Christmas, Again opens with a series of diffuse, colorful lights, suggesting the electronic video art of Nam June Paik in their abstract arrangement against a black background.
The episode ends American Horror Story: Freak Show on an unsurprisingly dour and haphazard note.
Director Andrew Haigh and writer Michael Lannan present a suggestive exchange of stories that feels both familiar and remarkably specific.
Girls’s attempts at eliciting our empathy for a privileged coterie of navel-gazers can sometimes verge on the indulgent.
Freak Show helps to confirm an unofficial rule about the series at large: The more a season actively utilizes its chosen setting, the better it is.
Full disclosure: I am, to paraphrase that old Sex in the City parlor game, such a Patrick.
Even if “Iowa” is a workhorse of an episode, it bodes well for what comes next.
“Magical Thinking” finds the series resorting to its usual bag of boring, hyperbolically over-plotted tricks.
Showrunner Steven Moffat presents the intersection between Doctor Who and Christmas in the most direct possible way.
Tonight’s season finale of Homeland was a homecoming of sorts, a return from the wilderness, a clearing of the slate.
“Orphans” finds Freak Show taking a surprisingly earnest detour from its usual preachy, ultra-violently “relevant” shenanigans.
A sense of loss, in love and war alike, permeates the episode.
You may be inclined to wonder throughout the typically atypical murder sequences and arbitrary character epiphanies how this series is written.
The series finale of Kurt Sutter’s super-violent Shakespearean biker-gang saga represents a high-water mark.
Migrating Forms remains the art-house event of the New York moviegoing calendar.
Homeland has once again assumed its place as television’s sharpest appraisal of the War on Terror.
“Blood Bath” is another of American Horror Story: Freak Show’s housecleaning episodes.
Jax spends much of the episode trying to mend the bursted gangland seem that he was entirely responsible for opening.
Dawn is ultimately only standing up for herself when she shoots Beth, protecting only her sense of respect at Grady Memorial and nothing else.
The entire episode hinges on how one is to approach kindness and care in the world of the living dead.