Marvel Zombies Is Certainly A Bombastic TV Series The second part of Marvel Zombies impressed me because of how weird it is, even compared to the first episode. The series really has become the bloody, gory toy box I talked about before, where Marvel characters are put in totally new frameworks. That doesn’t—somehow—make these episodes… Read More »
Considering how episodic the events of the first episode of Marvel Zombies are, it seems only fitting to review each part of this four-part mini-series on its own terms. The first episode certainly gives us a lot to talk about. But the overall story is not one of those things. Because Marvel Zombies gives you… Read More »
Wolf King is the worst show I’ve seen in a long time. It clearly wants to be like Avatar: The Last Airbender, but it starts off terrible, predictable, and shoddy, and doesn’t rise all that far from that. Like even on a premise level, the show racks up issues. It’s an alternative world where some… Read More »
“The Past Is The Past” Subverts Superhero Stories “The Past is The Past” is both an ending I’d want from a show, and way off from what I expected for this show specifically. Or any Marvel show, really. My general impression of the “origin series,” as I think of them, is to take a character… Read More »
“Deep Trouble” Has Two Great Ideas Put Together I loved “Deep Trouble” in theory. I liked it in practice. There’s a difference between conceptually enjoying the decisions made and having the delivery be only okay. Let’s take the fear domain, for instance. Somehow, a submarine going through the ocean managed to combine so many different… Read More »
“Karma’s a Glitch” Might Be The Second-Best Part “Karma’s a Glitch” has the pacing and progression of a movie, and I loved that about it. The series has been building up for so long that just having a bunch of classic superhero moments chained together was deeply satisfying. Like, yes, the series does have to… Read More »
“Pipelines” Somehow Isn’t A Bad Magnus Episode Let me be clear. I hated three big things about “Pipelines.” I hated the re: being repeated so many times in a row. Some of the emails are so short that it’s actually ridiculous to include those—damn any verisimilitude. Secondly, I hate that the actual horror moment, the… Read More »
“Temporary Positions” Is Great For Mystery Lovers Maybe this is just because I’ve listened to a lot of Magnus, and am going off patterns, but the series does have a habit of outright stating something after it was possible to mostly have figured it out. And that’s what “Temporary Positions” feels like. It’s a clarifying… Read More »
“Repetitive Strain” Doesn’t Have Enough Runtime “Repetitive Strain” is mostly only brought down from excellence by the statement not having enough time. I love that the episode keeps matters mostly focused on one plotline, while also progressing it, but I was intrigued and increasingly horrified—and then the story stopped. Like, I don’t recall many Spiral-style… Read More »
“Slipping” Is An Offputting Episode Of This Series “Slipping” takes the format of Protocol and pushes it to the absolute extreme. There’s implying a horror story through the medium of whatever technology or multimedia thing we’re exploring that episode, and then there’s burying it so deep in that framework that it feels like a twist… Read More »