Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 8 – The Redemption
When looking at the individual episodes of a television show, especially with a property so carefully-managed like Star Wars, it’s hard to find ...
Tag: Westerns
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 7 – The Reckoning
After episodes of world-building, character-building, and who-knows-what-else, The Mandalorian season one finally rounds back to the inciting incident for the show. I’ve been ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 6 – The Prisoner
One of the clear strengths of The Mandalorian, especially in the earlier episodes, is that the eponymous character is not perfect—far from it. ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 5 – The Gunslinger
Generally, I abhor the term “filler” when it comes to television. Even when an episode doesn’t make too many strides in long-term plot ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 4 – Sanctuary
If anyone watching The Mandalorian had somehow missed that this show was a Western, here is an episode that is pretty blatant with ...
Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 2 – The Child
So this is the kind of show The Mandalorian will be, eh? After an intriguing series premiere, the second episode of this Star ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 3 – The Sin
It has been hard to see most of the Star Wars stuff in the Disney era to be nothing more than homages to ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian (Season 1, Episode 1)
Star Wars was never meant to be a giant pop culture phenomenon, nor was it envisioned as a prime example of the capitalist ...
El Camino reminded me why I love Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad aired its final episode on September 29, 2013. Walter White’s ascension (or was it a descent?) from mild-mannered chemistry teacher to ...
Features
C What’s Good: What to watch on the Criterion Channel for September 2019
C What’s Good is the monthly follow-up piece to our C What’s On round-up of the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming. Leaping off of the hard ...
Watch the first trailer for The Mandalorian now
At this point, The Mandalorian needs little in the way of introduction. It’s the first live-action series in the Star Wars universe. It’s ...
Reviews
Review: The Nightingale
The Nightingale is a rough film. Which is to say, it covers some serious ground in its trek across the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, ...