December is typically a wintry month well-suited to Holiday-themed content, but apparently nobody told Amazon Prime about our human traditions. The streaming service clearly couldn’t care less about holidays or wintriness, as its offerings in December could just as easily be coming in one of the loser months like May…

There are often much easier answers to the big questions on TV than there are in life. Most of us spend years looking for certainty, reassurance, some psychological clue that we’re doing...the right thing, the safe thing, whatever. Homecoming is a reminder: Even dreams have unexpected ends.

“I deserve to be punished. Don’t I?”

“I don’t know what’s going on. Do you?” Set to the awkward background soundtrack of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,” Heidi’s question to her mother succinctly describes not just the first half of this series, but an apt slogan for the worst results of the Homecoming project.

Anyone who’s lived through a traumatic event can tell you just how difficult it often is to address it directly. What they can’t always tell you? The degree to which that same trauma is present in every other moment of their lives.

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins will see his latest film, a “rich, tragic” adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, in theaters on November 30. In advance of its release, Amazon has announced that it has signed the Oscar-winning filmmaker to a first look television deal.

What happened to Heidi Bergman? After thirty minutes of some of the most enticing table-setting this side of an Agatha Christie novel, that’s the question facing viewers as we’re left outside a waterfront dive, with little sense of where we’re heading and even less of how we—and she—ended up here.

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…