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Who would have guessed that the biggest accomplishment of the second season of Runaways would be humanizing its…

This feels like where we should be closer to the end of the season, right? Jonah is basically on full tilt, sick and…

So it looks like Topher is going to be mostly confined a two-parter, at least for now. By the end of “Rock Bottom,”…

Finally, some fresh blood... sort of. A lot of the running time of “Old School” is devoted to Topher. What’s his…

We’re only three episodes into the season, and one of the big plots has already been resolved, sort of. By the end…

“Radio On” is definitely a slower episode, starting to move pieces carefully into place so that they can inevitably…

Who knew it would take literal teenagers to make a Marvel show have even the slightest sense of play? There are…

If you thought “Reunited” moved quickly, buckle up your space seatbelts—it seems like Steven Universe is going to…

I should probably start this review by saying up front that I am on a lot medication and recovering from surgery...…

Like Annie and Owen’s trip to Salt Lake City, the actual destination of Maniac feels less important than the fact…

“Utangatta” follows in a long TV tradition of having the climactic action of a season happen in the penultimate…

It wouldn’t surprise me if “Ceci N’est Pas Une Drill” and “The Lake Of The Clouds” really were written as a…

“Ceci N’est Pas Une Drill” starts to get at a topic that could be a really fascinating, compelling kernel for Maniac:…

Goofy Maniac is back, and it’s got some momentum. “Larger Structural Issues” starts to set up the likely endgame of…

At one point during their attempted heist, Ollie—Owen’s incarnation in the 1940s setting of “Exactly Like You”—turns…

I don’t know, gang.

This is the first episode of Maniac where I really feel like I have a firm handle on the tone: This is a dark…

The second episode of Maniac picks up parallel to the first, tracking the events that led Annie to the drug trial…

Not everything is as it seems, but some things are.

With this arc, a ton of 150 episodes’ worth of Steven Universe storylines are starting to pay off in real, seemingly…