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“Our Bodies, Our Elves” features everything a great episode of Disenchantment should have: a simple, absurd premise…

“The Lonely Heart Is A Hunter” basically contains one joke, but it’s a pretty funny joke and it’s taken in just…

“The Very Thing” places the finishing touches on resetting Disenchantment’s status quo, which means our three heroes…

Disenchantment began with a two-episode story about Bean’s doomed marriage ceremony and the beginning of new…

After a year on hiatus, Disenchantment returns with the second part of its 20-episode first season, and everyone’s…

An obvious benefit of a crowded television landscape, where original programming seems to burst from every network…

Following a day in the life of a medical transport driver, Kirill Mikhanovsky’s Give Me Liberty is a portrait of…

Though technically a film, with all of its corresponding qualities, After The Wedding primarily exists as an actor’s…

Baskets has remained tonally consistent over the past three seasons. The extended Baskets clan—Chip (co-creator and…

The Last Black Man In San Francisco feels like an expulsion of everything director Joe Talbot and star Jimmie Fails…

“Telling the truth is the right thing to do, right?”

Barry generally tends to let its Hollywood satire exist in the margins. Its main comedic targets are actorly…

John and Molly Chester’s entire life changed when they adopted Todd, their beloved rescue dog. After his incessant…

For the first hour of David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., Betty Elms, played by Naomi Watts, is naiveté incarnate. An…

“Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred clichés move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among…

The first thing you notice is the title card, which appears without a cold open or accompanying fanfare. Then, it’s…

“I pray that human beings can change their nature. Because if we can’t, then you and I are in deep trouble.”—Gene…

Personally speaking, reactive performances are generally much more interesting to watch than traditionally active…

“Am I evil?” Barry quietly asks Hank. “Am I, like, an evil person?”

The first time you see Aretha Franklin in Amazing Grace, she’s walking down the aisle of the New Temple Missionary…