Reviews of television shows
After the absolute emotional body blows of “Confessions and Lamentations” and “The Long Twilight Struggle” you would think we would be in for a bit of a break, but “Divided Loyalties” piles on. The stakes are lowered somewhat from entire … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Divided Loyalties”
Hot Diggity Doom | Aired: June 5, 2015 | Written & storyboarded by: Thomas Herpich & Steve Wolfhard | Reviewed by Lyssie So – election time! King of Ooo shows up, and just like that there’s an election for princess … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Hot Diggity Doom” and “The Comet”
Fry wonders if Leela is really their soulmate. Doesn’t have insanity peppers or space coyotes, but they do their best with the premise. Continue reading Futurama – Season 13, Episode 3: “Fifty Shades of Green”
This is probably the episode I revisit most often from Season 2. Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas are absolutely amazing in every scene, two legendary scifi guest actors nail their scenes, several huge pieces of plot get resolved or moved … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“The Long Twilight Struggle”
Graybles Allsorts Boarded by Steve Wolfhard, Geneva Hodgson, and Patty Guo Aired: July 6, 2015 – November 1, 2015 Reviewed by: CedricTheOwl Somewhere during production of season 6, Adventure Time also started work on a series of shorts that would … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – Graybles Allsorts and On the Lam
In which Futurama does a worse version of a story it already did 23 years ago. Continue reading Futurama – Season 13, Episode 2: “The World Is Hot Enough”
This one is a bit of a gut punch of an episode, and one that JMS was proud of mostly for subverting convention. I think it hits harder these days, because when I first watched the AIDS epidemic, which it … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Confessions and Lamentations”
Be Sweet Air Date: June 2, 2015 Storyboarded by: Seo Kim and Somvilay Xayaphone Reviewed by Prestidigititis Today’s first Adventure Time episode is a calamity. A series of calamities, really, inspired by the actions and inactions of a couple of … Continue reading Come Along With Me: “Be Sweet” and “Orgalorg”
Babylon 5 may be the show I have watched the most in my life. I have seen it all the way through at least ten times over the years. Because of that, these days I tend to jump around a … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…- “In the Shadow of Z’ha’Dum”
Welcome one and all to season 7 of Adventure Time reviews! We’re back to the standard 26 episode season format, but season 7 introduces a new wrinkle to the Adventure Time formula: the miniseries. Seasons 7 through 9 each include … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time Season 7 Central Hub and Sign-up Thread
Water Park Prank Air Date: May 21, 2015 | Directed, Written and Storyboarded by David Ferguson | Reviewed by Malcolm Rambert When I decided to write for this ongoing series on The Avocado, I wanted to abstain from picking episodes … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Water Park Prank” and “You Forgot Your Floaties
This episode has a middling reputation among fans, at least when compared to the rest of the really great episodes of the back half of Season 2. I have always liked it myself. I like that the nuts and bolts … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Knives”
Graybles 1000+Written by: Steve Wolfhard, from a story by Kent Osborne, Pendleton Ward, Jack Pendarvis, Steve Wolfhard, and Adam MutoDirected by: Andres SalaffReview by LibraryLass In the distant future– though not quite as far in the future as these framing … Continue reading Come Along With Me: “Graybles 1000+” and “Hoots”
This is another more procedural episode, nothing too earth shattering from a story arc perspective, but it does rely on previous episodes which I like. Also it deals with essentially an officer involved shooting and it deals with it more … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“There All the Honor Lies”
Babylon 5 was a show that was determined to show that long form television was viable for all kinds of shows, not just soap operas. This was a decently bold vision for the time, and something of an experiment for … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“And Now for a Word”
I’ve always had conflicting feelings about this one. Jermaine finally introduces Finn & Jake’s brother, mentioned in passing several times but never actually properly featured as a character. And unlike our heroes, Jermaine isn’t a free-spirited adventurer. He’s more buttoned … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Jermaine” and “Chips and Ice Cream”
I consider this episode another in the “its the 90’s” category. We get a look into the case being built against President Clark, and we get some scenes that are very X-Files-ish. Also there are echoes of the present day … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…- “Hunter, Prey”
This episode is a tremendous downer that advances the Narn-Centauri War arc, paired with by far one of the most cringe-inducing plots and scenes in the show, at least for me. We begin to see the Narns in a more … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Acts of Sacrifice”
At this point in its run, Adventure Time is no stranger to questions of complicated morality. Situations where it’s hard to know the right thing to do, or where characters we root for do things we don’t. Hell, earlier this … Continue reading Come Along With Me: “Dark Purple” and “The Diary”
All Alone in the Night is a good arc heavy episode, concerned with moving some pieces around to support further story lines, but also giving us a good old fashioned alien abduction story at it’s center. It is part of … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“All Alone in the Night”
