What I wrote in my review of the first season of Star Trek: Discovery was that I enjoyed it despite the fact that it was Star Trek in name only (for the most part) that doesn’t apply to the second season, which has almost righted the ship, so to speak. Part of the reason for […]
Ignore all the hatred you’ve heard about Star Trek: Discovery (currently airing in the United States on CBS All Access, internationally on Netflix) because IT IS AWESOME. That being said, that “awesome” should be taken with more than a few caveats, the biggest being that if you’re a worshipper at the Church of Roddenberry, you’re […]
I have to admit that I was initially a bit lukewarm about Jordan Peele’s reboot of The Twilight Zone. And that’s less a commentary of Peele’s skills as a writer (I assume he’ll be writing some of the episodes) more than Rod Serling was so iconic that I’m not at all comfortable with the idea […]
The Twilight Zone is a tricky franchise to revisit. There’ve been numerous versions since the original, which ran in 1959-1964, but none have captured the spirit of the zeitgeist quite like it. The most recent version is being spearheaded by Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) though I suspect that it won’t be able to escape […]
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