Sugar Season 2 Review: A Noir With a Telescope It Barely Uses
Sugar Season 2 picks up a question Season 1 detonated and then declines to answer with any real conviction. The...
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A berry comb should not be the most thrilling object on television, yet here we are. Will Longley dragging a handmade tool across bushes to strip fruit by the handful is exactly the kind of small, practical revelation that keeps Alone alive after thirteen seasons. The show can call this new run a “World Championship” all it wants. The real championship is still a person alone in the mud, realizing that a clever stick might be the difference between dinner and a long night of thinking about dinner. Season 13 sends ten survivalists from seven countries into the Canadian Arctic...

Eddie Owens enters the film already varnished for judgment, his mother smoothing spray tan over a body built to be seen and a life designed to stay hidden. The image is funny for about half a second. Then it curdles. Joanne, played with raw, hazardous warmth by Tammy Blanchard, is helping her son prepare for a bodybuilding competition while he stands near-naked in a posing sock, and Sam McConnell lets the scene sit long enough for its affection to become claustrophobic. Test, directed by McConnell and written by star Brock Yurich, treats bodybuilding as a visual system before it treats...

A crab in a London high-rise should not feel like a labor dispute, yet that is the first sharp joke in The Peril At Pincer Point. Jim Baitte wakes to screaming, finds the creature loose in his flat, receives a strange pinch, and carries the mark like an invoice from a world he has not yet agreed to enter. The image is absurd, tactile, and cleanly symbolic: something ancient has invaded the sterile apartment of a modern creative worker, and it has come with claws. Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine’s feature debut turns that pinch into a whole cinematic weather...

Carol’s fantasy blooms in a bed of red poppies, then breaks under the news of a woman falling to her death. That fracture tells us almost everything DreamQuil wants to be: erotic escape interrupted by mortality, domestic silence pierced by a body on the pavement, private desire invaded by a husband standing outside the pod. Alex Prager’s feature debut, co-written with Vanessa Prager, lives inside that fracture. Its near-future world is poisoned by air so poor that people move through public space with transparent masks, half human and half display object. Carol, played by Elizabeth Banks, lives with Gary, played...

A rental agreement that includes ghosts in the fine print is already a warning; waking up with whiskers the next morning turns it into a workplace injury. Mousebusters knows the value of that absurdity. Its setup is immediate, clean, and very much in the Odencat lane: a young man moves into a new apartment, sleeps through his first night, and discovers that he has been turned into a tiny mouse. Soon after, he meets Chief, another former tenant in rodent form, who recruits him into a two-mouse ghost-hunting squad. That premise gives the game a sturdy frame for a short,...

A missing girl, a sinking phone, and a private beach full of bored heirs give Netflix Spain exactly the kind of summer property its algorithm knows how to sell. Oasis has a luxury resort, a police lockdown, a class divide sharp enough to cut through the sunscreen, and a cast of beautiful young people ready to turn a criminal investigation into a social event. The machine knows its audience. The question is what the machine thinks that audience deserves. Created by Ramón Campos, Jon de la Cuesta, and David Orea, the eight episode series takes place at Oasis Infinity, an...
Sugar Season 2 picks up a question Season 1 detonated and then declines to answer with any real conviction. The...
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Read moreDetailsJames Burrows, the most prolific and decorated comedy director in American television history, died Friday at 85. His family confirmed he passed peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after a brief illness. The numbers alone are staggering: more than 1,000 sitcom episodes directed across five decades, 11 Emmy Awards, five Directors...
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Read moreA berry comb should not be the most thrilling object on television, yet here we are. Will Longley dragging a handmade tool across bushes to strip fruit by the handful...
Eddie Owens enters the film already varnished for judgment, his mother smoothing spray tan over a body built to be seen and a life designed to stay hidden. The image...
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