TV Reviews7.9/10
Lovecraft Country Review: HBO’s Ambitious Horror Road Trip
Lovecraft Country review: HBO's 2020 season, its novel-inside-the-novel twist, the cast, the Supremacy cancellation and a 7.9 score.
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Television we have watched and scored.
TV Reviews8.9/10
Samurai Champloo Review: Shinichiro Watanabe’s Hip-Hop Samurai Road Trip Still Lands
Samurai Champloo review: Watanabe's hip hop Edo road trip with Fuu, Mugen and Jin still earns its reputation. Score: 8.9/10.
TV Reviews8.6/10
Cardcaptor Sakura at 28: A Quietly Durable Classic Across 92 Episodes
Cardcaptor Sakura review: 92 episodes, four seasons, and one of anime's most durable magical-girl series, scored 8.6/10 for its cast, tone, and craft.
TV Reviews8.4/10
Kaiju No. 8 Turns a Garbage Man Into the Defense Force’s Secret Weapon
Kaiju No. 8 review: Kafka Hibino, Mina Ashiro, powered suits and Numbers weapons, 23 episodes across two seasons from Production I.G.
TV Reviews6.3/10
Snowfall’s first season keeps its footing when it stops trying to be several shows at once
A review of FX's Snowfall, the 1983-set crime drama that ran six seasons and 60 episodes, and why its sprawl kept it from greatness.
TV Reviews8.1/10
What The Magnificent Century Gets Right About Power, 15 Years On
A review of The Magnificent Century, the 139-episode Turkish drama about Süleyman the Magnificent, his reign, and his bond with Pargalı İbrahim.
TV Reviews5.4/10
Ryan Murphy’s Watcher Has a Great Cast and Nowhere to Go
Netflix's The Watcher wastes a stacked cast on seven episodes of letters, suspects and no payoff, scoring 54/100 in our review.
TV Reviews7.9/10
The Cul-de-Sac Kids Have Held Up for 27 Years
Ed, Edd n Eddy ran on Cartoon Network from 1999 to 2008 — 126 episodes of failed schemes, jawbreakers, and one creator who kept creative control.
TV Reviews7/10
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn review: a five-part YouTube experiment that outgrew its marketing brief
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn was a five-episode YouTube series that cost under $10 million and beat its own marketing brief.
TV Reviews8.6/10
Alchemy of Souls: Two Parts, Thirty Episodes, and a Female Lead Who Changed Hands Three Times
Alchemy of Souls ran 30 episodes on tvN in two parts across 2022-23, and its female lead changed hands three times before the finale.
TV Reviews4.5/10
Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin: Seven Warriors, Four Episodes, One Thin Quest
Netflix's The Witcher: Blood Origin, a four-episode prequel set 1,200 years before Geralt, fails to carry seven warriors and a fallen elven empire.
TV Reviews5.8/10
Stargate Universe Tried to Grow Up and Took the Fun With It
Stargate Universe hit Syfy in 2009, ran two seasons and 40 episodes, then got cancelled before its story finished. A review of the ambitious franchise entry.