Category: Television
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The Haunting of Bly Manor, or, The Stripping of the Screw
I liked The Haunting of Bly Manor, but I’m already afraid of diminishing returns
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One Thing I Like About The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House had quite a few jump scares, but it saved its most masterful tricks for the finale
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It’s not difficult
A reminder from Amber Ruffin to stop giving a pass to so-called “casual” racism
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The Mandalorian: We’ve Seen All This Before
The Mandalorian is both the Star Wars TV series I’ve been wanting for over thirty years, and even better than I imagined.
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One Thing I Love About The Mandalorian
The first Star Wars live-action TV series gets so much right that it’d be a shame not to notice its amazing soundtrack.
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Una cosa que me encanta de Los Espookys
Los Espookys on HBO is weird and brilliant and I already miss it, even though it’s not over yet
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One Thing I Love About The Good Place
The Good Place silently rejects decades of “white by default” in favor of showing what heaven is really going to be like.
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The Right People
About the return of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the creepy complexities of nerd ownership
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Violent Delights
The end of Westworld’s first season has felt like a series of reveals for the sake of having reveals. This post is packed full of unmarked spoilers.
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Electric Sheep
HBO’s Westworld is as much of a post-millennial meta-textual exercise as the original was a 1970s fear-of-technology thriller. That doesn’t mean it has nothing to say, though. Spoilers for the first three episodes.
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1984 Upside Down, or, Use Your Allusions
Stranger Things would still be pretty great if it were just a shameless pastiche of 80s movies, but it ends up transcending that.
