TV Reviews – Consequence

Donald Glover and Maya Erskine Blow Up the Chapel of Love in Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Review

Liz Shannon Miller — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:00:36 +0000

This compelling new take on the 2005 film features fake-married spies catching real feelings.

Donald Glover and Maya Erskine Blow Up the Chapel of Love in Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Review
Liz Shannon Miller

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 12 Begins By Making You Wish It Wasn’t Ending

Liz Shannon Miller — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 14:00:14 +0000

The final season of Larry David's long-running comedy series returns on February 4th.

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 12 Begins By Making You Wish It Wasn’t Ending
Liz Shannon Miller

Jacqueline Novak Goes Deep on Going Down in Get On Your Knees: Review

Liz Shannon Miller — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:15:52 +0000

The new Netflix comedy special is a tour de force with one thing on its mind.

Jacqueline Novak Goes Deep on Going Down in Get On Your Knees: Review
Liz Shannon Miller

In The Know Shows Satirical Promise in Wonderfully Animated First Season: Review

Jonah Krueger — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:00:41 +0000

The Pitch: Lauren Caspian (Zach Woods) is a cultural titan, a modern thinker for a modern world, a warrior of intellectualism and societal progression — at least, that’s how he’d describe himself. In reality, he’s NPR’s third-most listened-to host operating out of an underfunded, barely functional studio in New York…

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The Curse Finale’s Shocking Twists Fall Short of Satisfying: Review

Paolo Ragusa — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 06:00:49 +0000

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of The Curse, “Green Queen.”] For a show that constantly threatened supernatural carnage, The Curse often opted to let the audience’s imagination fill in the blanks. Was the “tiny curse” that Nala (Hikmah Warsame) placed on Asher (Nathan Fielder) in…

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The Final Episode of Marvel’s Echo Hopefully Isn’t the Last of Maya Lopez

Liz Shannon Miller — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:32:44 +0000

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers through the season finale of Echo, “Maya.”] The final episode of Echo features a sequence that you couldn’t have predicted coming: The climatic confrontation between Maya (Alaqua Cox) and Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) could have gone a lot of ways, of course, but Chula (Tantoo…

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True Detective: Night Country Review: An Invigorating Reinvention of HBO’s Hit Crime Series

Clint Worthington — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:00:31 +0000

2024's first great season of television is already here.

True Detective: Night Country Review: An Invigorating Reinvention of HBO’s Hit Crime Series
Clint Worthington

The Crown Season 6 Concludes as a Study in Empathy: Review

Liz Shannon Miller — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:01:58 +0000

In recent months, creator Peter Morgan and even Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos have begun referring to The Crown as “a love letter to Queen Elizabeth II.” It’s a description that feels a little out of alignment with the reality of the show, if only when you consider the real-life royal…

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Netflix’s Obliterated Is Fun, But Only in Small Doses: Review

Clint Worthington — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:01:39 +0000

The Pitch: It’s not hard to imagine the elevator pitch for Netflix’s new action-comedy show Obliterated: What if The Hangover had stakes beyond a missing bachelor? Dutifully, and with raunchy relish, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald, the minds behind Cobra Kai — another Netflix show that valorizes the oo-rah fuck-yeah media…

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Squid Game: The Challenge Review: A Grotesque Distortion of the Original

Liz Shannon Miller — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:22:48 +0000

In Netflix's reality spinoff, the dystopia of the present day gets a little too literal.

Squid Game: The Challenge Review: A Grotesque Distortion of the Original
Liz Shannon Miller

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Has Too Many Humans, Not Enough Godzilla: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:00:01 +0000

The Pitch: Of all the post-MCU multiverses that studios scrambled to build after the success of Marvel’s The Avengers in 2012, Legendary’s MonsterVerse has strangely held up the strongest over time. It helps, of course, that its foundations are built on the same kind of shared universe conceit as the original…

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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Is Ballsy As Hell: Review

Jonah Krueger — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 08:01:28 +0000

[Editor’s note: For more Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, check out our spoiler interview with the creators.] The Pitch: Not so long ago, in the mysterious land of Toronto, Canada, Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) was dating a high schooler. But when Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), quite literally the girl of…

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Fargo Year 5 Takes on 2019 for a Tighter, Still Terrifying Crime Fable: Review

Liz Shannon Miller — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:00:43 +0000

The Pitch: It’s the fall of 2019, one Presidential administration and a lifetime ago, and seemingly content suburban wife and mother Dot Lyon (Juno Temple) has landed herself in a spot of trouble after getting arrested for tasering a police officer at a PTA meeting. Not because of any potential…

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A Murder at the End of the World Review: An Intriguing Mystery, a More Intriguing Detective

Liz Shannon Miller — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:00:27 +0000

The Pitch: Darby Hart (Emma Corrin), thanks to being raised by a coroner, knows an awful lot about death, and how it’s investigated. She’s also a skilled computer hacker and a newly-published author of a true-crime book, and it’s at least one of those talents which leads to her receiving…

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The Curse Is Loaded, Unsettling, and Magnificent: Review

Paolo Ragusa — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:01:06 +0000

The Pitch: Married couple Whitney (Emma Stone) and Asher Seigel (Nathan Fielder) have struck a deal with HGTV to produce the pilot of their new eco-driven home flipping show, titled Flipanthropy. Set in what Whitney refers to as her hometown (it’s not) of Española, New Mexico, the show aims to follow Whitney…

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