TV amp; Movies Recaps

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth, “Emergence,” now streaming on Hulu. The amount of time it takes a Xenomorph to gestate from face-hugger to chest-burster to full-sized monster has varied from film to film in the Alien series. In some movies, the chest-burster can take …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth, now streaming on Hulu. After last week’s flashback to all the poor decisions that killed the crew of the Maginot, “The Fly” brings us back to the present-day action at Neverland, where various adults, synthetics, and eyeball monsters conspire …

In the new comedic mystery series The Lowdown, Ethan Hawke plays writer Lee Raybon, who runs a Tulsa used bookstore by day, but cares more about his sideline as a “truthstorian” — a pretentiously on-brand way of telling people that he’s a reporter. Lee is a dogged investigator who has, …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth, now streaming on Hulu. In the early seasons of Fargo, Noah Hawley was careful to get only so close to the specifics of the Coen brothers’ film. Yes, Molly Solverson, the first season’s hero, was a polite female cop …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth, “Observation,” now streaming on Hulu. After Wendy and her brother Joe spent most of last week’s installment out of action, both are up and around for “Observation,” the episode that in many ways feels like the real start of …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth, “Metamorphosis,” now streaming on Hulu. Midway through “Metamorphosis,” Boy Kavalier and his faithful synthetic sidekick Kirsh get into a debate about the wisdom of bringing the creatures retrieved from the Maginot wreckage back to Prodigy’s Neverland headquarters. Kirsh not …

This post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Alien: Earth, now streaming on Hulu.The Alien movies are filled with so many ideas about what their future society is like that it feels close to (chest) bursting. But because most of the films are first and foremost suspense stories …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Last of Us, now streaming on Max. In a way, referring to this as the Season Two finale of The Last of Us feels like a misnomer. Yes, it is the final installment that we will be getting this year …

This post contains spoilers for the final three episodes of Andor, now streaming on Disney+. In the concluding episode of this season, and thus of Andor as a series, Vel and Kleya discuss some of the terrible things they’ve had to do to keep the rebellion alive, including Kleya’s decision …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Last of Us, now streaming on Max. This second season of The Last of Us has been simultaneously more complicated and simpler. There are more ongoing characters, between the gang from Jackson and the people in Seattle. And cordyceps itself …