Tag: Streaming
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The Eye of Argon: A Literary Analysis (Part 2)
Alright, so calling this an “analysis” is like calling what they serve at Arby’s “meat,” but that’s just life – sometimes the people you trust tell you horrible lies in order to get pageviews. Today we’ll be looking further into Jim Theis’ fantasy epic “The Eye of Argon”. Although the version that I’ve been referencing…
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Review: The Mandalorian, Season 3, Eps. 6-8 (Disney+)
Let’s call a spade a spade: this season of Mando was more uneven than my heart rate, and the last three episodes really exemplified a lot of the problems I had with this season as a whole. I put off writing this review because, honestly, I just didn’t find the end of the season…
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Review: The Mandalorian, Season 3, Eps. 1-5 (Disney+)
I would have done a review of just the first four episodes – to break the season into clean halves – but, well, I got distracted. Being trapped in an oubliette for six days will do that. Off we go… Episode 1: The Recap Oof. This was a rough start to the season. This felt…
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Review: The Last of Us, Eps. 6-9 (HBO)
I’ll try to keep this relatively spoiler-free, but, as usual, don’t be surprised if a few plot details show up. What do you expect me to do, edit this? Pros: -The cast was fantastic the whole way through: Pedro Pascal turned in a soulful, haunting performance as a much more hardcore adoptive dad than he…
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Review: The Last of Us, Eps. 1-5 (HBO)
A Quick Introduction I’ve played the first Last of Us twice – once when it came out, and then again when it was remastered (for the first time). I never played the second title in the series, because it looked like a relentless fucking downer. When I heard that The Last of Us was getting…
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Review: Andor, Eps. 11 & 12 (Plus Full Season Score)
Who ever thought a prequel to a prequel could be this good? Honestly, the first season of Andor feels like a prequel to a prequel to a prequel, but (shockingly enough) it’s an excellent show on a standalone basis. In the context of Star Wars, however, Andor shoulders the unenviable job of wringing hefty dollops…
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Review Showdown: House of the Dragon vs. The Rings of Power (Part 2)
Before we start, let’s have some fun with math! That’s a sentence I never thought I’d say… The first season of The Rings of Power cost approximately $715 million to make.[1] That means that Amazon spent a little less than 10% of Somalia’s GDP to buy 8 episodes of mediocre television. (Honestly, I’m surprised by…
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Review: Andor, Episodes 7-10
In my relatively short tenure as proprietor of a reviews-oriented site, I’ve come to realize that it’s much, much easier to write about things that I don’t like than it is to crank out ~1000 words on something I actually enjoyed. The episodes comprising Andor’s last arc make for a hard review in the best…
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Review: Halloween Ends
This was a weird one. Not bad-weird, but strange enough that a one-sided discussion like this necessitates the disclosure of… *From far away, across a desolate, blasted land, comes the tolling of ancient bells* …spoilers (the spookiest thing of all). Away we go. Part the First: Some Grisly Context You’re probably aware that Halloween Ends…
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Review: Andor, Episodes 4-6
[Oh, yeah, there’s some spoilers in here, but I tried to avoid anything too specific…apart from the ending of Rogue One.] Something about these three episodes rubbed me the wrong way…but, much like the clitoris, I’m having a hard time putting my finger on it. Oh, well. Let’s give it the old college try. Andor’s…