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Welcome to Night City – Review of “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” Episodes 1 & 2

Source: IMDB The essence of Cyberpunk as a genre is fighting against the hopelessness of an utterly crapsack world. The first two episodes of Netflix’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners drives this home in spectacular fashion, with the focus on protagonist David Martinez, a young man living in the thoroughly corrupt and decadent Night City (the default setting … Continue reading Welcome to Night City – Review of “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” Episodes 1 & 2 →

Links Forming a Chain – Review of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Episode 3 “Adar”

Chains come in many forms, physical, emotional, or spiritual. The famous phrase “the chains of command” are meant as metaphorical, emphasizing the weight someone who must command others carries with them. In the third episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, titled “Adar”, metaphorical and physical chains are being forged, binding … Continue reading Links Forming a Chain – Review of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Episode 3 “Adar” →

A is for Atheism – An ABC’s Essay

Apostasy can be defined as the total desertion of one’s religion. But losing one’s religion is not as cut and dry as simply saying one doesn’t believe in the supernatural. For myself, it took more than a decade to accept my doubts and realize these thoughts were nothing more than my mind not accepting an … Continue reading A is for Atheism – An ABC’s Essay →

The Quest Begins – Review of “The Sandman” Episode Two “Imperfect Hosts”

When your world has crumbled around you, the decisions you make can be both necessary and heartbreaking. That is the place Dream finds himself in during the events of the second episode of Netflix’s The Sandman, titled “Imperfect Hosts”. The Dreaming has been torn asunder by the absence of its master and Dream must consult … Continue reading The Quest Begins – Review of “The Sandman” Episode Two “Imperfect Hosts” →

An Endless Nightmare – Review of “The Sandman” Episode One “Sleep of the Just”

To say that I’ve been waiting impatiently for Netflix’s The Sandman to drop would be an understatement. Back in the early 1990s, when I was still obsessively reading comic books, I came across Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, which was my first exposure to the often dark, often whimsical, but never dull storytelling abilities of Gaiman. … Continue reading An Endless Nightmare – Review of “The Sandman” Episode One “Sleep of the Just” →

A Total Waste – Review of “Resident Evil (2022)”

Source: IMDB When I heard that Netflix was producing a live-action series for the Resident Evil franchise, my hope was that it would turn out better than the last property to come out of that franchise, the animated miniseries Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness. Sadly, Resident Evil (2022) is an unmitigated disaster with a single bright … Continue reading A Total Waste – Review of “Resident Evil (2022)” →

The End of the Beginning of the End – Review of “Stranger Things 4” Episode 9 “The Piggyback”

The last chapter of Stranger Things 4 has one hell of a bitter ending. Episode Nine, titled “The Piggyback”, drops some major bombshells on us as an audience, while also tying up the season’s plot lines before setting up the events of the final season. It’s a case of closing out one story while laying … Continue reading The End of the Beginning of the End – Review of “Stranger Things 4” Episode 9 “The Piggyback” →

The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions – Review of “Stranger Things 4” Episode 8 “Papa”

The second half of Stranger Things 4 starts off with a bang with the episode, “Papa”. Everything is leading up to the final plan to kill Vecna/Henry/One and the stakes of the coming fight are laid out plainly that this is not a fight everyone expects to walk away from. In between the more action-packed … Continue reading The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions – Review of “Stranger Things 4” Episode 8 “Papa” →

“Babylon 5” Season Four “No Surrender, No Retreat” – Part Four

The finale of the Shadow War came about within the first six episodes of Babylon 5’s fourth season, something unexpected for the fanbase. The main reason for that was one of practicality on the part of J. Michael Straczynski. The Prime Time Entertainment Network, which had been the home of Babylon 5 since its inception, … Continue reading “Babylon 5” Season Four “No Surrender, No Retreat” – Part Four →

Pulling Back the Curtain – Review of “Stranger Things 4” Episode Seven “The Massacre at Hawkins Lab”

The finale for the first part of Stranger Things 4 ends with several revelations, none of them good for our heroes. Monsters are fought, freedom is earned for some, and we finally get the story behind the Big Bad of the season, Vecna. While I, like many people, would have preferred all nine episodes be … Continue reading Pulling Back the Curtain – Review of “Stranger Things 4” Episode Seven “The Massacre at Hawkins Lab” →