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Tag: television reviews

  • March 30, 2021 P. J. Collins 9
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    Mrs. America Redux

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    One of the great unexpected pleasures of the Covid lockdown last spring was discovering oddball television series you otherwise wouldn’t have approached with a barge pole. Producers and programming executives detected a nice angle here, so they moved up launch dates by a few months. This is what happened with Mrs. America, a nine-part FX series with Cate Blanchett that debuted on Hulu last April and May, instead of its originally scheduled launch in July and August. (more…)

  • November 4, 2020 Trevor Lynch 4
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    Twin Peaks

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    I feel like I grew up in Twin Peaks, the fictional Washington logging town that gave its name to David Lynch’s iconic TV series, which aired on ABC from the spring of 1990 to the spring of 1991. Twin Peaks has one of the best pilots in television history, which was followed by an abbreviated first season of seven episodes. (more…)

  • October 27, 2020 Howe Abbott-Hiss 8
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    The Boondocks

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    HBO is planning a reboot of The Boondocks, an animated television series which ran from 2005 to 2014. Created by black cartoonist Aaron McGruder, the show was an interesting sociopolitical satire, lampooning blacks at least as much as whites. Although the series’ creator majored in the largely grievance-focused field of African American studies in college, it is not the unreflective blaming of whites for the problems of blacks that one might expect. (more…)

  • October 20, 2020 Howe Abbott-Hiss 13
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    The PJs

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    The PJs was an animated television sitcom series that unfortunately ran for only three seasons, from 1999 to 2001. Shockingly by today’s standards, the series focused on lampooning inner-city blacks, depicting them as buffoons in a way that would only be acceptable today if the subjects were white. It was not so long ago that (more…)

  • August 31, 2020 Buttercup Dew 5
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    Torchwood: Children of Earth

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    Children of Earth, or more accurately “Children of Britain,” was the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood’s third outing. Torchwood dropped the Doctor and asked what happens when he’s not around to save the day, a not-unreasonable question given the astonishing frequency the Earth is attacked by aliens. Being a BBC show, it’s always Britain that gets attacked first and hardest, and a “Time Rift” in Cardiff keeps vomiting out beasties for the Torchwood team to tackle. (more…)

  • August 20, 2020 Alex Graham 9
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    Lovecraft Country

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    For the past several years, fans of H. P. Lovecraft have agonized over the question of how to reconcile their love for the Cthulhu mythos with Lovecraft’s views on race. Lovecraft Country, a TV adaptation of Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, proposes a solution to this dilemma: to apply Lovecraft’s characterization of eldritch horror to white people. The show, whose producers include J. J. Abrams and Get Out director Jordan Peele, premiered on August 16th. As one would expect, it is awful, (more…)

  • January 24, 2020 Robert Hampton 25
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    Who’s Ready for Black Elves in Middle Earth?

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    Tolkien world experienced two huge events this month.

    Amazon announced last week the diverse cast for its new Lord of the Rings series. Shortly thereafter, Christopher Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien’s editor and the guardian of his father’s legacy, died. (Hopefully, there was no connection between the events.) (more…)

  • November 28, 2019 Morris van de Camp 2
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    The War against Thanksgiving Has Been Declared

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    Into the Dark: Pilgrim (2019)
    Directed by Marcus Dunstan
    Written by Noah Feinberg, Marcus Dunstan, & Patrick Melton
    Starring Reign Edwards, Kerr Smith, & Courtney Henggeler

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  • November 27, 2019 Robert Hampton 5
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    Don’t Shy Away from The Wire

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    Remember The Wire?

    The HBO television series was Barack Obama’s favorite series and a main item on Stuff White People Like (SWPL).

    The Wire ran for five seasons from 2002 to 2008. The show is set in Baltimore – the city President Donald Trump called a “rodent-infested mess” – and focuses on drug dealers and the cops who pursue them. (more…)

  • October 22, 2019 Max West 16
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    Who Watches the Watchmen?

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    As much as I feared that this series, which departs significantly from the Alan Moore canon, would be weighed down by the usual PC nonsense, I never imagined its very first episode would revel in visceral anti-white sentiment and Leftist Id-expression fantasies. If we extrapolate from this show’s first episode, HBO’s Watchmen may turn out to be the Left’s spin on the imagined future events of The Turner Diaries. (more…)

  • September 4, 2019 Buttercup Dew 4
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    Kemono Friends:
    Adventure in Japari Park

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    Kemono Friends is a clever twelve-episode anime that revolves around an adventurer, Kaban, and her attempts to find out where she belongs in the mysterious, sprawling and derelict “Japari Park.” Airing January through March 2017, it’s since become a surprise hit and amassed a cult following thanks to its effective storytelling and “strange deepness” that makes it more compelling than first impressions may suggest.

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  • August 15, 2019 Nicholas R. Jeelvy 1
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    The Sopranos, Part II

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    Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

    The first two seasons each have two arch-villains: one from the underground, another from the government. In the first season, Tony’s position is threatened by Uncle Junior and by Jimmy Altieri, who turns informant for the federal government. In the second season, the danger escalates on the government front as the primary threat comes from the subversive and patient Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero, (more…)

  • August 14, 2019 Nicholas R. Jeelvy 24
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    The Sopranos, Part I

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    Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

    It’s been twenty years since it premiered, and twelve since it concluded, so we can now claim with a dose of certainty that we have a historical perspective on it. Yes, folks, I’m talking about The Sopranos, David Chase’s crime drama that redefined modern television. Ditching the episodic format for season-long sagas while still presenting slice-of-life vignettes centered around Tony Soprano, The Sopranos made such hits as Breaking Bad, The Shield, and The Wire possible.

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  • August 14, 2019 Adna Bertrand Rockwell 4
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    Yet More Oppression Porn:
    The Handmaid’s Tale, Season Three

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    The third season of The Handmaid’s Tale is well-crafted in almost every way. The cinematography is outstanding. The dialogue is good. The acting is excellent. Its fictional universe is interesting, and it has a dark, dystopian beauty to it. However, the season doesn’t hang together. I got quite bored with it and stopped watching after getting enough information to scrape together a review. (I know what happens in the rest because I cheated and read the plot summaries after watching two-thirds of the season.)

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  • May 6, 2019 Alex Graham 7
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    Star Trek: Discovery

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    Star Trek: Discovery (henceforth referred to by the fitting abbreviation STD) is the sixth Star Trek television series, and a direct prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series. The first season premiered in 2017, and the second premiered this January. The plot centers around the exploits of the USS Discovery amid a war between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets.

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  • April 2, 2019 Morris van de Camp 7
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    How Six Feet Under Helped Bring Down the Religious Right

    Six Feet Under‘s main characters

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    It is well known that death is as much a part of life as taxes, and yet there are very few creative works that deal with the mechanics of death. Who digs the grave? Who cuts and engraves the headstone? What happens behind the scenes at a funeral parlor? What is it like to grow up in a house where the remains of the recently departed are embalmed in the basement? (more…)

  • March 26, 2019 Morris van de Camp 8
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    A Judeo-Christian Walking the Earth:
    Highway to Heaven

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    There needs to be formal recognition of the genre of TV shows where the protagonists “walk the Earth.” The best explanation of these was given by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) to his partner Vincent (John Travolta) in the film Pulp Fiction:

    Jules: First, I’m going to deliver this case to Marsellus, then, basically, I’m just going to walk the Earth.

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  • March 8, 2019 Howe Abbott-Hiss 2
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    My Name is Earl: A Review

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    “You know the kind of guy who does nothing but bad things, and wonders why his life sucks? Well, that was me.” So began the early episodes of My Name is Earl, a comedy series which ran from 2005 to 2009 and followed the life of working-class white man Earl Hickey on his quest to make up for all of his past sins. This series from writer and director Greg Garcia combined genuinely funny and creative writing with an unfortunate proto-SJW mindset which elevated “victim” groups and denigrated white people in a way that is increasingly prevalent in popular entertainment today.

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  • March 6, 2019 Nicholas R. Jeelvy 13
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    The Punisher

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    About a month ago, a friend suggested I check out The Punisher, Netflix’s 2017 series. Wary though I am of the Marvel Comics Universe and modern entertainment, I must say what he said about the series was rather appealing. So, I bit the bullet and watched the thing. Now, recently, Netflix announced that it would be canceling the show due to attempts by Disney (more…)

  • March 1, 2019 Mark Gullick 10
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    Comedy as Occupied Territory:
    It Ain’t Half Hot Mum

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    Few outside England and under 50 will have noted the passing last month of one of Britain’s great comic character actors: Windsor Davies. Although born in North London, he was actually Welsh by parentage, gifting him an accent he made much use of, delivered in a timber-shaking baritone. (more…)

  • December 19, 2018 Buttercup Dew 3
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    The Way of the Gang in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

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    Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (more frequently Gurren Lagann) is a 2007 fantasy adventure by Gainax. It’s an explosive, white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of mecha action, as well as featuring stunning dialogue and character design. (more…)

  • November 21, 2018 Charlie Farnsbarns 10
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    Are You Local?
    The Grotesque Genius of The League of Gentlemen

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    Monty Python’s Flying Circus sent a shockwave through 1960s England as its anarchic and surrealist comedy completely overturned televisual orthodoxy. The show was the result of a collaboration between a group of supremely talented, middle-class Englishmen (and one American) who, whilst challenging the norms of mainstream comedy, still kept the irony and biting satire that have always been the staple of English comedy at its core.

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  • November 15, 2018 Buttercup Dew 2
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    Anime Among the Ruins: Girls’ Last Tour

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    Girls’ Last Tour (2017)
    Directed by Takaharu Ozaki
    Written by Tsukumizu

    Girls’ Last Tour is a short (twelve episodes, manga-based) slice of life/adventure anime. Unlike the cutesy and safe setting of contemporary Japan common to the genre, Girls’ Last Tour is a post-apocalyptic journey through an industrial wasteland. (more…)

  • October 3, 2018 Charlie Farnsbarns 8
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    A Reminder that England Still Exists:
    Detectorists

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    Metapolitics – the technique of altering our culture, to prepare the way for political change – is the primary strategy of the White Nationalist movement. It’s what most smart cookies promote to get us out of this godawful mess. But to change the culture, we must become part of it.

    As we are not, currently, part of the establishment’s culture, the tendency of the Right is to view existing popular culture from an “identitarian” perspective. But is this justified? (more…)

  • July 11, 2018 Adna Bertrand Rockwell 2
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    Oppression Porn for the Obama Coalition:
    The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 2)

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    The Handmaid’s Tale, Season 2 (2018)
    Produced by Hulu
    Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, Sydney Sweeney, Max Minghella, Joseph Fiennes, etc.

    The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 1) is based on the book of the same name that is both a femi-porn rape fantasy like Fifty Shades of Grey and a hard, alarmist look at the drop in the fertility of high class, intelligent, white women. (more…)

  • June 21, 2018 Adna Bertrand Rockwell 6
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    The Handmaid’s Tale:
    An Indictment of the Sexual Revolution

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    The Handmaid’s Tale, Season 1 (2017)
    Produced by Hulu
    Based on the 1985 book The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
    Starring Elisabeth Moss, Max Minghella, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes, & Ann Dowd

    I decided to watch The Handmaid’s Tale with some trepidation, (more…)

  • May 21, 2018 Voryn Illidari 10
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    Cobra Kai

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    I just concluded a very satisfying orgy . . . of nostalgia. By that I mean that I finished watching season 1 of the new series Cobra Kai on YouTube Red. Before the NEETS accuse me of giving money to the Jews, I’ll have you know that I have a free 30-day trial that I intend to cancel before I am charged. Elements within the Alt Right have already discussed the show a bit, (more…)

  • May 16, 2018 Morris van de Camp 2
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    Lessons for White Advocates in The Looming Tower

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    The Looming Tower (2018)
    Produced by Hulu
    Based on the 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
    Creators: Dan Futterman & Alex Gibney
    Starring Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard, & Eisa Davis (more…)

  • May 15, 2018 Buttercup Dew 2
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    Metalocalypse Männerbünde

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    Metalocalypse is a cartoon show created by guitarist Brendon Small and comedy writer Tommy Blacha which first aired in 2006 and continued for four seasons, concluding with a one-hour special “Klok Opera.” (more…)

  • March 23, 2018 Jef Costello
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    Seriál Vikingové

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    English original here

    Rozesmutněn nad ztrátou Perníkového táty (Breaking Bad) jsem několik let hledal seriál, kterým bych ho dokázal nahradit. (more…)

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