Nearly everything in Wonka is served up with an intoxicating effervescence.
That Dirty Black Bag sets the stage for an explosion of conflict, but it’s easy to wish that it took less time to pick up steam.
The show wants to both mock the no-bull crassness of political wheelers and dealers and cling to a moralistic view of government.
The season finale features a series of reckonings, not all of them as satisfying as one might have hoped.
It pauses to establish the constellation of conflicts driving the first season of The Leftovers to its conclusion.
With “Guest,” The Leftovers whittles away Nora’s placid exterior until all that’s left is the abraded soul inside.
Compared to “Pilot,” “Penguins One, Us Zero” is more focused, but the ambivalence it provokes remains the same.
In the beginning, at least, The Leftovers sounds familiar.
This intensely amusing show outlines the struggles we face as we try to shape ourselves into some abstract idea of adulthood.
Survivors’s real villain isn’t the virus, or the top-secret medical team hinted to be experimenting with it, but other humans.