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Westworld 2.05: “Akane No Mai” Episode Review

By David Cranmer

May 22, 2018

Where have you gone, Toshiro Mifune, when this bland East-meets-West episode turns its eyes to you as Maeve’s (Thandie Newton) story arc crosses over into Shogun World. Hell, your stone-faced Red Sun costar Charles Bronson would be a welcome addition to what felt like “everything but the kitchen sink” of Japanese culture, and for all…

HBO and Sky Announce Upcoming Docuseries, The Case Against Adnan Syed

By Crime HQ

May 17, 2018

HBO and Sky (Europe’s largest pay TV provider) are working together to co-produce a new docuseries, The Case Against Adnan Syed, which is based on the 1999 killing of Baltimore high school student Hae Min Lee and subsequent conviction of ex-boyfriend Syed. In production since 2015, The Case Against Adnan Syed will further explore the events leading up to…

Westworld 2.04: “The Riddle of the Sphinx” Episode Review

By David Cranmer

May 15, 2018

This episode could easily have been named “The Riddle of Time” since it can be a head-scratcher trying to pinpoint where we are in the narrative—past, present, or past-past—as it jumps back and forth through a series of plotlines. Satisfaction is served up, though, as several major threads begin to tie into one another. Clementine…

Vote for the Westworld Character You Think Is Actually a Host

By Crime HQ

May 8, 2018

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Westworld 2.03: “Virtù e Fortuna” Episode Review

By David Cranmer

May 8, 2018

We begin this week in an entirely different park—colonial British India perhaps—where big-game hunting is the sin du jour. Two guests use a form of Russian roulette as a human/robot assay test before getting intimate … they’re looking for the real deal, you see. After their hookup, they head out to the grounds where things…

Westworld 2.02: “Reunion” Episode Review

By David Cranmer

The tantalizing twists and mysteries that were such a big part of the first season—and so lacking in last week’s Season 2 opener—returned in a small way in this episode, and it’s just enough to spur the interest. The Man in Black (Ed Harris) is, of course, finally in a game where the stakes are…

Westworld 2.01: “Journey Into Night” Episode Review

By David Cranmer

April 24, 2018

At the end of last season, the war had just begun. The robots—manufactured for the sole purpose of the sinful self-indulgence of humans—had developed full sentience after decades of being ravaged and then reprogrammed. All the while, their creator patiently honed them in preparation for their awakening … and for a reckoning. Season 2 picks…

The Deuce Season Finale, 1.08: “My Name Is Ruby” Episode Review

By Thomas Pluck

October 30, 2017

Take what comes. But show no ambition. Sandra learns that corruption and power are perpetual motion machines. Her source won’t go on the record. He’s taken a deal of his own and left her without a story of a city complicit in the sex trade. Rather, he’s given her “the same old story” of country…

The Deuce 1.07: “Au Reservoir” Episode Review

By Thomas Pluck

October 23, 2017

Well, I am a degenerate. I can be a nitpicky viewer, and last time I pointed out the lack of heroin in The Deuce’s fairy tale of New York. And what do you know? We get an overdose this time around, though I won’t say who. About midway through the episode, I started wondering where…

The Deuce 1.06: “Why Me?” Episode Review

By Thomas Pluck

October 16, 2017

After last week’s emotional high point, you have to expect a low, and this is an enjoyable coast toward the inevitable. We learn the why behind the “No Go Zone” of Times Square. The culmination of free speech rulings allowing pornographic films to be filmed in the United States and the Knapp Commission scaring the…

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