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TV Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Episodes 5-6
By Matthew Moorcroft Part V – Strong RecommendationPart VI – Strong Recommendation Directed by Deborah Chow Starring Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram, Vivian Lyra Blair, Hayden Christensen TV-14 Did Obi-Wan Kenobi really need to exist? This is the question that has loomed over this series’ head the entire time and promised to be answered once the…
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TV Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1, Episodes 11-12
By Matthew Moorcroft Chapter 11: The Great Divide – Solid RecommendationChapter 12: The Storm – Highest Recommendation Directed by Giancarlo Volpe (Episode 11), Lauren MacMullan (Episode 12) Starring Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Dante Basco TV-Y7 Two things can be true at once. Yes, The Great Divide is indeed Avatar‘s worst episode, and…
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TV Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1, Episodes 9-10
By Matthew Moorcroft Chapter 9: The Waterbending Scroll – Strong RecommendationChapter 10: Jet – Strong Recommendation Directed by Anthony Lioi (Episode 9), Dave Filoni (Episode 10) Starring Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Dante Basco TV-Y7 In 2005, western animation just didn’t really do serialization if at all. There were a couple of shows…
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TV Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1, Episodes 7-8
By Matthew Moorcroft Chapter 7: The Spirit World: Winter Solstice, Part 1 – Strong RecommendationChapter 8: Avatar Roku: Winter Solstice, Part 2 – Highest Recommendation Directed by Lauren MacMullan (Episode 7), Giancarlo Volpe (Episode 8) Starring Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Dante Basco TV-Y7 Despite being billed as a two-parter, the Winter Solstice…
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TV Review: Ms. Marvel, Episode 2
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Meera Menon Starring Iman Vellani, Matt Lintz, Yasmeen Fletcher, Zenobia Shroff TV-14 When you start making as many superhero projects as the MCU does, it starts to become harder and harder to make them seem different from each other. This is a side effect of superhero stories tending…
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TV Review: First Kill, Episode 1-2
By Matthew Moorcroft Episode 1 (First Kiss) – Solid RecommendationEpisode 2 (First Blood) – Weak Recommendation Directed by Jet Wilkinson Starring Sarah Catherine Hook, Imani Lewis, Elizabeth Mitchell, Aubin Wise TV-MA The first thing to know about First Kill, the new lesbian romance from Netflix and author Victoria Schwab, is that it’s camp. So much…
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TV Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1, Episodes 5-6
By Matthew Moorcroft Chapter 5: The King of Omashu – Strong RecommendationChapter 6: Imprisoned – Strong Recommendation Directed by Anthony Lioi (Episode 5), Dave Filoni (Episode 6) Starring Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Andre Sogliuzzo TV-Y7 One of the benefits of episodic television that seems to be lost nowadays is the existence of…
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TV Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1, Episodes 3-4
By Matthew Moorcroft Chapter 3: The Southern Air Temple – Highest RecommendationChapter 4: The Warriors of Kyoshi – Strong Recommendation Directed by Lauren MacMullan (Episode 3), Giancarlo Volpe (Episode 4) Starring Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Dante Basco TV-Y7 “You can’t hide it from him forever,” Sokka warns Katara as she hides the…
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TV Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1, Episodes 1-2
By Matthew Moorcroft Chapter 1: The Boy in the Iceberg – Strong RecommendationChapter 2: The Avatar Returns – Strong Recommendation Directed by Dave Filoni Starring Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Dante Basco TV-Y7 It’s probably pointless to really dive into Avatar: The Last Airbender this late in the game. It’s onne of the…
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TV Review: Ms. Marvel, Episode 1
By Matthew Moorcroft Strong Recommendation Directed by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah Starring Iman Vellani, Matt Lintz, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur TV-14 Going into Ms. Marvel was accompanied by nail-biting and worry beyond any MCU project thus far. Even outside of the fact that this was an important project to get right, early marketing…
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