Good Cop Bad Cop
Thinking about the all the scary events of the last week, and the contribution pop culture might have made to how we got here.
Category: TV
Me, movies and movie books
So last week I signed a contract with McFarland Publishers for a book, due next year, on Alien Visitors (working title): ET invaders, alien/human romance, friendly aliens, alien superheroes, aliens …
Nanananananana Batwoman!
While it’s far from the worst thing about the pandemic, seeing several CW superhero shows (not to mention the network’s Nancy Drew) have to cut their seasons short is frustrating …
‘Hollywood’ Clumsily Rewrites History
Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee and American Horror Story, has a new seven-episode series up on Netflix, so I gave it a look. Hollywood (co-created with Ian Brennan) turned out to be one of the more frustrating productions I’ve seen in a while. I found it so annoying, in fact, that I’m going to complain about it in detail. [Spoilers] abound.
Not as deep as it thinks: Alex Garland’s Devs (with spoilers)
I doubt I’d bother to devote a whole post here to a series I didn’t care for if Devs wasn’t so convinced of its own depth. In the teaser for …
We Got Movie Sign — for a Little While Longer
Travis points out that Netflix has some of the original Joel and Mike MST3K episodes up for a few more hours. Don’t miss Hobgoblins!
“Save Hitler? That’s not what you do with a time machine!” — SyFy’s 12 Monkeys
Late last year I discovered that Hulu was finally streaming the fourth and final season of SyFy’s 12 Monkeys TV series. In the lag between Christmas and the second half …