TV REVIEWS
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I Watched the WILL TRENT Season 4 Premiere, So You’ll Know You Have To
The creators of WILL TRENT are back on the grill and serving up juicy plots in the Season 4 premiere
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Episode Appetizer: My Hero Academia: Vigilantes – “Day-Tripping Down to Naniwa!” [season 2 premiere]
Our intrepid vigilantes are back for another round!
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‘The Pitt’ Season Two Continues its High Level of Weekly TV
Season two of The Pitt sharpens its focus with deeper character work, intense medical realism, and a confident ensemble that proves traditional weekly TV still works.
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Episode Appetizer: Hana-Kimi [series premiere]
Whether you’re nostalgic for the manga from your childhood or you just want a fun anime to unwind, Hana-Kimi has a little something for everyone.
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The Copenhagen Test: Spy-fi Thrills
The Copenhagen Test is a tense espionage thriller that revels in its secrets more than its revelations, grounded by great performances and real, palpable emotions.
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‘The Elephant’ Is Adult Swim’s Most Ambitious Animated Exquisite Corpse
Adult Swim’s The Elephant is a bold animated experiment from Cartoon Network legends, blending striking styles and big ideas about existence, creativity, and connection. A rare, rewarding surprise.
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‘Emily in Paris’ Season 5 Brings Ennui to Italy
Normally, I enjoy watching Emily in Paris because it’s fun to be a hater, but even this hater couldn’t find much to feel strongly about.
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Jordan Peele Wants You to Get on Your ‘High Horse’
High Horse: The Black Cowboy is a primer on the true, largely untold history of Black life on the plains.
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Fallout: Season Two Expands the Wasteland, but Loses Some Focus
Fallout season 2 grows bigger and more character-focused, but its many storylines slow the pace. Strong performances and world-building keep it entertaining, even if it never hits season one’s highs.
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Episode Appetizer: You and I Are Polar Opposites [series premiere]
You and I Are Polar Opposites captures that first-time love in such a cutesy, starry-eyed way that you can’t help but smile and reminisce.
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Percy Jackson And The Olympians S2 Might As Well Be A Siren Song, We Are So In
Percy, Annabeth, and the cyclops Tyson face cannibals, chariots, and the call of the sea in Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
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The Abandons: Family Rules All in the Wild West
It’s not an easy watch, but it is a gripping one, and its emotions resonate through history and time.
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REVISITED: The English – Not Even the Old West Could Destroy These Two
“Emily Blount is so strong she’s wrecking lives.” Alongside The Abandons, we’re taking you back to the most slept-on Western in decades: The English
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Lightning Recs: Is it Cake? Holiday – Season 2
Much like its original Instagram trend, Is it Cake? Holiday S2 keeps things short & sweet with three festive-filled episodes.
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Season Appetizer: Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age is, at its heart, curious about what came before us; it asks and answers questions that will tickle the brains of any natural history enthusiast.
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REVISITED: ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4, Vol 1 – Hawkins is the New Definition of “Hellmouth.”
Taking it back to Stranger Things Vol 4, it was a comedic-horror party mix that delivered on everything you love about the series (you just had to know when to cover your eyes)
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Lightning Recs: A Man on the Inside – Season 2
If you’re looking for something comfy and familiar to curl up to this winter season, head back undercover with A Man on the Inside.
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Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake season 2 balances Gen Z Life with Fantasy Brilliance
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake season two blends real-world adulthood with multiversal fantasy, deepening its characters and themes while delivering some of the strongest storytelling in the franchise. It’s heartfelt, imaginative, and emotionally sharp—showing how…
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Series Appetizer: The Mighty Nein
Set twenty years after The Legend of Vox Machina, The Mighty Nein takes us further east, to the continent of Wildemount.
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Season Appetizer: June Farms
If you’re looking for your next workplace reality drama fix after Selling Sunset, give June Farms a whirl.