the latter of which has the benefit of being so important historically that it begins many textbooks’ modern TV eras. ButBreaking Badmade its bones quickly, publicly, and with plenty of pizzazz. It entered the TV landscape with just a few episodes of tonally questionable wobbling...
Arguably one of the best TV shows ever made,Breaking Badis a stunning piece of work that every TV aficionado should stream at least once in their life. Following Walter White's journey from insipid chemistry tutor to crystal meth criminal overlord is a fascinating watch in its own right, b...
Sinners– This latest film is from the director of Fruitvale Station and Black Panther and tackles vampires in the old south. I sort of glad that we’re getting to see Black characters tackling Classic Horror movie tropes like Frankenstein, vampires, and the devil, in films. I only wish the...
Soap, a groundbreaking sitcom from the late 70s, cleverly satirized soap opera tropes with its outrageous storylines and larger-than-life characters. The show follows the lives of two sisters and their respective families, the Tates and the Campbells, navigating through infidelity, amnesia, alien ab...
As a quirky sitcom that found humor in the fish-out-of-water premise of aliens integrating into human society, 3rd Rock from the Sun defied conventional TV tropes, offering a fresh perspective on the human experience. The ensemble cast, led by John Lithgow, exhibited impeccable comic timing, ...
commanding the screen and adding resonance to whatBaig calls a "universal story"that's much more than a rehash of teen tropes. "I didn't have those stories growing up, for myself, and so I really wanted that for, like, the teenage me," she told EW. "I really wanted to normalize ...
Fails to hold a candle to the original So don't get me wrong here. Im not a hater off the bat, I don't mind the new art style much, the animation is smooth...but even in the character re-design my main critique of the whole reboot comes in. . . This series in it's attempts...
its subversion of superhero tropes, emotional story beats, and ensemble cast will keep your attention until things really start to pick up from season one episode four, by which point you should be fully hooked. Myreview ofInvincibleseason 1,review ofInvincibleseason 2 part 1, andreview ofInvin...
Forgive me for making all of this sound awesome. It’s not bad, really. It just doesn’t come to life quite like it should. Part of it is how formulaic it is, alluded to above: for every weird detail like a ninja baboon, there are ten lines of dialogue you’ve heard before (sha...
Depicting the conflict between Killface — a put-upon alien seeking world domination – and his nemesis, the arrogant superhero Awesome X, “Frisky Dingo” took the tropes of superhero adventure and turned it into a raucous war of words. “Archer” ...