carrie Recaps: Part Fifteen
Sorry for the break in recaps – these posts tend to eat up quite a lot of time, so sometimes they have to get forgone if I have a lot of work to catch up on or, you know, if there’s a really good match on or the Oscars to deal with or something. We left off last time as the carnage at the prom began to unfold, and we pick up with an interview with a local drunk who recounts, in an exceptionally long Q-and-A session that I swear takes up a good half of this entire chapter, what he saw as Carrie started her rampage.
March 11, 2018
Why Jessica Jones Season Two Doesn’t (Quite) Work
I didn’t write about the first season of Jessica Jones. There were lots of reasons for that, but the biggest one was because the show felt so personal to me: as I wrote about Lady Bird a few weeks ago, it’s hard to really take a critical look at something that feels as though it’s so tied up in you as a person. And that’s a compliment to the show. It’s hard to think of the last time a run of episodes felt so gallingly specific, to the point where I just can’t take a look at the show on it’s strengths and weaknesses because it felt like jamming a finger into some raw part of my own brain and sloshing it back and forth a bit.
March 10, 2018
Movie Review: You Were Never Really Here
As brutal as it is brilliant, Lynne Ramsay’s latest is the best movie of the year so far.
March 9, 2018
Riverdale S2E14: The Hills Have Eyes
Well, we’re back after the break with an episode that’s more weird than good – but hey, since the show is focused in on it’s four leads this week (Betty, Veronica, Artie, and Jughead) as they all head up to Lodge Lodge in the woods for a romantic weekend away, let’s break this down and take a look at each of our central quartet, one by one. Starting with, of course, Archie.
March 8, 2018
American Crime Story S2E7: Ascent
Hmm.
With a run as good as the one this season of American Crime Story has been on, there’s always going to be an episode that doesn’t stick the way the rest of them do. And this week’s outing, Ascent, is precisely that.
March 6, 2018
UnREAL S3E2: Shield
Now, I know that UnREAL (God, that stylised title is already getting exhausting to type) can’t spend all of it’s third season promising us that it knows what it did wrong in it’s second like it did last week, and I don’t want it to. At some point it has to strike out and be it’s own thing, and this second episode, Shield, is certainly an attempt at that.
March 1, 2018
American Crime Story Recaps S2E6: Descent
The world owes Andrew Cunanan. And he’s here to collect.
March 1, 2018
Oscar Season: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A timely movie explores the cycles of violence that poison communities, and searches for a way out of them.
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