Review: Don’t Bother Getting Up for “The Morning Show”
Apple+’s new drama about the cutthroat world of TV news looks good but suffers from derivative, clumsy writing. Sunday’s New York Times featured an op-ed from none other than Mark Zuckerberg, insisting that Facebook’s curious insistence on treating websites with names like hillarydid911.freedomguns.biz as legitimate news sources is helping to improve journalism. It’s sobering to ... Review: Don’t Bother Getting Up for “The Morning Show”
Watchmen Premiere Recap: “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
Damon Lindelof stuns with a tight, incisive continuation of the impossible-to-film comic book. The prospect of making a Watchmen TV series, even on HBO, is a dicey one, to say the least. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal deconstruction of the superhero genre was long thought impossible to film, and (depending on who you ask) ... Watchmen Premiere Recap: “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
Living With Yourself Review: Twice the Paul Rudd, Half the Insight
Timothy Greenberg’s leaden, frustrating series is too lackadaisical to explore its clone-centric premise. Living with Yourself is the latest in Netflix’s never-ending onslaught of original content; unfortunately, it’s also another example of how the streaming service seems to value quantity over quality. As the first show for head writer Timothy Greenberg (Peabody award winner and ... Living With Yourself Review: Twice the Paul Rudd, Half the Insight
Review: “Transparent: Musicale Finale” is a Transcendent Closer
Even if you haven’t been keeping up with the Pfeffermens, the finale of Amazon’s flagship series is a spectacle worth watching. Viewers of Amazon’s Transparent have been following Maura Pfeffermen and her family over the last four seasons. The series following an older person’s transition and the impact on her family has garnered almost universal ... Review: “Transparent: Musicale Finale” is a Transcendent Closer