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…
“These people that we work for, I used to think we were different than them.” Season 2 of Ozark is almost here! Add in one of the greatest Coen Brothers films and a ton of Netflix Originals and we know how we’re spending the dog days of summer… See what other crime/mystery/thriller entertainment is coming to…
New world. New rules. Last Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, AMC released the trailer for Season 9 of The Walking Dead, which will be veteran actor Andrew Lincoln’s last season as protagonist Rick Grimes. Confirming the rumor, Lincoln added: “I love this show, it means everything to me. I love the people that make this show.…
As several philosophers will tell you, all things eventually transform into their opposites. To see the proof of that, we need look no further than the final three episodes of Luke Cage Season 2. Luke (Mike Colter), who has sought to avoid shifting from Harlem’s hero to just another destructive force hurting his neighbors, finds…
Episode 7 ended in a bloodbath (Comanche, Piranha, Captain Ridenhour, Mariah’s brownstone), so it’s no surprise that Episode 8 has the cops rushing in and taking things over. We’ve come to that point in the crime story where the damage has grown so great that law enforcement starts getting the bulk of the face time.…
