Archive for the ‘Reviews of TV shows’ Category
Love, Death & Robots (season 4)
{3.5/5} “I can’t plot total world domination on an empty stomach.” Love, Death & Robots season 4, aired in 2025 In “The Other Large Thing” Sanchez the cat plans to rule the world but without opposable thumbs his plan lacks practicality — then his owners get a robot. In “Spider Rose” a woman alone in […]
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (season 1)
{4.5/5} “If Starfleet was willing to acknowledge a mistake and correct it then Starfleet is a living thing, capable of growth and change.” Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1, aired in 2026 Nahla separated a mother and child when the mother broke the law. She was under orders but she decided those orders were wrong […]
Stranger Things (season 5)
{5/5} “I was looking for answers in somebody else. But I had all the answers. I just needed to stop being so… scared. Scared of who I really was. Once I did that, I felt so free. It’s like I could fly.” — Robin Stranger Things season 5, aired in 2025 Many residents of Hawkins […]
Not Dead Yet (season 1)
{4.5/5} “‘This is a dear friend of my family, Alistair Banister. And before anyone asks, yes, Banister of the handrails fortune.’ ‘Well, it’s nice to meet you. Thank you for helping me stay on the stairs.’” Not Dead Yet season 1, aired in 2023 Nell has been away in England for 5 years with her […]
Reboot (season 1)
{4.5/5} “‘I like this idea, but are people still doing reboots?’ ‘Let’s see, Fuller House, Saved by the Bell, iCarly, Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl.’ ‘Party of Five, Party Down, One Day at a Time.’ ‘Boy Meets World, How I Met Your Father, The Wonder Years.’ ‘Battlestar Galactica.’ ‘Doogie Houser, The Odd Couple, Perry Mason, Hawaii […]
Forever (season 1)
{5/5} “Atonement can take many forms: a heartfelt apology, a grand gesture, a silent prayer, or something more complex, more grey, more difficult to decipher. And while it’s true that no amount of atonement can ever change the past, it does have the power to heal us, to restore relationships and connections we thought were […]
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 5)
{5/5} “Like every other parent, I spend sleepless nights imagining what my kids are going to say about me to their psychiatrists. ‘She wasn’t home.’ ‘She missed my baseball game.’ ‘She made me listen to her tight ten for a week before she opened in Toledo and then had us heckle her for three hours […]
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 4)
{5/5} “I want revenge. And I’m talking real revenge, not the ‘Hey, I got you a lifetime subscription to The Watchtower’ kind of revenge, but Shakespearean, blood-soaked, painful, soul-crushing revenge. I will dig out my high school clarinet and play klezmer music next door to you 24 hours a day. I will sneak into your […]
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 3)
{5/5} “‘How does it feel, Abe?’ ‘Well, I never imagined they would publish the piece this quickly. With hardly any editing. It’s wonderful.’ ‘I meant to be holding your grandson.’ ‘Well, that’s good too.’” — Mohel Rosenbaum & Abe The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 3, aired in 2019 Midge has fun performing for the army, […]
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 2)
{5/5} “‘Are you going to row?’ ‘No. Are you?’ ‘No. The boy rows.’ ‘I don’t row.’ ‘What do you mean you don’t row? Everybody rows.’ ‘Then go ahead and row.’ ‘The boy rows.’ ‘Not this boy.’ ‘Pick up that oar.’ ‘It was your idea to get into a rowboat.’” — Midge & Benjamin The Marvelous […]