Category: TV Review

The Thousand and One Opinions of ‘Star Trek: Discovery – ‘Brother’

Anson Mount as Capt. Pike, from Siskoid’s

Fans have been arguing about whether CBS’ Star Trek: Discovery is absolute genius or total dreck since the series premiered in 2018. Now it’s 2019 (“Oh, really? I’ll be damned”), and last week brought us the second season premiere–

Which, believe it or don’t, has begotten a whole new, ahem, “discussion” of genius versus dreck, shit versus Shinola, and on and on and on. Inasmuch as our feckless leader, Larry Brody, was an early disciple of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry (in other words, he spent much of his early career working for the Great Bird His Very Self, writing for a variety of projects including ST:TAS, ST: TNG, and ST:VOYAGER) we here at TVWriter™ also have found ourselves caught up in the debate, we thought we’d give y’all some samples of current thinking.

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From the Cable Graveyard to Netflix Darling: Something Amazing Happened to ‘YOU’

by Rick Drew

Love it or loathe it, YOU, the series that drew little attention when the dark anti-hero thriller/romance first aired on the Lifetime network, has become a viral hit after re-premiering on Netflix in December of 2018.

The modest ten-episode series that barely reached a viewership of 600,000 in its initial broadcast hit the 40,000,000 mark when it landed on the international streaming service. read article

Siskoid’s Blog Gives Us the Lowdown on ‘Friends from College’

One of our favorite fan blogs, Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery, comes through with a review of a series most of us here at TVWriter™ would have to admit that we not only haven’t seen, we also haven’t heard of.

The series is on Netflix, a place that fascinates us because not only does it do what, you know, we all expect a streaming media site to do, it also write the best series loglines on the interwebs. You know, like this:

Twenty years after graduation, a tight-knit group of college friends reconnects and discovers that love hasn’t gotten easier with age. read article

CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA might be the darkest TV show I’ve ever seen

We don’t have much to say about the series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, but that’s because we’ve never watched it.

At first the problem was a simple one: Nobody over here at TVWriter™ had time. Because let’s face it – there’s one hell of a lot TV out there to try and keep up with.

Now the prob’s a little more complicated. Now that one or two of us here do have the time, guess what? We’re afraid. Seriously, we’re scared of how CAOS will make us feel…because of chilling and well-crafted articles like this one: read article

Wynne McLaughlin sees ‘The Kominsky Method’

NOTE FROM LB: Wynne McLaughlin is a video game rock star – what else would you call the lead writer of The Elder Scrolls Online and The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, among other things? – and one of my favorite guys to hang with here online (because he’s not exactly in my Puget Sound nabe, you know? But if he was we’d be on the beach crabbing together right now…)

You get the idea, yeah? And in this short review Wynne makes sure we get his idea, and pronto. Talk about a hell of a lede:

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