Jan 14
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Up until this point, Randall Flagg has mostly lurked on the periphery of The Stand’s story. We see his bootheel hold…
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Jan 7
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C+
The Stand’s flashback-dependent structure continues to be one of its downfalls. As for “The House Of The Dead,” the…
Dec 31
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C+
Three episodes in, it’s becoming too hard to ignore the failures in The Stand’s structure. It does make sense that…
Dec 24
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B+
In its second episode, The Stand once again bounces between past and present, introducing even more characters to…
Dec 17
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B-
Every time a book as popular as The Stand is adapted for screen, two questions emerge: Will it satisfy the built-in…
Dec 14
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In a year that saw many of us relegated to our homes for much of its duration, TV was an ever more powerful medium…
Dec 4
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A
While I struggled with Euphoria’s first season and ultimately found its execution to be uneven—all style, little…
Nov 2
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B+
We Are Who We Are follows a brilliantly acted but ultimately dysfunctional penultimate episode with its finale, the…
Oct 26
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We Are Who We Are is the rare conundrum of a show where the cast is operating on an almost entirely different level…
Oct 19
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B
A consistent strength of We Are Who We Are has been its ability to give very high stakes to very low-stakes…
Oct 17
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C+
“You said it was a ghost story. It isn’t. It’s a love story.”
Oct 16
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One of the many tricky bits of constructing effective horror is determining how much to explain. Things go bump in…
Oct 15
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We have very little control over our memories. Remembering an event, a person, a place doesn’t always feel like a…
Oct 14
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Henry Wingrave has mostly been a background character up until this point. He hires Dani in the first episode, and…
Oct 13
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A
“The Altar Of The Dead” is a remarkable chapter of The Haunting Of Bly Manor. At the heart of it rests a perfectly…
Oct 12
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“Surprise, I exist outside of your mind,” Caitlin says to Fraser after he says the moustache she’s painting onto…
Oct 12
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I wish this were a more obvious statement, but good queer representation does not mean queer characters have to be…
Oct 11
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“The Two Faces, Part One” opens with a great sonic transition from classic frenetic horror strings into “Tainted…
Oct 10
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The most explicit connection between The Haunting Of Bly Manor and its predecessor The Haunting Of Hill House is…
Oct 9
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The year is 1987, and a young American woman named Dani (Victoria Pedretti) takes a job at as an au pair in the…