Nick Wanserski's posts

Ask horror-movie buffs to name their favorite decade for the genre, and you’ll likely receive a variety of answers.…

The mightier the villain does not always mean the mightier the hero. Here are 26 fictional characters who met their…

This is a purely anecdotal feeling on my part, completely uninformed by any actual data or research; but I feel…

If you read Savage Love or any other progressive, sex-positive advice column, you’ll occasionally come across…

I was a little surprised when tonight’s episode began. It took some real chutzpah for The Orville to return to a…

I probably wouldn’t have been so quick to use a Futurama Space Pope reference if I knew how frequently the show…

Well, it appears an unexpected invasion of homicidal robots went and put the fear of Avis in everyone and…

I’ll admit to feeling a little uneasy last week that The Orville would back out of its genocidal robot army…

By my own biases, I’m predisposed toward reviewing a television show more favorably if it features a cavern of…

“I wonder how long we’re going to put up with them?” Ed muses to Kelly towards the end of tonight’s episode,…

In Minneapolis, we, like a significant portion of the Midwest, are finally clawing out of the wretched,…

It was the moment she said she was cold. I don’t know if it’s that Lt. Janel Tyler (Michaela McManus) just felt more…

About halfway through tonight’s episode, “Home”, Alara Kitan, chief security officer for the Orville, is sitting on…

Bortus is into some kinky shit. That’s not the actual takeaway from tonight’s episode, which confronts how poor…

“Ja’loja,” tonight’s premiere for the second season of The Orville, was a low-key outing completely lacking in…

Here we are at the finale of Matthew Weiner’s elaborate, decadent, and befuddling experiment in tangentially Russian…

“End of the Line” is a tense, engaging episode of The Romanoffs that is also the first to realize the potential of…

In the six episodes leading up to this one, each story has treated the titular Romanoff bloodline like a vestigial…

“Bright and High Circle” presents a standard plot setup. Katherine (Diane Lane), a professor of Russian Literature…