A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Rock and Hard Place,” coming up just as soon as I take care of you and the Key Master… “Adios, papa.” —Nacho The writers of both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are proud to admit how much each show has been …
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Ted Lasso is back for a second season. I wrote about the joy of the series overall last week, and now I’ll be reviewing each episode. Spoiler-filled thoughts on the premiere, “Goodbye, Earl,” coming up just as soon as we discuss Tom Cruise’s hair in Magnolia… When last we left …
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Better Call Saul just concluded its fifth, and best, season. A review of the finale, “Something Unforgivable,” coming up just as soon as I show you the surprise in my frunk… “Am I bad for you?” —Jimmy What if we’re looking at this all wrong? We’ve assumed for a long …
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Holster your six-shooters and hitch your horses: After a two-year hiatus, Westworld is back — only it’s barely recognizable as Westworld anymore. Taking last season’s scattered segments set outside the Delos corporation’s theme-park system and stretching them out to (almost) an entire episode, the sci-fi brain-teaser’s season premiere (“Parce Domine”) …
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A review of The Mandalorian season finale, “Redemption,” coming up just as soon as we make the baby do the magic hands… What a reassuring feeling it is, isn’t it, to be thrilled by the conclusion of a Star Wars story? A week after the release of Rise of the …
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A review of this week’s The Good Place, “Chillaxing,” coming up just as soon as I get Timothée Chalamet to go out into the sun… One of the challenges of writing a show where the story explicitly keeps repeating itself is to find new ways to tell it each time. …
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