Aug 7
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A lot of my praise for this season of The Umbrella Academy has come with the caveat that I just have to have faith…
Caroline Siede
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Contributor, The A.V. Club. Caroline Siede is a pop culture critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. Her interests include superhero movies, feminist theory, and Jane Austen novels.
Aug 6
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B-
The Umbrella Academy isn’t particularly great at plot. For instance, “Öga For Öga” is a pointless runaround story…
Aug 5
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Two episodes in a row where The Umbrella Academy’s characters actually sit down and have a full conversation? Be…
Aug 4
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B+
“Hell yeah, family meeting!” You took the words right out of my mouth, Diego. Halfway through season two someone…
Aug 3
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B
After an early test screening of The Little Mermaid, Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg had one big…
Aug 3
2
B+
More so than any other live action superhero series I’ve ever seen, the opening of “Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E. Part One”…
Aug 3
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B-
“That’s the thing about the Commission, isn’t it? Some things just don’t make sense, until they do.”
Aug 2
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B+
“The Swedish Job” takes on a tall order. It wants to move the show’s central apocalypse story forward, deliver some…
Aug 1
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B
The Commission has never been my favorite element of The Umbrella Academy. Though Cha-Cha and especially Hazel had…
Jul 31
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The first season of The Umbrella Academy had a lot going for it: Heaps of style, an engaging cast, and some…
Jul 31
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If there’s one thing I took away from my four years at theater school, it’s that plays are meant to be seen, not…
Jul 27
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B+
The problem with airing an episode as momentous as “Brainwave Jr.” is that you have to figure out how to follow it…
Jul 24
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C
Netflix’s much-beloved 2018 “Summer Of Love” lineup came with one major misfire: Vince Marcello’s regressive,…
Jul 20
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A
There are so many reveals in “Brainwave Jr.” it’s hard to know where to begin. Henry Jr. is Starman’s nephew?…
Jul 17
4
It took Amy Heckerling a while to realize she’d written an Emma homage. Her TV pilot script centered on a rich,…
Jul 13
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B
So far, Stargirl has sorted its characters into neat categories: The bullies are the bad guys and the underdogs are…
Jul 8
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While hosting the 2018 Tony Awards, Sara Bareilles self-deprecatingly joked that she makes music you might hear at a…
Jul 6
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After her exhilarating battle with Cindy in “Shiv Part One,” Courtney is forced to take a breather this week, and Sta…
Jul 3
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By 2000, Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey both wanted a change. She’d burst onto the scene with Selena, found…
Jun 29
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Despite their opposing views on cheerleading, Courtney Whitmore and Cindy Burman are more alike than they realize.…