This episode was filmed in my small town of Ashcroft, British Columbia back in February, and the bulk of the outdoor filming was done on the block where I work as editor of the Ashcroft Journal newspaper, so I got a front row seat for the action. I’ve seen some still pictures of the model, and apart from one or two…

I have to disagree with this assessment, I watched a couple of episodes with my wife and son, and while the concept has a ton of potential, the execution screws it all up. The narrator is incessantly talking over the action, and the whole thing is edited to death. The audience ultimately don’t see that everyone is…

I somehow enabled the Descriptive Video Service when watching “Rocketman” on Amazon Prime the other day and it took me a couple of minutes to figure out why the action in the Paramount logo was being narrated: “Star fly over a mountain!” 

“NYBY Station”?

I’ve been following the reviews and I actually thought this one worked...ngl and Tim sold it for me, Joel is really schlocky but the plot was decent and engaging. The horror elements when the octopus is killing everyone was pretty metal too...Ovation still the low point. 

This gets a “fresh” rating from me. I liked the constant uncertainty of who had the psychic powers. The highly stylized production design reminded me of some of the 80's Twilight Zone episodes (when that passed for special effects). And since we are viewing through the eyes of a teenager, the world is slightly over…

Actually, the explicit reveal of the conjuring happened with the key to the balcony. After they use it, it disintegrates, and it is explained that it dusted away because it had fulfilled its purpose. The pencil from the cold open appears inside the desk after the camera pans up then back down. Madison conjured it for…

The opening was very nice, but a cursed-object story should really loop back on itself.

Save yourself the ten hours and take a hard pass on this one.

It is interminably stupid and stupefyingly dull. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

I still can’t comprehend why they took Brian to the Vega home. Like those big time gangsters did not have any free safehouses anywhere?

Although I will admit that having the Nazis be able to successfully track down where Lewis had hidden the kid by relying on racial stereotypes sure was a bold move from the show.

I don’t really disagree with most of this review. This season was ten episodes of setup for next season, and that’s just not how writing for tv is supposed to work (weirdly, the last season of Westworld did exactly the same thing).

There were so many baffling narrative choices in this show to the degree it was almost interesting. I mean, it wasn’t so bad that it was entertaining nor would I ever recommend this to anyone, but after having watched there are so many aspects I find myself wondering. Like the utter failure at some basic storytelling…

This should have been a slam dunk too. All they had to do was draw from 20's - 40's pulp fiction novels. You know, the same way the original show was based inspired by trashy* Victorian literature hence the name Penny Dreadful? 
Have the church be some kind of secret cult to a Lovecraftian God. They’re tied with the…

Well that was something... and by ‘something’ I mean ‘absolutely nothing’. Nothing really happened at all this season and the things that did, like her death, did not actually *do* anything. It was all set up for a future season that may never occur.

Okay, two thoughts:

Are these not being reviewed in order? My second episode is called Downtime.

The sad thing about the Peele Twilight Zone (at least the first season) is that it failed to grasp a huge lesson that the original series already learned the hard way: the episodes have to be a half hour or less to work!! All the classic original episodes are the half hour format (which really means 20+ minutes with ad…