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Star Trek: Discovery’s third season ends on a quote from Gene Roddenberry. A cursory google search failed to yield…

Okay, I’ve checked multiple times, and I’m pretty sure that this episode is finally the penultimate episode of…

Death To 2020, a new Netflix comedy special from Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, gets its best joke in early.…

Well, I’ll give them this: it’s a good cliffhanger. “Su’Kal” is getting near the end of Discovery’s third season,…

The good news is, I already went through my rant about the Mirror Universe in last week’s review, so there’s no need…

The Expanse’s greatest strength is also the source of its biggest weakness. In adapting a series of novels to…

How much you enjoy “Terra Firma, Part 1” (and, I’m guessing, it’s follow up next week) will depend largely on your…

I’m noticing a pattern in my season three Discovery reviews: I tend to enjoy the show more when it widens its focus…

“Storia Americana” is the shortest episode of Fargo’s fourth season. More than that, it’s unusually short, with the…

An early scene in “Unification III” shows Michael and Book in bed together, having an intimate conversation about…

One of the more unpleasant aspects about watching a mediocre season of a show like Fargo—a series that holds its…

Waaaay back in Discovery’s pilot episode, Michael Burnham made a choice to directly disobey her captain’s orders.…

I love when a show changes its tempo for an episode. It’s something The Walking Dead does (or did) a few times a…

At the end of last season, we learned that the then-present day Federation was preparing to pull an Armin Tamzarian…

So, it looks like we’re in the “shit meets fan” portion of the season. Last week, I commented on how Fargo’s bold…

The Trill were first introduced to the Star Trek franchise in the Next Generation episode “The Host.” In that…

Looks like I should’ve saved my mini-treatise on Doctor Harvard’s name for this week; sort of “paying tribute” kind…

Hey, remember Lost? Pretty good show, right? Yeah, I have fond memories—and one of the things I remember most…

I still can’t quite get over the name “Dr. Harvard.” Obviously the names on this season of Fargo were chosen with…

Given how “Far From Home” ends, it’s understandable that Star Trek: Discovery opened its third season with last…