‘Preacher’ 1.10 Recap: “Show Us God”
‘Preacher’ is a very weird show, and the first season ended with a very weird finale. It’s also a very uneven show that was never quite as clever or as satisfying as I may have wanted. I’ll give it one...
View Article‘The Night Of’ 1.08 Recap: “Did You Kill Her?”
Well, this didn’t go quite as I expected it to. HBO gives viewers a feature-length (roughly 95 minutes) final episode to ‘The Night Of’ that wraps up the trial and seems to answer the question of who...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2 Finale Recap: “You Get to Die a Beautiful...
I’ve grown so disinterested in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ that I put off watching the two-episode season finale for more than a week after it aired. Frankly, I dreaded sitting for almost two more hours...
View Article‘Westworld’ 1.10 Recap: “Everything Is Under Control”
The season finale of ‘Westworld’ isn’t just a case of one plot twist too many. It has so many twists and turns and violent contortions that I no longer have any idea what the story is at all. I’ll give...
View Article‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ 2.10 Recap: “Now THAT Is a Firm Handshake”
The last episode of ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ was a lot of fun and gave me hope that the show would close its second season on a strong note. That the finale is actually rather sloppy, confusing and not...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 7.16 Recap: “The Jig Is Up”
In what may be a relief to fans, Sunday’s finale of ‘The Walking Dead’ is perhaps the best episode of the season. Unfortunately, with this season, that’s not a very high bar to clear. The episode still...
View Article‘Grimm’ Series Finale Recap: “Dude, We Are Taking You Down”
Even as a fan, I don’t think ‘Grimm’ really needed to run for six seasons. Somehow, the show survived its rocky periods and was granted the opportunity for a proper send-off with a concrete ending. The...
View Article‘Legends of Tomorrow’ 2.17 Recap: “Bad Things Happened and It Sucked”
I gave up recapping ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ halfway through the second season, mostly because the show just didn’t fit into my schedule to get watched and recapped in a timely fashion. It didn’t help...
View Article‘Bates Motel’ Series Finale Recap: “This Is How It Ends, Isn’t It?”
After five fantastic years, it’s finally checkout time at ‘Bates Motel’. I’m happy to say I was there from the very beginning, and have written recaps of every single episode. Does the finale do the...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.22 Recap: “This Is What Happens When You Piss Off...
The season finale of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ is really three finales in one, as it combines and wraps up this season’s Ghost Rider, LMD, and Agents of HYDRA story “pods” all at once. For the most...
View Article‘Supergirl’ 2.22 Recap: “This Is My Home”
After what has seemed like a long and often unfocused season, ‘Supergirl’ finally closes out Season 2 on a high note, with an episode that wraps up the silly Queen Rhea/alien invasion storyline and...
View Article‘The Flash’ 3.23 Recap: “You Kill Me, You Become Me”
‘The Flash’ races to his final confrontation with Savitar, and I have to admit, the season finale has a plot twist I genuinely didn’t see coming. I should have, though. As I think of it, this was...
View Article‘Gotham’ 3.21 & 3.22 Recap: “I’m Blaming It on the Butler”
‘Gotham’ has worn me down. I’m exhausted by it. Frankly, I found a lot of this season a slog to get through. When I sat down this week to watch the season finale, I was both relieved that I’ll be...
View Article‘American Gods’ 1.08 Recap: “You Wouldn’t Believe in Me If I Told You”
One of the strangest TV shows currently on the air (perhaps not the strangest, but one of them at least), ‘American Gods’ ended its short first season on Starz this week. Befitting such an...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 7.07 Recap: “Lies Won’t Help Us in This Fight”
This too-short season of ‘Game of Thrones’ comes to a close not with another epic battle set-piece (although, it kind of does that too), but with an 80-minute episode packed with uneasy alliances and...
View Article‘Twin Peaks’ 3.17 & 3.18 Recap: “See You at the Curtain Call”
‘Twin Peaks’ is over, perhaps for good. Whatever you may have expected or wanted the grand finale of ‘Twin Peaks’ to be, the actual conclusion David Lynch delivered is not that. Whether you find it...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 3 Finale Recap: “What a Perverse Family You Have”
I’m as surprised as anyone that I watched the entire third season of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’. I was ready to give up on the series after last season, but I stuck around for curiosity’s sake. Little by...
View Article‘The X Files’ 11.10 Recap: “What If This Is Our Last Good Chance?”
With Chris Carter writing and directing again, there was never any doubt that the season finale of ‘The X Files’ would be awful. The real question was always just how awful it could be. We’re back in...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.16 Recap: “It’s Not Over ‘Til He’s Dead”
‘The Walking Dead’ finally closed its disappointing eighth season with a big finale that exiting show-runner Scott Gimple promised would end the war with Negan in a way that will satisfy every fan who...
View Article‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ Series Finale Recap: “Oh Great, I’ve Doomed Humanity”
After 37 years of playing the character on-and-off, Bruce Campbell is finally hanging up the chainsaw and retiring Ash Williams. In what came as a surprise to fans, the Starz network abruptly announced...
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