Wicked good
Apple TV series Widow’s Bay is an addictive horror comedy By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Both big- and small-screen productions have become so formulaic and derivative that pointing out that fact is, itself, formulaic and...
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Starfleet Academy and Fallout: Anatomy of a review bombing
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff On the surface, Fallout and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy couldn’t be much more different. The former is a post-apocalyptic wasteland romp with hard-MA violence and more gallows humor than an...
New and returning shows for your escapist pleasure
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff There’s been a lot to absorb in the real world over the past few weeks, and many of us may be looking for some escape. There are lots of healthy...
Stranger Things ends with a hefty dose of nostalgia for nostalgia
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It was probably never meant to be that Stranger Things would end on a tone of universal acclaim. No show can sustain nearly a decade of cultural juggernaut status without...
Top TV of 2025
Or at least the shows I especially liked By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Putting together these end-of-year summary articles is always a somewhat fraught exercise. When it comes to something like “TV shows of the...
New FX-Hulu series Alien: Earth is already a must-watch after four episodes
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The Panida Theater just screened director Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi/horror masterpiece Alien as part of its $5 movie series; and, while there is an entire dark constellation of other films...
Lifestyles of the rich and worthless
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Most sources credit Jean-Jacques Rousseau with writing, “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” No one knows for certain whether he actually...
Netflix’s Mr. McMahon is the docu-series we need — and deserve — right now
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s an unsettling experience to watch the brand-new, hotly anticipated and much-discussed Netflix docu-series Mr. McMahon, which takes viewers on a sweeping, insider-y journey through the cultural phenomenon of...
Rings of Power series returns with another (somehow still lackluster) season
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Near to this date two years ago, I gave a guarded though mostly positive accounting of the first two episodes of the Amazon original series Rings of Power, which...
