By the end of the first season, the familiar sci-fi/horror tropes that served as a promising setup have become a stronger prison than its isolated setting. Where tension should be building, the story instead begins to run out of steam, with each new threat and cliffhanger somehow less ...
Why You Should Watch:If you like gothic heroines and gothic romance, Buffy is the gothic fantasy series for you. LikeAngel, it mostly takes place in the modern-day, but there are numerous period flashbacks. The show is heavily inspired by gothic genre tropes such as darkness and shadows, a...
5 minutes at the end of each episode where the case is actually moved forward (just a single baby step forward) but is also left at a cliffhanger to protect us viewers from ever getting truly interested in the story (and maybe even to stretch out the otherwise seemingly very thin plotline...
I didn't really like the idea of a drag show as a Christmas tradition. That just seemed to be shoved in there for DEI. I did like the overall concept and some elements of the writing were really good. For example a nice touch was the father introducing the girl to his son. This sh...
Almost every aspect of Borderlands feels borrowed and unoriginal, simply a shameless regurgitation of supposedly popular genre tropes wrapped in bad costumes and disappointing CGI. The film somehow manages to look both obviously ill-advisedly expensive and awkwardly ‘cheap’ at the same time. The pl...
Another rush job from the MCU. I had a lot of hope for this series. It honestly looked like a down to earth spy thriller with an intriguing concept. Sadly I was wrong. Sure it has high production values and a lot of really cool actors involved, including the great Olivia Coleman. But...
Dec 5, 2022 Permalink 4/10 Pretty but hollow Echoing the sentiment of other reviews: this anime seems to be mostly tailored to young children. The story isn't deep and rather predictable, there are few (if any) real consequences and there is a lot of boasting and repetition in dialogue....