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“Jupiter” is one of those classic, moody before-the-storm finales. Think of Mad Men’s Cuban Missile Crisis episode…
Reviews - Manhattan
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Manhattan is such a dense show the story tends to crowd out the rest, but get a load of the succinct, wordless…
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Frank’s back, baby! In the course of a single episode he gets an honorable discharge, permission to see his wife,…
B+
This season is enormous. In seven episodes it’s covered a year. Despite the deaths and departures, the cast keeps…
B+
Tickling the dragon’s tail sounds like a fun game. The dragon in this case is a ball of radioactive plutonium that’s…
A
“The World Of Tomorrow” is the story of the story of the Manhattan project. That’s not a typo. It’s the episode…
B
They did it. The Manhattan writers figured out how to get Frank out without cheating: a phone call from Eleanor…
A
Manhattan still doesn’t quite feel like Manhattan yet this year. On the one hand, the producers are sticking to…
B
Critics keep calling Manhattan the Mad Men of the ‘40s and I keep wincing at how off that description is (never mind…
B+
I can’t believe Manhattan gave us a season premiere without the star of the show. Absence defines “Damnatio…
B+
Maybe it’s Thomas Schlamme and Richard Schiff, but I can’t get The West Wing out my head. It starts with the fact…
B+
The only thing really wrong with Manhattan is that the material has been retread so many times. Not the Manhattan…