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Disney is brilliantly setting up The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian for the price of one and is creating the kind of connective thread that made the MCU films so successful.
Episode six of Devs seems to be setting up the potentially earth-shattering events that are to come in the next two episodes.
Whether or not “Part 2” was the worst entry in Star Trek: Picard’s first season is up for debate, but what it did was to highlight all that’s made it a well-produced but frustrating show that, sadly, fell shy of the mark.
By tackling an issue that the real world is facing right now, Westworld season three becomes even more exciting and relevant.
Altered Carbon season 2 may not be exactly what season 1 seemed to promise, but in many ways, that’s a good thing.
Episode 5 of Devs is a glimpse through time for our characters, utilizing impressive visual effects in the process.
If you let yourself think about all the unknowns in the world, it can bring on a strange, existential panic, one that Upstream Color captures in a beautifully unnerving way.
While we’ve followed the bad batch for four episodes now, the reintroduction of Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi helps to signal to us that we’ve arrived at a new plotline.
Avenue 5 is adrift, not exactly voicing a perspective that feels fresh or relevant. It doesn’t know what it wants to be, leaving it stuck in an unsatisfactory middle.
Episode 2, “The Winter Line”, retains the energy the premiere of Westworld Season 3 established, giving us what we want: Maeve.
If the purpose of “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1” was to reassure viewers that all we’ve seen up to this point mattered, well… mission failed.
Episode 4 of Devs is a season high so far, bringing forth major plot points and leaving many of our characters in uncertain positions.
“Broken Pieces” is an episode that sends everyone on their way to where they’ll need to be in the upcoming two-part finale, but doesn’t do so with any tangible enthusiasm.
Compared to the confusing season 2, the first episode Westworld season 3 is more straightforward, and much clearer and more exciting in terms of the action and its philosophical examination.
Andrew Young spoke with BACURAU directors Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, its brutality matched by its politicised satire and a dark and playful humour.