TV Reviews7.5/10
Dota: Dragon’s Blood: A Well-Built Fantasy That Deserved More Eyes
Dota: Dragon's Blood ran three seasons on Netflix and never found its audience. A review of Studio Mir's animated fantasy, its craft, and its quiet end.
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Television we have watched and scored.
TV Reviews6.1/10
Hell on Wheels Builds a Town That Moves and a Country That Won’t Heal
Hell on Wheels ran five seasons on AMC as a Western about the transcontinental railroad, never choosing between revenge story and history. A 6.1/10.
TV Reviews7.2/10
The Protector: Netflix’s First Turkish Original, Reviewed
Netflix's first Turkish original, The Protector, ran four seasons and 32 episodes from 2018 to 2020. A look at Hakan, Zeynep and why the show still holds up.
TV Reviews6.4/10
Home Before Dark Review: Brooklynn Prince Anchors a Mystery Caught Between Two Audiences
Apple TV's Home Before Dark ran two seasons and 20 episodes, scoring 6.4/10. A likable mystery with a great child lead that never picks an audience.
TV Reviews7.6/10
The timer starts counting the moment Quinn Mallory’s machine tears a hole in his San Francisco basement, and it never really stops. That is the engine of ‘Sliders’, the science-fiction series Tracy Tormé and Robert K. Weiss created for Fox in 1995. A boy-genius builds a doorway to infinite Earths, tests it with two people standing too close, and loses the coordinates for home. What follows is five seasons of triage.
Sliders ran five seasons and 87 episodes, from Fox to Sci-Fi, Vancouver to L.A. A 7.6/10 retrospective on the parallel-Earth show that never got home.
TV Reviews6.9/10
Netflix’s Dept. Q Puts a Damaged Detective on a Cold Case, and Lets the Procedure Carry It
Dept. Q review: Matthew Goode leads Netflix's Edinburgh-set cold case thriller, adapted from Jussi Adler-Olsen's novels. Solid start, uneven pace.
TV Reviews7.9/10
The Munsters: 70 Episodes of Benign Monsters, a Golden Globe Nod, and a 7.9 Audience Score
The Munsters ran 70 episodes on CBS from 1964 to 1966, a monster-family sitcom that lost its timeslot to Batman and became a syndication hit.
TV Reviews8.1/10
Transformers: Prime” Review: A Franchise Cartoon That Trusted Its Audience”
Transformers: Prime ran 65 episodes and ended with a TV film. Peter Cullen and Frank Welker returned, Cliffjumper died in the pilot, and it still holds at 8.1.
TV Reviews5.7/10
Them: Two Seasons, One Worth Defending
Little Marvin's horror anthology Them spans two seasons on Prime Video — Covenant (2021) and The Scare (2024). We break down which one is worth watching.
TV Reviews7.2/10
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew: A Warm, Familiar Amblin-Style Adventure
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, the Jude Law-led Disney+ series from Jon Watts, ran eight episodes and won four Children's & Family Emmys. Our review.
TV Reviews7.2/10
The Old Man Review: Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow Anchor FX’s Sparse Thriller
FX's The Old Man stars Jeff Bridges as a retired CIA operative pulled back into his past. A review of the thriller's two seasons, cast, and 15-episode run.
TV Reviews5.6/10
Bryan Cranston Thriller Wastes Its Own Setup by Going in Circles
Netflix's Harlan Coben adaptation I Will Find You gives Sam Worthington a strong premise but stretches it across eight circling episodes. Review score: 5.6/10.