Category: Reviews of Television Shows
Children of Dune: With Alec Newman, Julie Cox, Ian McNeice, Steven Berkoff. The twins of Paul “Muad’dib” Atreides become embroiled in the political landscape of Arrakis (“Dune”) and the rest of the universe. Even James McAvoy and Susan Sarandon couldn’t hold my attention on this adaptation. True, the special effects are somewhat better and the spice eyes are much improved, but the base story is just so bland and boring. I remember this was the book that I decided that I wasn’t going to read any more of them because of how impossibly slow the entire things is. Buy On...
The Expanse: Created by Daniel Abraham, Mark Fergus, Ty Franck, Hawk Ostby. With Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham, Shohreh Aghdashloo. In the 24th century, a group of humans untangle a vast plot which threatens the Solar System’s fragile state of detente. Well the show is done and while there were no major missteps, this last episode had about 3 seasons worth of material in it, it’s a shame they didn’t get the time to either edit this down to something with a tighter story or give it just another season to follow through on the promises they were making....
Moonbase 8: Created by Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker, Jonathan Krisel, John C. Reilly. With John C. Reilly, Tim Heidecker, Fred Armisen, Joshua Davis. Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker and John C. Reilly star in this new comedy series as three astronauts trying to qualify for their first lunar mission. They encounter obstacles along the way including loneliness, self-doubt and incompetence. Cringe worthy in all the wrong ways, I stayed with the first season because it was weird. Turns out the entire thing is just delightfully and wholesomely weird through and through. It’s more of a “Fred Armisen” weird than a “John...
The Wheel of Time: Created by Rafe Judkins. With Rosamund Pike, Daniel Henney, Zoë Robins, Madeleine Madden. Set in a high fantasy world where magic exists, but only some can access it, a woman named Moiraine crosses paths with five young men and women. This sparks a dangerous, world-spanning journey. Based on the book series by Robert Jordan. Season one has wrapped and boy howdy did a whole bunch of nothing happen. Sure it was exciting and it set up a whole bunch of stuff, and the setting up was pretty cool, but it would have been super dope for...
The Imagineering Story: With Tom Morris, Kevin Rafferty, Angela Bassett, Matt Fowler. The inside look into the Walt Disney Imagineering company. An extremely indepth look at the history of the WED Team, later renamed to the Disney Imagineering Team. It’s nearly pure D+ propaganda, but has a ton of interesting behind the scenes content that even the casual Disney fan can appreciate. Buy On Amazon!
