Double Cross: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The second season of Double Cross improves on the first, thanks to Robin’s inclusion and the Detective Ryan hell-bent on justice.
Season Review
Season or series reviews of shows, summarizing all you need to know in one post.
It’s A Sin: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
It’s A Sin does deserve points for slightly altering the narrative regarding the AIDS pandemic’s early years, but eventually, it’ll feel like more of the same.
Would You Rather: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Would You Rather gives you a raw teenage experience, sans the usual sex and drugs.
Ready To Love: Last Resort – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite changing some aspects of the show, Ready To Love still struggles to end up with three couples and cast people who can handle what the show calls for.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Season 4 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comes to an end, and, honestly, you’re reminded more so of where the series went wrong than what it did right.
Bridgerton: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Bridgerton on its surface can be breezy and a quick watch. However, if you choose to analyze it, it can be far deeper than a girl finding love in a newly diverse world.
Adachi and Shimamura: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Adachi and Shimamura takes the slow and steady approach to love. Thus giving you something which may feel annoyingly slow at times, but often authentic.
For The Love of Jason: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
UMC’s newest show For The Love of Jason has everything it needs, except enough episodes to not feel a bit rushed.
Industry: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Industry does not have every character live up to its potential, Myha’la Herrold and Ken Leung damn near save the show.
His Dark Materials: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While the men of His Dark Materials are borderline liabilities to the show’s greatness, the women, more than enough, make up for what nearly every male character lacks.
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters – A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
“In Search of the Sanderson Sisters” is truly a labor of love with moments that remind you why Bette Midler is often associated with being camp.
Lovecraft Country: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
“Lovecraft Country” continues the burgeoning tradition of, within the fantasy/horror genre, embedding Black stories to bring America’s shameful history back to life.
Raised By Wolves: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While “Raised By Wolves” starts off with so much promise, by the end of season 1, nearly every bit of its potential is lost.
Michelle Buteau: Welcome to Buteaupia – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
“Welcome To Buteaupia” will remind you of when comedians got hour-long specials because it was time, and they deserved it, rather than a network just needing content.
Rent A Girlfriend: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While “Rent A Girlfriend” began with the possibility of being more than another male fantasy anime, it shifts to being what was expected.
P-Valley: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While P-Valley takes a while to get its groove, and has misplaced focus with its characters, by the end you’re hooked.
The Chi: Season 3 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As The Chi continues to prune and grow, you can see it is fearless as it pursues avoiding routine and stagnancy.
Lucifer: Season 5 (First Half) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The first half of Lucifer’s 5th season reminds you how procedural storylines impede greater development of characters, no matter what the show.
Trinkets: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In the final season of Trinkets you can see there was so much left to cover, but the writers salvaged what plans they could.
Don’t Look Deeper: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Don’t Look Deeper feels limited by the way Quibi handles its productions, considering it ends almost as soon as it finishes laying down its foundation.
The Umbrella Academy: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Season 2 of “The Umbrella Academy” still has a villain problem, but with heading to the 60s comes a new timeline to save and blessed characters.
Die Hart: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
“Die Hart” feels strange to watch in short clips, and with having to wait so long to see the end, it loses its luster quicker than if you got to watch all at once.
Greenleaf: Season 5 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The end if “Greenleaf” may not have begun as a triump finale to the 5 season series, but as it played on viewers’ nostalgia, you were reminded of how great it once was.
Servant: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While “Servant” sometimes feels like a mini-series that went on too long, with each major reveal, it renews interest and keeps you wanting more.
Esther Povitsky “Hot For My Name” Review/ Summary with Spoilers
At times, “Hot For My Name” may make you wish Esther Povitsky didn’t say no to MTV about a reality series, for her parents damn near steal what should be her moment.
Hightown: Season 1 – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
While “Hightown” struggles to find its groove at first, after discarding a few storylines and characters, it picks up the pace and becomes a reason to subscribe to Starz.
Legendary: Season 1 – Review/ Summary
The first season of “Legendary” has quite a few kinks to it, but there is a serious effort through the performances and backstories to compensate.
I May Destroy You: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (Spoilers)
“I May Destroy You” presents far more than a narrative about navigating life post being raped. It is a conversation starter with a wide range of topics.
I Am Not Okay With This: Season 1 – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
“I Am Not Okay With This” benefits from understanding the normalcy of weird, but its story, which sometimes drags, keeps it from being as good as its potential.
Gleipnir: Season 1 – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
While an inconsistent villain presence does sometimes plague “Gleipnir,” in terms of character investment and story? It goes beyond expectations.
Sing ‘Yesterday’ For Me: Season 1 – Review, Summary with Spoilers
“Sing ‘Yesterday’ For Me” does well in the beginning, but as time goes on, its pacing starts to dismantle its highlights.
Eric Andre: Legalize Everything – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
“Eric Andre: Legalize Everything” is pure and utter shock value that, if your tolerance is high, your laughs might be low.
Insecure: Season 4 – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
“Insecure,” after a lengthy hiatus, returns, and while it does contain explosive moments, it’s the quiet ones that bring out its best scenes.
Vida: Season 3 – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
After a ten-episode season in season 2, the 6 episode season 3 feels like a disservice to such a great show.
Love Life: Season 1 – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
While “Love Life” does avoid certain topics and stories to maintain its levity, it is definitely a hit for HBO Max for a reason.
8:46 (Dave Chappelle Special) – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
“8:46,” is Chappelle at his best – a storyteller, in the form of a wise-man, who makes you laugh enough to pay attention as he drops the knowledge you need.
Yvonne Orji: Momma, I Made It! – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
In “Momma, I Made It!” Yvonne Orji makes it clear “Insecure” didn’t make her who she is, all it did was put you on to someone already hilarious.
Motherland – Fort Salem: Season 1 – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
“Motherland – Fort Salem” reminds you why there is a craving for original ideas and not rehashed stories, be it in the form of remakes of novel adaptations.
Double Cross: Season 1 – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
“Double Cross,” undoubtedly, is one of the strongest shows released under UMC and will undoubtedly help their network gain traction like never before.
