TV Reviews8.4/10
Demon King Academy’s Overpowered Hero Makes the Case for a Power Fantasy That Argues Back
Anos Voldigoad reincarnates 2000 years after dying for peace, only to find a weak demon society that won't believe he's the real Demon King.
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Category: TV Reviews
Television we have watched and scored.
TV Reviews7.2/10
Po Mentors Four Panda Kids in a Series That Never Finds Its Footing
Review of Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny — Po becomes a teacher to four panda kids with chi powers, a clever premise held back by a weak villain.
TV Reviews9/10
Atlanta” Review: The Most Complete Portrait of Modern American Striving”
Donald Glover's Atlanta ran four seasons on FX from 2016 to 2022, blending Afro-Surrealism, bottle episodes and the Paper Boi story into a 9/10 series.
TV Reviews8.2/10
X-Men ’97 Picks Up the Animated Series’ Thread Without Pretending the Years Didn’t Pass
X-Men '97 ran two seasons and 19 episodes, reviving the 1992 animated series with Magneto leading the team. A review of Marvel's most confident animated show.
TV Reviews7.3/10
The Fall of the House of Usher Review: Mike Flanagan Turns Poe Into a Family Saga
Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher turns Poe into a gothic family saga about a corrupt pharma dynasty, with Carla Gugino and Mark Hamill standing out.
TV Reviews8.3/10
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Review: Kyoto Animation’s Dragon-Maid Comedy Earns Its 8.3
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid turned a drunken joke into one of anime's most durable comedies. A look at Tohru, Kanna, Kyoto Animation, and the 8.3/10 score.
TV Reviews8.5/10
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War — A Genius Standoff Across 37 Episodes
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War review: two geniuses refuse to confess first across three seasons, 37 episodes, and two films from A-1 Pictures.
TV Reviews8.4/10
Why Justified Still Works 16 Years Later
FX's Justified ran six seasons and 78 episodes, won two Emmys for Margo Martindale and Jeremy Davies, and made Harlan County its real subject.
TV Reviews7.9/10
The Odyssey” (1997) Review: Armand Assante Anchors a Miniseries That Takes Homer Seriously”
A review of NBC's 1997 miniseries The Odyssey, starring Armand Assante and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, and why it still holds up.
TV Reviews5.8/10
Dark Matter Review: A Competent Syfy Adventure That Never Escapes Its Premise
Dark Matter, Syfy's amnesiac-crew space series from the Stargate team, ran three seasons and 39 episodes before its 2017 cancellation. A 5.8/10 review.
TV Reviews8.5/10
A Woman Falls for an AI That Wears Her Creator’s Face
My Holo Love, Netflix's 2020 K-drama about a face-blind woman and the AI built to look like his creator, deserves more attention than it got.
TV Reviews6.4/10
HBO’s Weekly Release Schedule Made The Undoing’s Weaknesses Impossible to Ignore
HBO's The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, was 2020's most-watched HBO show. We review the six-episode limited series and its pacing problems.