Don’t you feel like we’re on a train to s****ville and no matter what we do, no matter how comfortable the ride is, no matter how many tasty snacks they give us along the way, or how much they string…
‘The X-Files’ 11×04 Review: To Find Each Other
Well, that was weird, and out there and still so much better than Chris Carter’s platonic musings or medical rape, because at this point, anything and everything is better than the BS Carter is still trying to feed us twenty…
‘The X-Files’ 11×03 Review: Platonic my arse
I’m going to start this review with a caveat, and I want to be really, really clear here. Just because you’re coming across a mostly positive review about a pretty decent episode of a show that changed my life, introduced…
The Gifted 1×12/1×13 Review: It’s The End of The World As We Know It
The Gifted goes for broke in its two-hour Season 1 finale *belts out REM’s It’s the End of the World as We Know It*, and as it’s been the case thorough the whole of its first season, we really, really…
‘The X-Files’ 11×01 Review: Our Struggle
Chris Carter has a thing for repeating titles, as “My Struggle III” will attest to (and Redux II, The Sixth Extinction II, Nothing Important Happened Today II, etc). He also has a thing for complicated plot lines no one cares…
‘The Gifted’ 1×10 Review: Hello Stakes
When Marvel announced a new TV spinoff, and introduced the idea for The Gifted, a show about the mutants we don’t really know, about the non-famous X-Men, as it were, it sounded intriguing. But, unlike DC, which has made DCTV…
‘The Gifted’ 1×08 Review: The End Justifies The Means
I have two questions for The Gifted. No, actually, I have like 45 questions, but I only have two really important ones that, with two episodes till the end of the season, I need the show to answer right now.…
‘The Gifted’ 1×07 Review: Crossing Lines
When it’s on, The Gifted is a compelling show whose whole premise puts them in the perfect place to deliver pointed and necessary social commentary, especially in a world where, every day, it seems like, mutants or not, prejudice is…
‘The Gifted’ 1×06 Review: The Best Way Out is Always Through
Ah, to quote Robert Frost in a TV review is to get deep, but I couldn’t help but think of this line as I tried to find a common thread, not just to this season of The Gifted, but to…
‘The Gifted’ 1×05 Review: An Eye For An Eye?
Look, if there’s one thing “boXed in,” The Gifted’s fifth episode makes clear, is that this show is at its best when it’s dealing with complex morality issues that mirror real life in scary was, and of course, when Lorna…
