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Tim Stevens is a freelance writer and therapist from the Nutmeg State, hailing from the home of the World’s Smallest Natural Waterfall. In addition to The Spool, you can read his stuff in CC Magazine, Marvel.com, ComicsVerse, and The New Paris Press. His work has been quoted in Psychology Today, The Atlantic, and MSN Ireland. And yes, he is listing all this to try and impress you.

Full Circle closes the loop a bit too perfectly

By: Tim Stevens

Skilled performances overcome all too convenient plotting in the new Ed Solomon-Steven Soderbergh collaboration.

The Horror of Dolores Roach lacks bite

By: Tim Stevens

The play turned podcast turned Prime Video series is appealing but lacks the killer instinct to become a must-eat…err…see.

Kaboom goes the world but does anyone care?

By: Tim Stevens

Gregg Araki revisits and literalizes the apocalypse, with mixed results.

Unraveling pop-culture one thread at a time

The Spool is an irreverent, informative source for film and television coverage, focused on diverse, thoughtful opinions that seek out a greater understanding of the media we love.

A delayed Afterparty Season 2 still deserves an RSVP

By: Tim Stevens

An awkward opener and a few months late arrival do little to dampen AppleTV+’s extremely fun murder-mystery series.

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Season 4 sends the spy out as he came – reliable if unremarkable

By: Tim Stevens

Prime Video’s goodbye to John Krasinski’s Ryan is another season of solid spycraft storytelling.

Idris Elba & a gimmick can only elevate Hijack so high

By: Tim Stevens

The AppleTV+ thriller series plays like a rainy day TBS movie stretched over seven episodes.

Cruel Summer Season 2 sees the series take things a little slower this year

By: Tim Stevens

Perhaps the heat is getting to the Freeform series as its second outing remains silly overblown fun, but at a lesser pace.

The Crowded Room echoes with unfulfilled promise

By: Tim Stevens

Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried do the work but are hamstrung by cliché and overvaluing surprise over character development.

Come to the Moulin Rouge! where artifice reveals authenticity

By: Tim Stevens

Baz Luhrmann’s mashup musical piles on the spectacle on its way to embracing true love.

Keeping it Platonic and chaotic

By: Tim Stevens

Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen reteam for a fun, but uneven AppleTV+ series about friends who may bring out the worst in each other. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch As a group, humanity has spent entirely too much time asking, “Can men and women ever be friends without sex getting in the way.” Thankfully, Platonic, by ... Keeping it Platonic and chaotic

High Desert gives Patricia Arquette the stage and wisely steps aside

By: Tim Stevens

AppleTV+’s comedy-noir-recovery drama achieves uneven success thanks to its star.

City on Fire burns intensely, if nonsensically

By: Tim Stevens

AppleTV+’s adaptation of the novel updates the era but fails to wrangle its sprawling narrative.

Strong performances serve Class of ‘09, but can’t fully protect audiences

By: Tim Stevens

Brian Tyree Henry and others give FX’s sci-fi FBI drama a clue but not enough to close the case.

AppleTV+’s new sci-fi series worth Silo-ing with

By: Tim Stevens

The Rebecca Ferguson-starring vehicle casts a compelling spell.

The Diplomat negotiates that classic good TV feeling

By: Tim Stevens

Netflix’s new international politics drama excels thanks to excellent performances from the likes of Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell.

Mrs. Davis is appealingly weird but emotionally inert

By: Tim Stevens

Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof step out of their comfort zones with a Peacock series long on strangeness and short of human connections.

Netflix provides evidence Obsession can only lead to bad ends

By: Tim Stevens

The streamer’s new attempt at an erotic thriller series occasionally titillates but can’t find a real emotional anchor. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch Certain events dig so deep into our culture that they define many subsequent examples of the form. Watergate has led to decades of any possibly notable scandal receiving a -gate suffix. Any ... Netflix provides evidence Obsession can only lead to bad ends

Slip never stumbles

By: Tim Stevens

Roku’s new series delivers a surprisingly poetic take on multidimensional longing and acceptance.

The Last Thing He Told Me is a good tale

By: Tim Stevens

AppleTV+’s adaptation of the best-seller doesn’t reinvent the wheel but offers consistently strong storytelling.

Beef gives the audience plenty to chew on

By: Tim Stevens

Netflix’s new series is its most significant television success in some time.

Schmigadoon! Season 2 sends the series into its “changing times” era

By: Tim Stevens

AppleTV+’s musical comedy leaps into more complex musical pastiches with mixed results.

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