Category: TV Review

Patrice Robotnick Reports on How Coronavirus is Affecting the Entertainment Industry’s Health

LB’S NOTE: As I mentioned last week in a post some visitors found heart-breaking and most others ignored (don’t worry, I’m over both reactions now…well kind of anyway), for the time being I’m the sole member of Team TVWriter™ who’s working on this site everyday.

Fortunately for all of us, however, I’m not entirely alone.

Thanks to the marvels of modern artificial intelligence technology and the mad skills of TV Writer University alums Dawn McElligott and Allie Theiss TVWriter™ now has a new robot/AI staff writer, Ms. Patrice Robotnick, whose professional history includes – well, it doesn’t include anything because she just achieved consciousness last Sunday. read article

ST: Picard Season 1 Finale, for better and, unfortunately, for worse

NOTE FROM LB: I’ve enjoyed watching Star Trek: Picard on CBS All-Access, but have to admit feeling guilty about doing so. In fact, I’m often truly ashamed of myself.

I love seeing so many Next Generation and Voyager characters again, but I hate seeing the way the stories (actually only one overarching story) treat them. And, in the process, treat Gene Roddenberry, creator and Great Bird of the Universe.

I’m not objecting to the way the characters are portrayed, per se, but to the context we see them in. This ain’t a Roddenberry universe, my friends, not by a longshot. As far as I’m concerned, Michael Chabon and company have royally screwed my early ’70s mentor, the aforementioned Great Bird. read article

Star Trek: Picard Review – Who is Brent Spiner Really Playing?

TVWriter™ doesn’t do a lot of TV episode reviews these days, but this one – discovered on IndieWire.Com definitely has caught our attention. This TVWriter™ minion definitely is lovin’ Christian Blauvelt’s intriguing reasoning!

Brent Spiner as Alton Soong of the the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: PICARD. Photo Cr: Aaron Epstein/CBS ©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

by Christian Blauvelt

Consider this writer impressed.

“Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1” does a spectacular job of synthesizing the style of “The Next Generation” with that of “The Original Series” — and the result is something new altogether. read article

DOCTOR WHO Series 12 Finale Explained

“Spoilers? Who cares about steenkin’ spoilers?”

We know, a lot of people do. Sometimes we here at TVWriter™ are among them. But not this time around. Because every single one of us slaving away for our Beloved Leader Larry Brody agrees that knowing the info in this essay by Kyle Anderson on nerdist.com richer.

Not only that, it also has made the entirety of our Doctor Who experience fuller and just plain more fun. Ignore this if you must, but enjoy it if you, erm, you know, mustn’t. read article

Why ‘Mr. Robot’ is the Most Thought-Provoking TV Series in History

You thought The Good Place was profound?

Pshaw!

Emma Fraser knows the Truth. (And so does Mr. Robot. Bwahh!) read article