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It’s a problem of pacing, I think, but it’s one that’s hard to pin down. This season of Fargo has picked up some…

Star Trek: Discovery has no chill. It’s probably my biggest problem with the show—the way it’s constantly hitting…

One thing that’s always balanced out Fargo’s more self-conscious quirks is the show’s ability to balance oddball…

I spent a lot of time in last week’s reviewing trying to pin down why the first two episodes of this season of Fargo…

Here’s a question for yah: is Fargo (the TV show) actually smart?

“The Lower Decks” is a late season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode with an irresistible premise: what’s it…

Relatively early on in “Star Mort Rickturn Of The Jerry,” Rick has coffee with his daughter. Or his daughter’s…

I’ve been critical of the second half of Rick And Morty’s fourth season, because I’m a small-minded, spiteful man…

I don’t really get Jessica. I mean, I understood her at the start of the show; she was the archetypal crush a kid…

Rick and Morty has gotten increasingly better animated over the years (and it started off fairly strong, if I…

The mightier the villain does not always mean the mightier the hero. Here are 26 fictional characters who met their…

About a third of the way into “Never Ricking Morty,” Rick and Morty kill a man collecting ticket stubs. The dude is…

Every season of Westworld, the show gets worse, and every season, I fall for the nonsense in the first half like it…

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, the 1975 Warner Brothers movie adapting the pulp hero to the big screen, is not very…

If you watch Westworld for the set pieces, “Decoherence” has got some humdingers for you. There’s Maeve, killing…

So, this is the point of the season where I complain that the episodes are too long. Sorry! But it’s true. If Westwor…

Does William’s story matter anymore? The reveal of the true identity of the Man In Black was one of the linchpins of…

Three episodes in, and it’s safe to say that the third season premiere wasn’t a fluke. Westworld has reinvented…

I was hoping for another twist. Something big and absurd and utterly reality breaking. I’d read theories that Alton…

One of Westworld’s biggest weaknesses has always been the distance between set-up and payoff. Take season one. The…