C
What’s left to say about this season of The Brink? It’s a show that wanted to be both a Strangelove-esque satire of…
Reviews - The Brink
C
By the end of “Just a Little Crazy Talk,” the penultimate episode of The Brink’s first season, we know exactly what…
B
If “Sticky Wicket” was The Brink’s “the shit hits the fan” episode, then “Who’s Grover Cleveland?” is the “fallout…
B+
Despite some emotional heavy-handedness, rushed character development, a handful of terrible lines of dialogue, and…
C
For all of its mediocrity, The Brink is actually a fascinating example of the pitfalls of serialized television.…
B
One of the most confounding aspects of The Brink is its insistence on geographically separating the three main…
C+
“I’ll Never Be Batman” is a mostly bland, occasionally funny episode of The Brink, a mostly bland, occasionally…
C
One of the major downsides of modern serialized television is the constant presence of “table-setting episodes,”…
B
As it stands now, The Brink’s dense plotting is its biggest asset as well as its biggest problem. The series…
B-
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb satirizes Cold…
B
The Brink takes a quick route to comedic tension: It puts the lives of its characters (and practically everyone else…
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