The Hand-Maid’s Tale concludes its second season, with one of its best episodes—and one of its most problematic and controversial developments.
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June 29, 2018
The Expanse: “Congregation” and “Abaddon’s Gate”
The Expanse ends Season Three with an episode that expands the show’s horizons for a Season Four that will be happening.
June 22, 2018
The Expanse Review: “It Reaches Out,” “Intransigence,” “Dandelion Sky,” Fallen World”
The Expanse continues with its fourth third and, to date, best season, as characters old and new confront a thing both terrifying and unknown. The ring may be a Big Object, but it’s not a Dumb one.
June 20, 2018
Comic Television Discussion – Week beginning June 17th, 2018
`Lex Pendragon Superman/Smallville, TV Series
As Supergir’s Delayed Cap to season three hits, DC leaves for their summer vacation, just in time as Cloak & Dagger might actually work together this episode. Meanwhile, if you thought that you finally would have some free time, Luke Cage drops from Harlem (or Netflix) to take up your entire weekend on Friday!
[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut. (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]
June 19, 2018
TV Review: Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), Episode 1
Joan Lindsay’s notorious novel (1967) birthed a stage play and a classic of Aussie cinema (1975), a movie that manages to bridge Merchant Ivory and The Twilight Zone. The memorable picnic could make an intriguing mini-series (2018). It’s not clear, however, from the first episode, if that’s what we’re going to see.
June 13, 2018
Comic Television Discussion – Week beginning June 10th, 2018
`Lex Pendragon Superman/Smallville, TV Series
The shows continue to dwindle as Legion pretends to be the X-Files instead of the X-Men for his finale, and Legend and the Flash’s episode titler was bored with the end of those seasons and brings the pun game to Supergirl. Cloak & Dagger explorer alternative religions. In the world of ink and paint, where Big Hero 6 explore an EMP, and Spider-Man returns from his hiatus.
[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut. (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]
June 6, 2018
Comic Television Discussion – Week beginning June 3rd 2018
`Lex Pendragon Superman/Smallville, TV Series
I typically wouldn’t include animation, but if I didn’t, there would only be two shows to mention. Supergirl decides to vacation on a chunk of her homeworld while the rest of the crew have an After-School special reminding us that guns are bad, and Legion might actually reveal some things as we near the end of the season. Also, Legion got Season 3.
Also, feel free to be drawn into Big Hero 6’s television show. Let us know if it’s worth a few moments to watch it (and to continue mentioning it here.)
[ETA: I somehow missed Cloak and Dagger, it’s been added to this list.]
[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut. (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]
May 28, 2018
The Handmaid’s Tale: “Baggage,” “Other Women,” “Seeds,” “First Blood”
Season Two of The Handmaid’s Tale explores new aspects of Gileadean society, reveals the pasts of characters, weds Nick to a child-bride, and then….
May 25, 2018
The Expanse: “Delta V”
The Expanse may be saved by Amazon, and we may yet see another season. If we don’t, at least we have the remainder of Season Three, which plays like the start of a new season. Months have passed since the events depicted in “Immolation,” humans are trying to work together, our ragtag band of heroes have been, to some degree, separated, multiple new characters appear, and the protomolecule’s machinations have fabricated a vast and bewildering mystery object.
August 17, 2018
Watchmen comes to HBO
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HBO has confirmed the new Watchmen series, with some serious talent signed on, including Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Don Johnson, Louis Gossett Jr., and others. The long-discussed show will not be a literal adaptation of the groundbreaking graphic novel, though it will be set in its world and use material from the source.
So what will the show, due to start in 2019, be about?