Amazon’s celebrated Emmy-winner Transparent has been in flux for almost a year now, ever since multiple women involved in the show’s production accused star Jeffrey Tambor of sexual harassment. Tambor has since been fired and/or loudly quit the series, which has been forced to decide where to go in the absence of its…
Part of what made Mad Men such a pleasure to watch was everything that occurred between the words. The lingering glances, slow sighs, and slight, furtive movements hinted at some strongly checked desire rustling beneath the surface that was not allowed to break into the very identity-conscious 1960’s. These quiet…
One question kept running through my head toward the end of The Man In The High Castle’s season finale, “Jahr Null”: Do these scenes belong in the same show? Early on we’re treated to the most spectacular science fiction sequence of the series as the massive Nazi machine designed to open the portal between worlds is…
The clock is running out on the season (and has completely run out for one character, but more on that later), and “Baku” provides what we more or less expect from a penultimate episode in the age of premium television. By the end, everything is in place for whatever finale fireworks are planned. Those will no doubt…
Inevitably, if a series lasts long enough, the narrative problem of servicing all the characters arises. The actors are under contract, they’re getting paid, so the creative team either has to kill them off or keep them busy somehow. Some of those choices will end up being considerably less compelling than others.…
Well, this is an odd one. “Excess Animus” is largely concerned with moving pieces into place for the homestretch of the season, so we get a number of reunions as well as quite a bit of repetitious exposition. But there are also a couple of dream sequences, as well as the hardest push yet in the direction of science…
After all the fireworks of the previous episode, it’s not much of a surprise that “History Ends” eases back on the throttle quite a bit. It’s an hour full of quieter moments (at least until the end), some more effective than others. That’s largely dependent on how invested you are in the characters involved...but not…
One of the most evident changes in The Man In The High Castle this year is the accelerated pace. Several times this season I’ve been caught off guard by how quickly storylines have been resolved or twisted into intriguing new directions. Take all the action surrounding the Reich’s high command in this episode alone:…
“They think this world is normal.”
Films have been key to The Man In The High Castle since the first reel from another world was introduced at the very beginning, but they’ve never been as omnipresent as they are in “Sensô Kôi.” (I’d love to tell you what that means, but Google Translate has failed me.) Juliana is watching one set at Tagomi’s house,…
When Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson started publishing their uber-violent superhero fantasy The Boys back in 2006, they chose to make the sort of Hollywood called shot that’s paid off so well for Marvel and Samuel L. Jackson: Basing their main character, “Wee” Hughie, off of then-semi-known Shaun Of The Dead star…
Juliana, we are told, is the key to everything. She’s the one person who appears in all the films, regardless of which world they came from. (She even turned up in Abendsen’s fake as a child, surely a harbinger of her future importance if ever there was one.) Indeed, it’s becoming clear that she possesses a mystical…
Given the nearly two-year hiatus between seasons of The Man In The High Castle, and the resolution of the production turmoil that left the series without a showrunner for much of the second season (Eric Overmyer, previously of Bosch, is now on board as executive producer), viewers might be expecting a substantial…
Perhaps bolstered by a strong showing at this year’s Emmys—or just being very invested in winning the game of Game Of Thrones thrones—Amazon is making deals left and right this morning. First, The Wrap reports that Jeff Bezos’ streaming arm has signed an overall deal with Neil Gaiman, who’s already deep in production…
The day that modern-day oracle (and FX president) John Landgraf warned us about is here: The Streamapocalypse, a date we’ve dubbed such because it’s absolutely packed with complete seasons of new and returning shows across multiple genres. Want to settle in for some big laughs? Netflix has a couple of options for you.…
For as weird and enigmatic Matthew Weiner’s previews usually are, it sure seems like he’s giving us an awful lot of his upcoming Amazon series The Romanoffs ahead of time. The show premieres on October 12, and we’ve already got a couple of teasers and a full episode-by-episode breakdown (though that one was pretty…
[The following contains some spoilers for Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan on Amazon.]
While the Bond franchise hunts for a new director (and maybe even Daniel Craig’s successor), Amazon is hoping to move from niche programming to blockbuster productions with the help of a different household name. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, from Lost alums Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland, presents the fifth screen…
It’s almost September, the month where everybody’s sick of the warm weather, grumbling about going back to school, and/or complaining about how Pumpkin Spice Lattes are available too early. It’s also time for some new stuff to come to Amazon Prime, though, which should be more fun than all three of those things. This…
Fresh off the finger-snapping fun of Avengers: Infinity War—and even as they’re deep into post-production work on the still-untitled Avengers 4—brothers Joe and Anthony Russo are revving up their next big project. Amazon announced today that it was teaming up with the pair—who got their start in TV, back before they…
