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Watch Closely: New Year, New Format, New TV

I’m going to try out a new format in 2023. Along with posting longer reviews of single series, I will also be experimenting with a new (weekly!) format where I include several features in one column.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: "Watch Closely", Peg Aloi, Raised by Wolves, The School for Good and Evil, Woman of the Dead

Television Review: “Koala Man” — Rowdy Aussie Hijinks

The animation itself is akin to what you will see in familiar domestic cartoons, such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Bob’s Burgers. So it’s the quirky humor that makes Koala Man uniquely Australian.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Koala Man, Michael Cusack

Television Review: “Dance Monsters” — Do the Monster Mash

If dancing around as a giant CGI monster makes someone happy, then that is enough to make me happy. Let’s embrace what makes us different and do what we love.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Ashley Banjo, Dance Monsters, Lele Pons. Ne-Yo, Netflix, Sarah Osman

Arts Commentary: It’s Not Funny — “Saturday Night Live” and the Mark Twain Prize

Adam Sandler receiving a Mark Twain Prize is one more SNL achievement that defies understanding.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Adam Sandler, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Television Review: “Kindred” — More than a Mystery

In this adaptation for Hulu, Octavia E. Butler’s hybrid sci-fi novel has been reduced to a misguided time travel mystery.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Black Literature, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Hulu, Kindred, Octavia E. Butler, science-fiction

WATCH CLOSELY: “1899” — A Sumptuous Terror

1899‘s excellent design work makes this series an opulent and memorable visual odyssey.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: 1899, Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, Netflix, Peg Aloi

Arts Feature: According to Our Critics — The Best That TV Offered in 2022

Were we able to watch all the new TV shows we wanted to in 2022? Hell, no! But here are some favorites.

By: Peg Aloi and Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Television Tagged: Matt Hanson, Peg Aloi, Sarah Osman

WATCH CLOSELY: The Horror of Pork Chops — “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”

The series is wise to center its attention on Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims as often as possible. This is a heartbreaking saga of lives lost to a homicidal maniac.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Evan Peters, Jeffrey Dahmer, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Ryan Murphy, serial killers

WATCH CLOSELY: “The White Lotus” — Decadence and Dalliance

The second season of The White Lotus is decidedly darker than the first, and the air of decadence and luxury is overshadowed by a disturbing aura of danger, even evil.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Mike White, Peg Aloi, The White Lotus

Television Review: “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” Season Two — No Sophomore Slump

Much of the charm of The Sex Lives of College Girls comes from how messy the girls are.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Mindy Kaling, The Sex Lives of College Girls

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