86 Best Drama Releases on Amazon Prime Video
Fallout
SimilarBlack Scorpion, Dark Angel, Dark Skies,
Earth 2 Knots Landing, LBX Girls, Mortal Kombat: Conquest, Noah's Arc,
Planet of the Apes Sonic the Hedgehog, Sweet Tooth, The 100, The Tribe, ThunderCats, Thunderstone, World's End Harem,
Few titles in the world of video game RPGs are as stylistically significant and cherished by fans as Interplay Entertainment’s Fallout. First published in 1997, the post-apocalyptic RPG has spawned countless sequels (including the acclaimed Fallout: New Vegas) and garnered millions of devoted fans through meticulous worldbuilding and its (now signature) atomic age-inspired retrofuturist aesthetic.
Thanks to shows like The Last of Us proving naysayers wrong and paving the way for high-budget, critically acclaimed video game adaptations, Prime Video has joined forces with Bethesda to bring the Fallout franchise to the small screen with an eight-episode series of the same name. Bolstered by source material with a baked-in sense of aesthetics and a pair of winning leads in Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins, Fallout is a clever, twisted apocalyptic odyssey that soars as both a video game adaptation and a standalone series.
Starring Purnell, Goggins, and Aaron Clifton Moten, Fallout follows Lucy (Purnell), an idealistic, sheltered “Vault Dweller” who has spent her entire life in an idyllic vault built to keep wealthy Americans happy and healthy in the event of nuclear devastation. When surface raiders disrupt her vault’s peaceful existence and kidnap her father, Lucy is forced to leave the safety of Vault 33, encountering all manner of unlikely enemies and allies along the way. Continue Reading →
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
SimilarBates Motel, Black Scorpion, La Femme Nikita, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Love You Just as You Are, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, More than Blue: The Series,
Planet of the Apes The Dead Zone, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,
Amazon’s excellent reboot seems more interested in interrogating Bond movies and television domestic dramas than its thin source material.
So, remember that movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Not the Alfred Hitchcock Mr. and Mrs. Smith from 1941, the Doug Liman one about the two married assassins that end up trying to kill one another? (No, Scott Bakula was in the television show from the 90s about two married assassins called Mr. and Mrs. Smith.) This is the 2005 movie with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Remember all the tabloid stories about their relationship? Great! Do you remember the film itself? Kinda? Yeah, that’s exactly the kind of movie it was. Neither good nor bad, Mr. and Mrs. Smith modestly cleared the “watchable” bar mostly on the backs of its cute premise, Pitt and Jolie’s magnetism, and competent (if unremarkable) direction.
It is, in that respect, a perfect candidate for a reboot - just good enough for you to wish someone had put in the work to make it better. Now, almost twenty years later, someone has. Continue Reading →
American Horror Story
A quick overview of the high highs and middling disappointments in horror this year.
With the social media app formerly known as Twitter now a shell of its former self, horror fans have been forced to return to Facebook to continue such interminable debates as “What does or doesn’t qualify something as ‘horror’?” “What the hell is ‘elevated horror,’ anyway?” “Are remakes inherently bad?” “Have horror movies gotten too ‘woke’?” “Were we wrong for letting women make horror?”
In a year when both David Gordon Green and M. Night Shyamalan released new movies, the horror discourse was especially spicy, and that’s before we get to the really interesting stories, like the surprise viral success of Skinamarink, which, with the way time seems to be passing nowadays, feels like it was released five years ago. Both indie and mainstream horror made daring choices, not looking to appeal to as broad a range of audiences as possible, and treating the genre as a serious art form, as opposed to just a machine that prints money. But the biggest surprise came in October, with the release of Saw X, the tenth film in a seemingly unkillable franchise, which ended up being one of the best, most coherent entries in the entire series. Continue Reading →
Reacher
Similar2Moons: The Series, A Respectable Trade,
Agatha Christie's Poirot Alias Grace, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Anna Karenina, Återkomsten, Babel, Blackeyes, CSI: Miami, Dark Winds, Dead by Sunset, Des, Dexter, Fallen, Fate/Apocrypha, Fearless, Further Tales of the City, Game of Thrones, Golden Years, Gossip Girl, HAPPY!, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Intruders, Jack the Ripper, Jewels, KONOSUBA – An Explosion on This Wonderful World!, La Mante, Life on Mars,
Little Women Lupin, Luther, M*A*S*H, Millennium, Miss Marple: Nemesis, Moeder, waarom leven wij?, Monarch of the Glen, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,
Planet of the Apes Power Rangers,
Pride and Prejudice Princess Principal,
Sherlock Holmes Soul Land 2: The Peerless Tang Clan, Spies of Warsaw, Super Pumped, Tales from the Neverending Story, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The 100, The Alienist, The Beat, The Buccaneers, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These, The Lost World, The Moon Embracing the Sun, The Serial Killer's Wife, The Shining, The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, The Strain, The Sun Also Rises, The Wimbledon Poisoner, Tientsin Mystic, Tira, Troubles, Unorthodox, Unterleuten: The Torn Village, Wedding Impossible, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Witchcraft, World's End Harem, Wycliffe,
The Prime series remains its big, fun, very violent self.
Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson), the “has toothbrush, will travel” man, has returned to television and not a moment too soon. Reacher Season 2 is exactly the kind of low-commitment viewing one craves as the year ends and the holidays overtake everyone’s lives. While a large, jolly man busies himself filling many of our stockings, who better to enjoy than a large, angry man knocking bad guys out of their socks? Especially when, like this time, it’s personal!
Reacher and Neagly (Maria Sten, back from Season 1 and fully second on the callsheet this time, thankfully) first met when they were members of the 110, an investigative military police unit. As seen in flashback, the group is the last time Reacher had anything approaching a stable group of friends. In the present day, several team members have gone missing, suggesting that perhaps someone is targeting them. Reacher connects with Neagly and the two join up with the only other two 110 members they can find. O’Donnell (Shaun Sipos) is the unit clown and womanizer turned family man and inside the beltway fixer. Dixon (Serinda Swan) is a forensic accountant/warrior who shares an obvious but unconsummated crush with Reacher. Continue Reading →
The Holdovers
SimilarApocalypse Now (1979), Brazil (1985), Donnie Brasco (1997), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Fargo (1996), Forrest Gump (1994), Full Metal Jacket (1987), GoodFellas (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016), Monster (2003), Mystic River (2003), Oldboy (2003), Scrooge (1951), Shrek the Third (2007), Solaris (1972), The Apartment (1960), The Departed (2006), The Fisher King (1991), The Party 2 (1982), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Silent Partner (1978), To Die For (1995), Wonder Boys (2000),
Watch afterAmerican Fiction (2023), Anatomy of a Fall (2023),
Barbie (2023) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Poor Things (2023), Society of the Snow (2023), The Killer (2023), The Marvels (2023),
StarringGillian Vigman,
StudioMiramax,
After stumbling with Downsizing, Alexander Payne bounces back with a gentle & witty comedy-drama.
The artist Dmitry Samarov one said to me that the ratio of good to bad late periods in an artist's life was depressing to consider. For every Sir Edward William Elgar there was an Eric Clapton (my example, not his), and that it was rare to see someone sharpen as they aged. Now, I like Dmitry and certainly respect his opinion, but I can’t help but feel that when film overtook painting as the dominant artwork that people engage with, the ratio shifted towards bizarre experimentation and welcome self-reflection as much as dull self reflection.
Take for instance 62 year old Alexander Payne, who, after the biggest disaster of his career (2017’s confused parable Downsizing), has started his fourth decade as a director by leaning hard back into what he knew (and what the royal “we” enjoyed) and rediscovered himself with The Holdovers, a movie no one can seem to stop comparing to Hal Ashby. No mean feat, of course, but even that sells its virtues short. This is no mere homage, no mere return to form, this is the movie that Payne’s been hoping to make since his 90s heyday, a film that earns both its jaundiced gaze and its catharsis. Continue Reading →
Songbirds
Similar2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 2046 (2004),
Blade Runner (1982) Brazil (1985), Desert Hearts (1985), Die Hard (1988), I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016), Mars Attacks! (1996), Metropolis (1927), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Random Harvest (1942), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Strange Days (1995), The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Twelve Monkeys (1995),
Watch afterAquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Napoleon (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023), Thanksgiving (2023), The Marvels (2023), The Nun II (2023), Wonka (2023),
StudioLionsgate,
Despite a challenging premise and an overlong runtime, the Hunger Games prequel makes the most of the hand it’s been dealt.
The character of Coriolanus Snow is an odd choice for a Hunger Games hero. In the original books and films, as played by screen giant Donald Sutherland, Snow was a cold-hearted, cruel dictator clearly meant to echo real world fascist leaders. Here, in the prequel story The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (say that five times fast), Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) is just a sensitive, emotional teen dreamboat whose main goal is to provide for his family in the wake of the violent revolution that tore apart Panem, the country formerly known as the United States of America.
It’s difficult to understand why author Suzanne Collins, who wrote the novel Songbirds is based on, made the decision to try to humanize a violent authoritarian when a core theme of the original Hunger Games books and movies was lashing back at systemic oppression. Nonetheless, director Francis Lawrence (Catching Fire, I Am Legend) and his enthusiastic cast of talented performers make the best of the rather thematically confused story arc they’ve been given, turning in one of the most exciting, emotionally arresting entries in the franchise. Continue Reading →
Nebraska
Long overshadowed by Sideways, we’re giving this understated dramedy its due for depicting Midwest with the specificity Hollywood rarely gives it.
Alexander Payne’s Nebraska is as unassuming as the regular Midwestern folk it depicts. Even though this small, quiet, black-and-white comedy was flooded with nominations during the 2013 awards season it won almost none of them. Ten years on, it remains overshadowed by Payne’s more popular works like Sideways and Election. But this odd little dramedy is not only one of Payne’s finest films to date, it’s also his one true love letter to his home state of Nebraska and the Midwest itself.
Elderly alcoholic Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) has fallen for a Publisher’s Clearinghouse–style scam and is convinced he’s won a million dollars. Determined to collect the cash in person, son David (Will Forte) ignores his mother and brother’s pleas and agrees to drive him all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska. On the way, the pair get waylaid in Woody’s hometown of Hawthorne, giving David a glimpse of not just who his father is, but how a place and the people in it shaped him. Continue Reading →
Saltburn
SimilarBen-Hur (1959),
Bend It Like Beckham (2002) Billy Elliot (2000), Brazil (1985), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Copying Beethoven (2006), Crash (1996), Desert Hearts (1985), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Fargo (1996), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Klute (1971), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Lost in Translation (2003), M*A*S*H (1970), Mars Attacks! (1996), My Own Private Idaho (1991), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Paris Can Wait (2016),
Primal Fear (1996) Rope (1948), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Shrek (2001), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Strange Days (1995), Talk to Her (2002), The Big Blue (1988), The Fisher King (1991), The Holiday (2006), The Last Emperor (1987), The Tin Drum (1979), To Die For (1995), Vertigo (1958),
Watch afterLeave the World Behind (2023), Poor Things (2023), Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023), Society of the Snow (2023), Thanksgiving (2023), Wonka (2023),
StudioMRC,
With her first film, Promising Young Woman, writer-director Emerald Fennell took a storyline that was essentially a cloddish-but-glossy retread of such female-driven revenge sagas as Ms .45 and I Spit on Your Grave, infused it with insights regarding gender issues that would barely have passed muster in a 100-level college class and somehow rode it to inexplicable praise and an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Continue Reading →
The Burial
SimilarAlmost Famous (2000), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Anna and the King (1999), Apollo 13 (1995),
Boys Don't Cry (1999) Brubaker (1980), Donnie Brasco (1997), Erin Brockovich (2000), Freedom Writers (2007), Gandhi (1982), GoodFellas (1990), Gridiron Gang (2006), Manhattan (1979), Mississippi Burning (1988), Monster (2003), Schindler's List (1993), The Elephant Man (1980), The Last Emperor (1987), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Straight Story (1999), Titanic (1997),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), The Equalizer 3 (2023), The Killer (2023),
StarringAlan Ruck,
Whenever a crowd pleasing movie hits theaters or streaming, people lament, “They don’t make ‘em like they used to.” Often, these people refer to middle-of-the-road movies from the 80s and 90s, the type of film that would play on cable television in the middle of a Sunday afternoon, something that people watch over and over again, simply because it makes them feel lighter. The Burial, the new courtroom drama from writer/director Maggie Betts, falls firmly into this category. It’s dad-fare, set in 1995 when it also likely would’ve had mainstream success in popular culture. Continue Reading →
Sayen: La cazadora
At the risk of making a "getting a lot of Sorcerer vibes from this" guy out of myself, The Hunted—William Friedkin's 2003 old-master-hunts-rogue-student thriller really does make for a fascinating counterpart to his earlier men-on-a-desperate-mission masterwork. Both delve into the lives of damaged, forlorn, isolated men on perilous quests for deliverance. And both of those quests lead deep into madness. Both pointedly contrast man-made, flame-choked hellscapes (Sorcerer's exploding oil well, The Hunted's secret mission amidst the Kosovo War) with the vast, amoral green of the deep forest (Columbia and Oregon, respectively). Both turn on setpieces that thrill while maintaining a grounded (if not necessarily "realistic") feel and weave surreality in with care. Continue Reading →
Gen V
SimilarAstro Boy, Batfink, Batman, Batman Beyond, Batman: The Animated Series, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, Birds of Prey, Black Scorpion, Blitz!! Strada 5, Captain Midnight, CSI: Miami, Cybersix, Deadly Class, DEAR GAGA, Dinner Mate, Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, Flash Gordon, Flower Boy Next Door, GARO, Gekisou Sentai Carranger, GoGo Sentai Boukenger, Golden Bat, Harley Quinn, Hina Logic: From Luck & Logic, Inazuman, Infini-T Force, Itaewon Class,
Justice League Justice League Action, Knots Landing, Koro Sensei Quest!, Loonatics Unleashed, Love, Victor, Madan Senki Ryukendo, Marvel's Rocket & Groot, Marvel's Spider-Man, Mirai Sentai Timeranger, Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, Mortal Kombat: Conquest, Naomi, Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, Power Rangers, Power Rangers Dino Force Brave, Raven's Home, Ravenswood, Resident Alien, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, Silver Surfer, Space Sentinels, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, Static Shock, Super Crooks, Superman & Lois, Tabitha, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Avengers: United They Stand, The Batman, The Flash, The Incredible Hulk, The Mobile Cop Jiban, The Originals, The Sarah Jane Adventures, The Sound of Your Heart, Ultraman, Ultraman Ace, Ultraman Tiga, X-Men: Evolution,
Watch afterAhsoka, Invincible,
Loki Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, ONE PIECE,
Secret Invasion The Continental: From the World of John Wick, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Wheel of Time, Twisted Metal,
The Boys is good. Often, it is excellent. However, the Eric Kripke-created adaptation of the Garth Ennis-Darick Robertson-created comic book series sometimes overindulged in juvenilia and “is this too edgy for you, square?” baiting. To be fair, that isn’t exactly unfaithful to the source material. Ennis frequently vacillates between scathingly insightful critiques of the human condition and truckloads of dick jokes (see also, Preacher). Continue Reading →
A Million Miles Away
SimilarA Christmas Carol (1938), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Apocalypse Now (1979), As It Is in Heaven (2004), Ben-Hur (1959),
Blade Runner (1982) Blood and Chocolate (2007),
Boys Don't Cry (1999) Brubaker (1980), Contact (1997), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), Donnie Brasco (1997), East of Eden (1955), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Erin Brockovich (2000), Finding Forrester (2000), Forrest Gump (1994), Gridiron Gang (2006), I've Always Liked You (2016),
Jackie Brown (1997) Just Cause (1995), Manhattan (1979), Metropolis (1927), Monster (2003),
Primal Fear (1996) Rebecca (1940) Schindler's List (1993), Stand by Me (1986), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), The Elementary Particles (2006), The Green Mile (1999), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), The Irishman (2019), The Last Emperor (1987),
The Name of the Rose (1986) The Outsiders (1983), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Road (2009), The Silent Partner (1978), The Straight Story (1999), The Tin Drum (1979), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Wonder Boys (2000),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Blue Beetle (2023), Elemental (2023), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023),
StudioMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
A Million Miles Away is one of those movies that live in the meaty part of the decent curve. Far too sturdy and well-made to be called bad. Too rote and predictable to really call good. It tells the true story of José Hernández (Michael Pena), an unquestionably inspiring man who did an impossibly difficult thing under impossibly difficult circumstances. Continue Reading →
Wilderness
Similar2Moons: The Series,
Agatha Christie's Poirot Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Anna Karenina, Cleopatra, Dead by Sunset, Fallen, Fearless, House of Cards, Itaewon Class, Jewels, M*A*S*H, Monarch of the Glen, Mr. Mercedes, No Escape, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,
Planet of the Apes Pride and Prejudice Sám vojak v poli,
Sherlock Holmes Spies of Warsaw, Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, Super Pumped, Tales from the Neverending Story, The Alienist, The Buccaneers, The Lost World, The Moon Embracing the Sun, The Wimbledon Poisoner, Tientsin Mystic, Unorthodox, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Witchcraft, Wycliffe,
Watch afterAhsoka, Fleabag, Gen V, Hijack, Only Murders in the Building,
The Witcher
Some find entertainment without characters to like a difficult slog. Those individuals would do well to avoid Wilderness, a series almost entirely devoid of likable major characters. The one possible exception of note, the lead couple’s neighbor Ash (Morgana Van Peebles), will ultimately depend on how individuals feel about the morality of blatantly hitting on a married woman who isn’t exactly in the best headspace. Continue Reading →
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Blue Beetle (2023), Elemental (2023), Shortcomings (2023), The Marvels (2023),
StudioMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
(Editor's note: A previous version of this review included the full name of the presumptive real-life inspiration for the film; upon a subsequent request to maintain their privacy, we have removed that sentence.) Continue Reading →
The Wheel of Time
Similar2Moons: The Series, A Dance to the Music of Time,
Agatha Christie's Poirot Ah! My Goddess, Amazing Stories, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Bodies, Brimstone, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cybersix, Des, Fate/Apocrypha, Fearless, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe,
Hilda Furacão House of Cards, I Dream of Jeannie, In the Land of Leadale, Jewels,
Little Women Loveless, Lupin, M*A*S*H, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Monarch of the Glen, Mortal Kombat: Conquest, Mr. Mercedes, Out of This World,
Planet of the Apes Pride and Prejudice Santa Evita,
Sherlock Holmes Spies of Warsaw, Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, Super Pumped, Tales from the Neverending Story, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, The Alienist, The Chestnut Man, The Dawn of the Witch, The Family Game, The Lost World, The Serial Killer's Wife, The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, The Strain, The Three-Body Problem, Tientsin Mystic, Tira, Unorthodox, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Wycliffe,
Big-budget fantasy lovers have reason to celebrate this week with Amazon Studio’s The Wheel of Time Season 2's debut. With some careful tweaking by Showrunner Rafe Judkins, Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy of feminine magic and quests of destiny came to life in an impressive if uneven first season. Now, the stakes are higher, the dangers subtler, and the ever-expanding cast of characters more compelling. Continue Reading →
High-Rise
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
Landscape with Invisible Hand
Similar2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 9 Songs (2004), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Annie Hall (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979),
Blade Runner (1982) Boys Don't Cry (1999) Contact (1997), East of Eden (1955), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991),
Jackie Brown (1997) Manhattan (1979), Mars Attacks! (1996), Mary Poppins (1964), Metropolis (1927), Predator (1987), Random Harvest (1942), Solaris (1972), Stalker (1979), The Elementary Particles (2006),
The Name of the Rose (1986) The Outsiders (1983), The Science of Sleep (2006), The Silent Partner (1978), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), To Die For (1995), War of the Worlds (2005),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023), Shortcomings (2023), The Equalizer 3 (2023),
StudioMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
Cory Finley is obsessed with money. His characters have nice things or want them. They live in beautiful houses or enviously plot to get them. Even in the year 2036, with aliens living on (or, more precisely, about two miles above) planet Earth, people still fret over money and try to make scads of it. That’s the state of things in his latest, Landscape with Invisible Hand. It’s a title with the same bespoke aestheticism as the stuffed ocelots and oversized chess pieces his characters own. It feels seemingly designed to scare off less curious viewers. While the film has an awful lot of plot, the undergirding is the same. As in his 2017 debut Thoroughbreds, his follow-up Bad Education, and even his episodes of the abysmal miniseries WeCrashed, the drama comes from the idea of what money does to the soul. Continue Reading →
Down Terrace
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
Good Omens
SimilarAgatha Christie's Poirot Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, American Horror Story, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Dexter, Fate/Apocrypha, Fearless, Game of Thrones, Gossip Girl,
Hilda Furacão HIStory In the Land of Leadale, Jewels,
Little Women Madan Senki Ryukendo, Mr. Mercedes, Ninja Sentai Kakuranger,
Planet of the Apes Pride and Prejudice Sherlock Holmes Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, Tales from the Neverending Story, The Lost World, The Moon Embracing the Sun, The Shining, Wycliffe,
StarringJon Hamm,
The 2019 adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s 1990 novel Good Omens was a charming show that succeeded in translating the book’s strengths and weaknesses to the small screen. It was clever like the book, with an ingenious plot (what if there had been a mix-up at the hospital and the Antichrist went home with the wrong family) that parodied The Omen while conjuring an apocalyptic tale all its about an angel and demon whose millennials-long rivalry grew from mutual antagonism, to grudging respect, and finally admiration and even a kind of love. But it also carried over the book’s weaker elements, its wonky pacing, plurality of uninteresting characters, and the fact that the first two thirds of the story is essentially table setting for the final third. Continue Reading →
The Horror of Dolores Roach
SimilarAmerican Horror Story, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Florida Man, From, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Lupin, Tales from the Crypt, The Strain, The Twilight Zone,
Watch afterFoundation, Invincible,
On a fundamental level, The Horror of Dolores Roach confirms that old chestnut, “You can never go home again.” The titular Dolores Roach (Justina Machado) tries it twice over the course of the limited series—adapted from a Gimlet podcast which, itself, was adapted from an off-Broadway play—and each time finds an increasingly hostile environment has overtaken the “home” she knew. Continue Reading →