A review of this week’s Watchmen, “A God Walks Into Abar,” coming up just as soon as the chicken and the egg come at the very same time… It is the spring of 1988. I am reading Watchmen for the first time, in a thick trade paperback collection I brought …
Read More »'El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie' Recap: Jesse Pinkman Is Born Again
Jesse Pinkman is back in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which Netflix released on Friday. I already published my spoiler-free thoughts on the film, and now it’s time to go old-school recapping, like I did for every episode of Breaking Bad, with full spoilers for El Camino coming up …
Read More »'Big Little Lies' Recap: Things Fall Apart
A review of “The End of the World,” this week’s Big Little Lies, coming up just as soon as I hire a child psychologist who dresses up as Little Bo Peep… The title “The End of the World” most literally refers to Renata and Gordon‘s daughter Amabella‘s panic attack in …
Read More »'Killing Eve' Recap: The Most Dangerous Game
A review of “Wide Awake,” this week’s Killing Eve, coming up just as soon as we run out of good safe words… As Season Two has pivoted into this unlikely story of Villanelle being turned into an unofficial British intelligence operative, we must ask a two-part question: 1) Does Eve …
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