Entertainment Unfiltered
It’s finale time on Transformers: Robots in Disguise. And literally the only time I’ve seen a “previously on” segment for this show. Needless to say, I doubt it will be a common occurrence. Things pick up right where they left off. Drift actually has the insight to ask Fixit whether the guy right in front […]
In which Margaux and I bid a tearful farewell to Hannibal. Trevor: Okay, let’s get the obvious out of the way: if “The Wrath of the Lamb” is fated to be Hannibal’s series finale, then the show went out in top form. “Wrath” ranks among the best series finales I’ve ever seen. This is as good a […]
Shocker: Margaux and I loved this week’s Hannibal. Trevor: I should warn you up front: Red Dragon is one of my favorite books ever, so I’m already in the tank for this storyline. I’m gonna try to be objective, but there’s only so much I can do to restrain my excitement at seeing Francis Dolarhyde on my […]
BoJack Horseman is Netflix’s best original show. This is better than House of Cards, better than Orange Is the New Black, better even than Daredevil, which until last Friday was the high-water mark for the streaming service’s original programming. BoJack creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg has pared this show down to its essence and found exactly what works about it, and the result is nothing less […]
Margaux and I literally have to make ourselves stop talking about how good Hannibal was this week. (PS, now that Hannibal has moved to Saturdays, look for our coverage on Mondays.) Trevor: First of all, thanks for filling in for me last week when I was spending way too much money at Comic Con. Last week’s “Dolce” was a hell […]
We’ve gotten a lot of body horror in the last month of Transformers: Robots in Disguise, haven’t we? Well, the good news is that all of that is behind us. The bad news is that you’d better be ready for some more. Sideswipe is pretty proud of his body. Regular Mr. I’m-so-awesome-and-you-suck. Goes on and […]
Let me preface my review of Ted 2 by saying: I like Family Guy. I like American Dad! and I even like The Cleveland Show (laugh it up, but it really hits its stride around halfway through its first season and finds a voice of its own). But I’m far from a Seth MacFarlane apologist; I recognize that Family Guy‘s head disappeared up […]
In its two decades so far, Pixar has given us many wonderful movies, starting with their first and to this date best, Toy Story. That 1995 game-changer set the bar at nearly impossible heights, sure, but more recent titles like Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and WALL-E don’t just stand out as exceptional pictures geared towards children […]
Margaux and I continue to fawn over Halt and Catch Fire‘s kick-ass second season. Trevor: I feel like every one of our reviews for this show starts the same way, but screw it: I continue to be impressed by Halt and Catch Fire’s second season. Margaux: And they had an impressive director to boot, Kimberly Pierce of Boys […]
I gotta hand it to Sense8. I’m still not 100% sure what’s going on, but I enjoyed “I Am Also a We” far more than the premiere “Limbic Resonance,” and I think a lot of that has to do with the presentation. “We” is a quieter, more intimate, more human episode, and the show is well served by it. […]
Margaux and I take a look at Bryan Fuller’s brilliant Hannibal. Trevor: Season two of Hannibal was structured like the traditional Japanese dish kaiseki from which it took each of its episode titles. Every installment complemented every other one. Season three, however, is increasingly baroque. Bryan Fuller has said that he’s abandoning the gimmick of titling each […]
For a while it looked as though Arrow was going to stick to its tried and true formula for season finales: blow the shit out of Starling City. After the Undertaking and Slade Wilson’s attack, I have no idea how Starling isn’t mired in Detroit-level poverty. Thankfully though, “My Name is Oliver Queen” opted to end on […]
