TV Reviews7.4/10
Westworld Review: Dolores’s Awakening Carries a Dense, Confusing Ten-Year Journey
A retrospective on HBO's Westworld, weighing its ambition, opaque plotting, and enduring cultural influence.
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Television we have watched and scored.
TV Reviews7.3/10
‘Arrow’: A Dark Playbook That Couldn’t Always Deliver
A retrospective review of Arrow, The CW's eight-season superhero drama starring Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen.
TV Reviews9.8/10
Black Mirror Review: Still Ahead of Its Time at 15 Years Old
A grim chronicle of machines and men, wherein each tale of a mirror's dark reflection doth warn us of our own strange destiny.
TV Reviews8.5/10
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman Bring Sherlock Into the Modern Age
A modern London detective's tale of deduction, brilliance, and friendship, revisited.
TV Reviews9.6/10
Thirteen Years After Its Debut, Attack on Titan’s World Remains Unmatched
A tale of walls, monsters, and the people who dwell between them — a review of the anime Attack on Titan.
TV Reviews8.2/10
‘Dark’: Time Travel, Family Secrets, and a Town That Keeps Collapsing
A grim chronicle of a town whose fates are sealed by a terrible machine of time, wherein grief and prophecy entwine.
TV Reviews9.2/10
Ragnar’s Ambition in Vikings Remains the Heart of the Show, Thirteen Seasons Later
A review of the History Channel's Vikings, a brutal and beautiful epic about Ragnar Lothbrok and the rise of the Norse world.
TV Reviews6/10
After Two Decades, Supernatural’s 6/10 Score Holds Up Because the Show Never Tried to Be Better Than It Was
A look back at Supernatural, the long-running CW series about two brothers who hunt demons and ghosts, and why it still resonates.
TV Reviews8.5/10
Naruto Shippūden Review: Darker, Sharper, Still a Strong Successor
A review of Naruto Shippūden, the darker sequel series that deepens the Hidden Leaf Village saga with war, betrayal, and a search for the Nine-Tails.
TV Reviews6.3/10
‘The 100’: Cold Survivor to Leader, With Too Much Explaining
A review of The 100, a teen sci-fi show whose early grim realism succumbed to convoluted flashbacks and cartoon villains.