DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 1 comes on the heels of that postapocalyptic thriller of a pilot episode. Frankly, it's everything that I did and did not expect. It basically rewinds time to when the alien spacecraft first appeared, but it's also so much more than that. It's everything I
DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 0 gives us one of the most whiplash-inducing episodes in anime history. All because it makes maximum use of in media res to thoroughly bamboozle the audience. All in the name of giving us a suspenseful thriller of a pilot episode in which resistance is the
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely