TV REVIEWS
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‘Twisted Metal’ Season 2 is Closer to the Games and Succeeds
Twisted Metal season 2 came back with a great new season closer in line with the stories from the PlayStation Game series.
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Lightning Recs: Long Story Short
From the creators of BoJack Horseman comes Long Story Short, which tells the story of the Schwooper family over the decades with animated finesse.
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Peacemaker Season 2: Can Peacemaker Have a Wonderful Life?
Peacemaker Season 2 wears its Post-Crisis 80’s DC Comics influences on its sleeve to humorous success.
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PRIME’s Butterfly – I Should Love It and There’s a Lot to Like But I Don’t Know How I Feel
Sherin covered the new Prime Video action thriller, Butterfly, for RogerEbert.com. This series has everything we love, but Sherin was shockingly bored. WHAT!?! How?
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Series Appetizer: Fit For TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser
Fit For TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser is a three-part documentary that puts the hugely successful competition series under the microscope.
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WEDNESDAY Season 2 – Part 1: the Second Semester of Doom
Goth Girl Greatness resurrects in Wednesday Season 2 – Part 1, let the woe begin.
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REVISITED: Peacemaker – S1 E8 “It’s Cow or Never”
With Peacemaker S2 dropping later this month, let’s look back at how S1 of the series that probably launched the new DCU ended
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Eyes of Wakanda Dives Into Espionage and Myth Across MCU History
Stylish visuals and sharp action animate Wakanda’s secret history.
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Lightning Recs: Leanne
A classic sitcom about starting over, Leanne has a comforting Southern charm baked right in and serves up slices of heartfelt truth sprinkled with easy laughs.
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The Sandman Season 2 – Part 2 EXPLAINED: Denials, Dead Ends, and the Dream reDefined
The final days and death of Dream explained (now that you’ve watched The Sandman Season 2 – Part 2)
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Sakamoto Days – The Assassins are Back for a Second Helping of Kills and Ramen
Chaos, comedy, and carnage; the next arc of SAKAMOTO DAYS is even more delightfully twisty—our Episode 13 preview
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Season Appetizer: Kaiju No. 8 – Season Two [Episodes 1 and 2]
If you thought the first season of Kaiju No. 8 was wild, buckle up—this monster buffet is just getting started.
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Episode Appetizer: Nyaight of the Living Cat [episodes 3 & 4]
One of the many questions you might be asking yourself upon diving into this series: Can’t the humans stop them? Well, it’s time to find out.
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Lightning Recs: Zarna Garg: Practical People Win
Garg’s wry observations and sharp zings are so very her—and that distinct flavor of realness is what will keep you coming back to watch this comedy special again and again.
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‘Untamed’ Tracks a Tense Murder Trail Through the Wilderness
Untamed is a gripping six-episode mystery-thriller that takes the tenuous connections within the park and pulls the threads taut until they snap.
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Series Appetizer: Detectives These Days Are Crazy!
Keiichiro Nagumo used to be a genius detective, that’s over, but there might be hope for this misbegotten gumshoe in the form of the brash junior detective Nagumo Masahiro, a girl who dreams of becoming…
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Episode Appetizer: Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse
It’s just an Isekai, the Isekai can’t hurt me but Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth-verse says hold my beer.
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ROMCON: Who the F*** is Jason Porter?
These types of series are all over and I’m here for every minute of it…but this one, ya’ll, I just don’t know.
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Episode Appetizer: With You and the Rain
‘With You and the Rain’ is a quietly magical anime that sneaks up on you with its charm—kind of like an alternate universe ‘Bee and PuppyCat’
