TV Reviews10/19/20Oct 191TV Reviews10/19/20BTV ReviewsWe Are Who We Are captures the disorienting power of a crushKayla Kumari Upadhyaya7A consistent strength of We Are Who We Are has been its ability to give very high stakes to very low-stakes…
TV Reviews10/17/20Oct 17SaveTV Reviews10/17/20C+TV ReviewsIf ghost stories and love stories are the same, The Haunting Of Bly Manor should be better at bothKayla Kumari Upadhyaya119“You said it was a ghost story. It isn’t. It’s a love story.”
TV Reviews10/16/20Oct 16SaveTV Reviews10/16/20D+TV ReviewsThe Haunting Of Bly Manor loses steam with its origin-story episodeKayla Kumari Upadhyaya108One of the many tricky bits of constructing effective horror is determining how much to explain. Things go bump in…
TV Reviews10/15/20Oct 15SaveTV Reviews10/15/20B+TV ReviewsPeter Quint is The Haunting Of Bly Manor’s scariest monsterKayla Kumari Upadhyaya88We have very little control over our memories. Remembering an event, a person, a place doesn’t always feel like a…
TV Reviews10/14/20Oct 14SaveTV Reviews10/14/20B+TV ReviewsMemories are a trap in another disorienting Haunting Of Bly ManorKayla Kumari Upadhyaya67Henry Wingrave has mostly been a background character up until this point. He hires Dani in the first episode, and…
TV Reviews10/13/20Oct 13SaveTV Reviews10/13/20ATV ReviewsThe Haunting Of Bly Manor devastates and disturbs in its dizzying time-jump episodeKayla Kumari Upadhyaya66“The Altar Of The Dead” is a remarkable chapter of The Haunting Of Bly Manor. At the heart of it rests a perfectly…
TV Reviews10/12/20Oct 12SaveTV Reviews10/12/20B-TV ReviewsEveryone harbors secrets in an uneven We Are Who We AreKayla Kumari Upadhyaya12“Surprise, I exist outside of your mind,” Caitlin says to Fraser after he says the moustache she’s painting onto…
TV Reviews10/12/20Oct 12SaveTV Reviews10/12/20C+TV ReviewsThe Haunting Of Bly Manor misses the mark with Dani’s backstoryKayla Kumari Upadhyaya93I wish this were a more obvious statement, but good queer representation does not mean queer characters have to be…
TV Reviews10/11/20Oct 11SaveTV Reviews10/11/20B+TV ReviewsReal-life horrors haunt Bly Manor in an episode full of flashbacksKayla Kumari Upadhyaya49“The Two Faces, Part One” opens with a great sonic transition from classic frenetic horror strings into “Tainted…
TV Reviews10/10/20Oct 10SaveTV Reviews10/10/20A-TV ReviewsNothing is as it seems in The Haunting Of Bly ManorKayla Kumari Upadhyaya104The most explicit connection between The Haunting Of Bly Manor and its predecessor The Haunting Of Hill House is…
TV Reviews10/9/20Oct 91TV Reviews10/9/20A-TV ReviewsThe Haunting Of Bly Manor introduces TV’s latest haunted houseKayla Kumari Upadhyaya90The year is 1987, and a young American woman named Dani (Victoria Pedretti) takes a job at as an au pair in the…
TV Reviews10/5/20Oct 5SaveTV Reviews10/5/20B-TV ReviewsWe Are Who We Are revels in teen chaosKayla Kumari Upadhyaya19“Right Here, Right Now IV” lives in the space of teenage fantasy. The school-less, parent-less, unsupervised,…
TV Reviews9/28/20Sep 28SaveTV Reviews9/28/20B+TV ReviewsWe Are Who We Are plays several games of tug-of-warKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11“Right Here, Right Now III” plunges us into the depths of Fraser and Caitlin’s friendship, which has grown quickly…
TV Reviews9/21/20Sep 21SaveTV Reviews9/21/20BTV ReviewsWe Are Who We Are dips into a different perspective and finds greater urgencyKayla Kumari Upadhyaya30Episode two of We Are Who We Are retraces the steps of the pilot, situating us in Caitlin’s perspective rather than…
TV Reviews9/14/20Sep 14SaveTV Reviews9/14/20BTV ReviewsLuca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are doesn't know what it is yetKayla Kumari Upadhyaya37Anyone who’s seen Luca Guadagnino’s work, including his acclaimed adaptation of Call Me By Your Name, will find the…
TV Reviews7/25/20Jul 25SaveTV Reviews7/25/20B-TV ReviewsHBO Max’s Frayed tells several coming-of-age stories, but struggles to weave them togetherKayla Kumari Upadhyaya11Frayed—which previously aired in the U.K. and Australia and was recently picked up by HBO Max—tracks the sudden…
TV Club 107/21/20Jul 215TV Club 107/21/20TV Club 1010 episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess that solidified its queer legacyKayla Kumari Upadhyaya97The hero of Xena: Warrior Princess perishes and is resurrected multiple times over the course of the show’s…
TV Reviews7/12/20Jul 12SaveTV Reviews7/12/20BTV ReviewsSnowpiercer’s two-part finale can't shake the character problems it’s picked up along the wayKayla Kumari Upadhyaya68In the first half of its two-part season finale, Snowpiercer barrels toward an inevitable team-up: Layton and…
TV Reviews7/5/20Jul 5SaveTV Reviews7/5/20BTV ReviewsSnowpiercer crafts an action-packed episode that's short on character developmentKayla Kumari Upadhyaya38How many members of the Tail can you name? It is a part of my job to learn the names of television characters so I…
TV Reviews6/28/20Jun 28SaveTV Reviews6/28/20C+TV ReviewsSnowpiercer misfires with a major character deathKayla Kumari Upadhyaya27Snowpiercer’s Melanie Cavill problem is getting harder to overcome.