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Hawkeye “Partners, Am I Right?” Continues to Cement the Show’s Heart

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Hawkeye’s “Partners, Am I Right?” continues to cement the show’s heart by exploring sincere moments of conversations and parallels to Vormir.

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‘Only Murders in the Building’ Is the True Crime Podcast Parody We Didn’t Know We Needed

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Crip mornings, leaves changing, cozier outfits, and a murder mystery? Need I say more? Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building has all the autumn vibes, and the opening credits alone should be enough to convince you. Oh yeah, and it’s also the true crime podcast parody breakdown we didn’t know we needed. No but seriously, there is just something about watching mysteries in the fall that hits right. And okay, I hear you, it technically isn’t fall until September 22, but in this house, it’s fall starting September 1. It might not feel like it with most of us still

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Final Season Starts Off Strong With “The Good Ones” and “The Lake House”

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“The Good Ones and The Lake House” Spoilers Ahead Brooklyn Nine-Nine has always been the show to take stands because it mattered, and never because it was performative. This show didn’t choose diversity to check off boxes and get brownie points, but because celebrating humanity in a way that was authentic was always its priority.  And thereby, Brooklyn Nine-Nine couldn’t ignore the atrocities against Black men and women in 2020 (along with the systemic racism long before that). It couldn’t ignore the fact that as police officers, they are part of the problem and needed to make their understanding clear.

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Loki 1×05 “Journey Into Mystery” Highlights

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For starters, I’d like to take a moment to complain about the fact that “Journey Into Mystery” is the penultimate episode and that means next week is the finale, which I just boldly reject. I want to watch and unpack Loki every week. I don’t want it to ever end. I have also decided that I just no longer understand the concept of time travel and neither does the Marvel Cinematic Universe—I say this with love. What I do understand however, is that quiet moments of character development will always be at the forefront of an excellent episode, and this

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Shadow and Bone 1×08 “No Mourners” Review

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“No Mourners” concludes Shadow and Bone’s first season almost as we’d expect it, a little rushed in its climax, but it gives us incredible moments of character development, so you’ll hear no complaints from me. Choice is a predominant, ongoing theme throughout the course of this season, and the finale reiterates its importance with reflection and moments full of loud whispers. It sets up the oncoming arcs for our favorite characters with storylines that work and feel incredibly natural in how they’re developing.  Alina Starkov is the heroine of the season, the Saint, the Sun Summoner, and the one whose choices matter

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Shadow and Bone 1×07 “The Unsea” Review

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As far as season penultimate episodes go, “The Unsea” is easily on my list of favorites. It isn’t flawless by any means, but it’s a magical showcase of vulnerability while focusing on the importance of freedom. It’s the episode that sets almost every dynamic up remarkably while still leaving a lot of room to dissect the grey areas that play into the complexities of these characters.  There’s never inherently good or evil in shows within this genre, which make the analytical scope of working through them so large and inviting, it’s a thrill for me. And surprisingly, in an episode

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Shadow and Bone 1×02 “We’re All Someone’s Monster” Review

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“We’re All Someone’s Monster” opens up with a flashback to Mal and Alina’s Grisha test indicating that they ran and hid because Alina didn’t want to be separated from him in case she was Grisha, and that’s just precious. We’ll keep saying this, but this friendship is a beautiful thing and so damn pure, it’s a solid way to start the episode and paralleling it with General Kirigan’s (Ben Barnes) introduction as he asks Alina who she is. When Alina can’t say anything more than the fact that she’s a cartographer, Kirigan asks Zoya to explain what happened, which leads

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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier 1×06 “One World, One People” Highlights

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“One World, One People” concludes The Falcon and The Winter Soldier 1×06, except this clearly isn’t a series finale because nothing is wrapped in the kind of bow we’d prefer so, I suppose we shall now have to wait to hear what’s happening because what!? (Marvel has confirmed there will be a Captain America 4 film starring Anthony Mackie, so that could be it.) That said, I’m not going to get into the fact that everything apart from Sam Wilson’s arc felt rushed and incoherent, executed in such a way that I just don’t even want to bother trying to

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