It makes me consider just how much of the success of Rogue One was indeed Tony Gilroy rather than Gareth Edwards.

Andor has gone from the name that I didn’t really care about on that big MCU-style Star Wars Wall-O-Announcements screen to now the guiding light for every major Star Wars project going forward.

Forgive the self-reply, but... in retrospect, can you imagine what Rogue One might have been like with the original script intact and none of the hasty rewrites and reshoots?

Goddamn is this show ever great. It’s reminding me a bit about the early 70s cinema turn to grit and antiheroes and the whole embrace of moral ambiguity. I particularly loved how, during the robbery, the Rebels haughtily self-justify themselves while kidnapping a relatively innocent woman and her son, basically…

Was really hoping to wait and binge this, but avoiding spoilers was getting tricky. So I went ahead and knocked out the first 6 last night. Now, waiting for the next three and then the second season, it’s safe to say I haven’t felt this level of anticipation for something Star Wars related since I was a kid in the…

Andor is also succeeding in how real it feels. The good guys suffer losses in firefights, characters have motivations outside of the main plot, and you can feel the rebellion building through small clues like the little extra commotion in the senate or the guy joking about it while reading the news. A lesser show…

Oh, and the Commandant dying of an apparent heart attack was some sweet poetic justice.

Man, this episode was truly fantastic. Tense, full of great flourishes and world building, bolstered by top notch performances, and it really made me question if the heist would be a success. And some really fantastic visuals, from the Eye to the reveal of the doctor having four arms.

“Kennan”?

hazing by Loren Michaels

an intense, barely restrained, furry

Last week’s action-packed blood feast finally delivered Rings fans the epic battles TV viewers crave.

Kreiger being a man of culture is a fan of Iron Maidens early 90s album Fear of The Dark.

It’s becoming a site wide issue. The quality of writing for this site has gone off a cliff, especially over the last year. The Atlanta reviews are typically good, but that’s about the only thing off the top of my head that sticks out in a good way

Go read Jenna’s other reviews for the show. There’s errors and oversights that are so large they make it impossible to engage with the content. You can’t even have a good chat about it in the comments because the actual substance of the observations are off. It’s not bloviating nerd pedantry, it’s a meaningful problem…

I’d settle for a reviewer who likes the show enough to actually bother paying attention while watching it.

This writer is TERRRRRIBLE at the “attention-paying” aspects of her job.

He specifically says, “if that’s the case I’d personally prefer if you posted reviews a few hours later so you can have time to actually rewatch the episode and edit a bit.” And I agree, not being first to publish is better than getting lots of details wrong. Like not noticing that Helaena’s “gibberish” is actually pro…

I’ve been holding back on criticizing these reviews but I’m starting to get genuinely annoyed at the sloppiness. So many mistakes like...

When Rhaenyra proposes to Daemon, she tells him that she “cannot face the Greens alone.” You’d be forgiven for not knowing what that means, because like so much other plot-pivotal knowledge, the show hasn’t told us about it.