I was late to the party on Sons of Anarchy, FX’s hit series that ran from 2008-2014. I watched the pilot and wasn’t super impressed by it, and I was also wrongly under the impression that a show about a biker gang wasn’t for me. Thankfully, enough buzz built up after the first season, and…
Hello, and welcome back to my look at Season 2 of the Marvel/Netflix collaboration, Iron Fist. Since this season was (thankfully) shorter than the previous, I’ll bring this feature to a close today with an examination of Episode 8: “Citadel on the Edge of Vengeance”; Episode 9: “War Without End”; and Episode 10: “A Duel…
Despite its utter failure to provide stability for the German people between the wars, the late Weimar Republic has been fabulously successful in another regard: providing the perfect morally dubious backdrop for generations of spy, political, and crime thrillers. If noir ever lived anywhere, it was in Weimar Berlin—amidst political and economic upheaval, social unrest,…
Hello, and welcome back to my look at the sophomore season of the Marvel/Netflix show Iron Fist. Last time, we kicked things off with a look at episodes 1-4, which weren’t great but were still way better than anything from the train wreck that was Iron Fist Season 1. Can the show continue to get…
Hello, and welcome back to my reviews of the Netflix corner of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe! If you go back and look at my reviews of Iron Fist Season 1 for Criminal Element, you’ll see I really tried to give the show a chance—it was just an overwhelmingly bad show. However, the end of The Defenders…
Summer’s dead days of TV are almost over, and September is looking good! Season 2 of Marvel’s Iron Fist combines with Black Panther and the latest season of The Walking Dead to highlight some killer streaming entertainment. See what other crime/mystery/thriller entertainment is coming to (and leaving) Netflix in September! What’s Coming to Netflix in September September 1 Assassins…
Life’s hard. People can be nasty jerks. Get over it. That’s the philosophy—as blunt as an uppercut, as bracing as a bourbon and branch for breakfast—shared by a quintet of fictional gumshoes I like to call the Great (But Pretty Much Forgotten) TV Detectives. Those cool, canny investigators who ruled the mean streets of series…
Danny Rand is just trying to keep the peace. Following a disappointing first season, Marvel’s Iron Fist looks to gain on the momentum of a fantastic Season 2 of Luke Cage with its own solo second season. Featuring an apparent love connection between Rand (Finn Jones) and Collen Wing (Jessica Henwick), a bionic-armed Misty Knight (Simone Missick), and…
So often, true crime documentaries focus on cases where the truth is unknown. New evidence either puts into question the conviction or reopens an investigation, and often times, the ambiguous ending can be frustrating. Netflix’s new true crime documentary, I Am a Killer, takes a different approach to true crime, interviewing death-row inmates about the murders…
George Pelecanos and David Simon (The Wire, Treme) are back with the second season of The Deuce, and as the trailer suggests, “everything has changed.” Jumping ahead five years from the events of Season 1, The Deuce tells the story of New York City’s famed 42nd Street—nicknamed “The Deuce”—from the early 70s to the mid-80s. Following the violence and corruption of…
