Feb 22
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C+
Following last week’s Audrey-centric episode that was effective on a character level, “Keep Hope Alive” is a…
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Feb 15
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B+
The arrival of Big Alice has stirred something in each of the passengers on Snowpiercer: fear and uncertainty for…
Feb 11
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C-
After dropping a literal atomic bomb last episode, The Stand closes off its woefully uneven run with a quiet and…
Feb 8
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B+
After its first two action-packed and overstuffed episodes, Snowpiercer season two pumps the brakes a little bit,…
Feb 4
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C-
Locked up in a cage in New Vegas, Glen Bateman cautions his fellow captives Larry and Ray again being overly…
Feb 1
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B
One of the strangest missteps—and changes from Snowpiercer the film—in Snowpiercer’s first season was the decision…
Jan 28
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B-
“The Walk” is easily the most action-packed episode of The Stand so far, setting several plans in motion, and featuri…
Jan 25
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B
Snowpiercer’s second season starts right where the first ends—with the arrival of Big Alice. The modest 40-car…
Jan 22
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A
As with the close-look at Rue’s spiral out of sobriety following Jules’ departure in “Trouble Don’t Always Last,” Eup…
Jan 21
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C+
With only a few more episodes until the finale, there’s only so much that The Stand can really do to fix some of its…
Jan 14
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D+
Up until this point, Randall Flagg has mostly lurked on the periphery of The Stand’s story. We see his bootheel hold…
Jan 7
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C+
The Stand’s flashback-dependent structure continues to be one of its downfalls. As for “The House Of The Dead,” the…
Dec 31
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C+
Three episodes in, it’s becoming too hard to ignore the failures in The Stand’s structure. It does make sense that…
Dec 24
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B+
In its second episode, The Stand once again bounces between past and present, introducing even more characters to…
Dec 17
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B-
Every time a book as popular as The Stand is adapted for screen, two questions emerge: Will it satisfy the built-in…
Dec 14
3
In a year that saw many of us relegated to our homes for much of its duration, TV was an ever more powerful medium…
Dec 4
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A
While I struggled with Euphoria’s first season and ultimately found its execution to be uneven—all style, little…
Nov 2
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B+
We Are Who We Are follows a brilliantly acted but ultimately dysfunctional penultimate episode with its finale, the…
Oct 26
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A-
We Are Who We Are is the rare conundrum of a show where the cast is operating on an almost entirely different level…
Oct 19
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B
A consistent strength of We Are Who We Are has been its ability to give very high stakes to very low-stakes…