Tag: series
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Is Star Wars The Acolyte really “that” bad? – Review
There’s so much fear, hate and suffering surrounding the Internet discourse of The Acolyte that it’s tempting to let this review fall to countering arguments rather than critiquing the show itself. It would be much easier to review without all that noise and to be fair it would also be much easier to watch and…
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Star Trek Prodigy Season 2 – Review
Remember how Star Wars had its kids animated shows in Clone Wars and Rebels? And how they eventually evolved into a core part of the franchise with quality storytelling, popular with fans of all ages? Well, Star Trek Prodigy has pulled that off in only two seasons. The CG animation and kiddy characters and humour…
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Can Robots commit murder? – Netflix’s Pluto – Review
Netflix’s Pluto dropped last 2023 and I finally found the time to sit down and watch the eight-episode series. Let me tell you now, I was not expecting…
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A Return To Greatness – X-Men 97
I don’t even know who pitched a continuation of the old Saturday morning X-Men cartoon to Marvel.
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Fallout – Should they have stayed in the vault? – Review
Based on the game series of the same name by Interplay/Bethesda, Fallout sees us plunged 200 years into the future after the Earth was devastated by nuclear war.
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Adaptations in all but name
With the breakout success of Helldivers II, I revisited the movie Starship Troopers. Aside from the main premise, shooting bugs on alien worlds, the two properties share quite a few more similarities, parodying the war economy satirising propaganda and “managed democracy” so much so that aside from the name Helldivers II is a perfect game adaptation of the movie…
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Echo (series) – Review
After the superhero burnout that is the fourth phase of the MCU, it’s understandable if yet another Disney Marvel series pops up, you’d be less than even mildly bothered at all. Enter Echo, the latest addition to an already overflowing raft of Marvel episodic cannon. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an incredible time for quality…
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Welcome to Hazbin Hotel – Review
The doors are finally open and now it’s time for you to make a reservation at the Hazbin Hotel! When this peculiar little show by Vivienne (Vivziepop) Medrano dropped its pilot episode on YouTube around four years ago, a fandom was born that clamoured for more episodes. We were later treated to two seasons of…
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Masters of The Universe: Revolution – Review
Kevin Smith returns as writer in Masters of the Universe: Revolution, the sequel to the 2021 series MOTU: Revelation, now released in full on Netflix. We pick up some time after the prior season with the heroes going to Subternia to rescue the souls sent there by Skeletor during his attack on Eternos. Meanwhile, Skeletor…