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Contributors Street Fighter A Wild, Nostalgic Ride That Needed More Fighting
A lifelong Street Fighter II arcade rat saw the new movie twice on opening day. One screening changed how it felt, and one casting choice never stopped bugging him.
October 16, 2026 →
Hot Takes VisionQuest The Painting in VisionQuest Episode 2 Is a Receipt for Who Built Vision's Body
Vision stops at a painting of a burning synthetic man and calls him the first of us. In the comics, that man's body is the one Ultron built Vision out of.
October 16, 2026 →
Hot Takes DC Absolute Universe The Absolute Justice League Is a Board of Directors, and Brainiac Picked the Seats
Everybody knows the Justice League is the villain in DC's Absolute Universe. Read Absolute Evil #1 like a scene and the real question is who arranged the table.
October 15, 2026 →
News KPop Demon Hunters KPop Demon Hunters Star Arden Cho Traded Cards With Fans at NYCC
The speaking voice of Rumi signed KAYOU cards at New York Comic Con, then started swapping with fans to finish her own collection.
October 15, 2026 →
News My Little Pony A My Little Pony Fan Pulled a Card and Got to Create His Own Pony
KAYOU's Chase the Magic winner designed a brand-new Pony with comic artist Andy Price, then got the finished art on stage at NYCC. Plus the new Pony cards hitting shelves this month.
October 15, 2026 →
Hot Takes VisionQuest VisionQuest Told You to Read Theseus's Own Story. In It, the King Is Crowned by His Father's Death.
Ultron's best line in VisionQuest episode 2 points past the Ship of Theseus to the myth itself. Read the myth and the advice stops sounding like encouragement.
October 15, 2026 →
The Files Clayface The Pitch Outlived Everyone Who Said No
Mike Flanagan pitched a Clayface horror movie in 2021, got told no, pitched it again, got a yes, and left. The movie opening October 23 is built on that pitch. Here is what the hires, the money and the trailers say it is, pinned a week before the reviews. The second DEVELOPING board.
October 14, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews VisionQuest Vision Is How Ultron Gets Out
James Spader's Ultron is living in Vision's attic, and he just told Vision to be the king. Two episodes in, sixty years of comics say exactly where this is going.
October 14, 2026 →
News DC Absolute Universe Absolute Justice Is Coming, and They're Building It Like a Movie
I was in Room 405 on Friday for DC's Absolute Universe panel at New York Comic Con. Absolute Justice from Jason Aaron and Juan Ferreyra, Batman finally finds the Joker, Barbara Gordon steps up, Superman heads for space and Wonder Woman gets an Absolute Cheetah. Here's everything.
October 12, 2026 →
News R.L. Stine on Tubi Tubi Is Making R.L. Stine's The Babysitter, and Showed the First Afraid of Clowns Clip at NYCC
Tubi used its R.L. Stine panel at New York Comic Con to announce a live-action adaptation of The Babysitter for 2027, debut the first clip from Afraid of Clowns with Jimbo as Ringmaster Rollo, and put Pumpkinhead 2 in front of the room. Here's the whole Stine slate.
October 12, 2026 →
News Skybound Visions Skybound Visions Puts Bumblebee, G.I. Joe and Turok in the Hands of Tate Brombal, Doug Mahnke and Stephen Graham Jones
Skybound and Image used New York Comic Con to launch Skybound Visions, a line of standalone limited series that reimagines Transformers, G.I. Joe and Turok. The first three books arrive January through March 2027, and the creative teams are stacked.
October 12, 2026 →
News Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Beerus Opened NYCC With 3,000 Fans and a Kamehameha
Dragon Ball took day one of New York Comic Con with the world premiere of Dragon Ball Super: Beerus, and the series premiered in Japan this Sunday. What was shown, who was on stage, and what an enhanced edition actually means.
October 11, 2026 →
News Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Masako Nozawa Has Voiced Goku Since 1986, and She Still Plays Every Scene at Full Power
For the Dragon Ball Super: Beerus premiere, Toei sat down Masako Nozawa and Koichi Yamadera, the voices of Goku and Beerus. Her stance has been getting wider for forty years, and his verdict on her is one for the books.
October 11, 2026 →
News Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom Zero Gundam SEED Freedom Zero Hits North American Theaters in February, and It's Chiaki Morosawa's Last Script
Bandai Namco Filmworks used the Gundam Showcase at New York Comic Con to date Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom Zero for North American theaters in February 2027 and name its English cast. It's a prequel written alongside SEED Freedom, and the director calls it his late wife's final work.
October 11, 2026 →
News Star Trek 60th Anniversary A Gorn Head, Kirk's Tunic and 60 Years of Star Trek
Ben Stiller hosted William Shatner on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con for Star Trek's 60th anniversary. The Enemy Within, Arena, The City on the Edge of Forever, The Wrath of Khan, and a Gorn head from Stiller's own collection.
October 10, 2026 →
News Star Trek: Starfleet Academy March 2027, Bill Nighy, and a Sophomore Year
I was in the Empire Stage for the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con. Starfleet Academy season two has a date, two new guest stars, a new cadet and a theme. Here's everything they said.
October 10, 2026 →
News BlumFest I'm Not a Horror Fan, and Mike Flanagan Got Me Anyway
I spent Friday afternoon at BlumFest at New York Comic Con with MatPat hosting, Chiwetel Ejiofor on stage and the first trailer for The Exorcist: Martyrs. Here's what got a guy who avoids horror to walk out with a watch list.
October 9, 2026 →
The Files Lanterns The Season 1 Autopsy, and the One Card the Show Hid
I called Lanterns a face-up mystery all season. I read 24,072 comments from 9,516 of you to grade that claim: three of the four big cards were on the table, one was in the dealer's sleeve, and this room read the rest first.
October 9, 2026 →
News Marvel Television and Animation I Watched VisionQuest's Whole Premiere, and Now the Double Drops Make Sense
Marvel Television and Animation screened the entire first episode of VisionQuest at New York Comic Con, with Paul Bettany and James Spader in the room. Plus the Defenders back for Daredevil: Born Again's final season, X-Men '97, Spider-Man, three more Marvel Zombies and a new spy series called Zodiac.
October 8, 2026 →
8.5/10 Reviews Lanterns John Stewart Has Been Refusing the Suit Since 1971
The Lanterns finale never puts John in the suit, rewrites the oath, and puts yellow in his lantern. The comics did all three first. The real problem is where the climax went.
October 5, 2026 →
The Files Lanterns I Hired a Writers Room Once, and Lanterns Just Showed Me Its Plan
HBO staffed six people to write a second season of Lanterns it has not ordered yet. Tom King is not one of them. I hired a writers room once, so I read every chair: what left the room, what came in, and five predictions on the record.
October 2, 2026 →
The Files X-Men Marvel Already Told You the Plot
At D23, Adam Driver joked about playing Magneto, then said his character's real name: Nathaniel Milbury. Nobody looked it up. Read the X-Men cast in the order Marvel hired it, and every name points at the same story. The first DEVELOPING board.
September 30, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Lanterns Why Hal Never Let Go
Everybody is crying at the note. The note is the delivery mechanism. Episode 7 buries its real sentence in a baseball, and it took a dead copy of Hal Jordan to say it out loud.
September 28, 2026 →
The Files Lanterns My Audience Is Not Asking If Hal Jordan Is Dead
The rest of the internet spent the week asking whether Hal Jordan is really dead. This comment section spent it working the murder, and it came out with better evidence: a suit that fit without a tape measure, a shot nobody fought, and a punch a man asked for.
September 25, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Original Series Finally Got Its Finale
Two Uhuras, a time ripple, and a bridge that has already been struck. The season 4 finale is not the show finally becoming serious. It is All Good Things, built for the one ship that never got an ending.
September 24, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews Lanterns Everyone Misread Hal Jordan's Last Words
The eulogy everybody is carrying out of Bad Optics reads as bravado inside one hour. Held against the five episodes before it, it reads as a hero's letter.
September 21, 2026 →
The Files Lanterns My Audience Called It Two Weeks Before a Subtitle Did
A speaker label on the Latin American Spanish track of Lanterns Episode 5 reads Clon de Hal. The Know-It-All Nation got to the clone theory sixteen days earlier, using nothing but what was already in the frame.
September 18, 2026 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Gimmick Episode Is the Real Star Trek
Everybody spent the season calling these episodes gimmicks. Go count the original series. The fantastical hour is not the detour, it is the spine, and this one gets spent on the only person on that bridge whose ending nobody has written.
September 18, 2026 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Two Weeks of Handing Somebody Else the Check
I almost turned off episode 7, and then a man opened a cookbook in a bar. Two hours, two weeks, one move: the show keeps running up a bill and sliding it to somebody else.
September 15, 2026 →
8.5/10 Reviews Lanterns The Best Hour This Show Has Made, Embarrassed by Its Own Best Ideas
Episode 5 got a standing ovation for a refusal, and used the applause to cover the two biggest things it did all night. One of them rewrites how Hal Jordan got his ring. The other one is a kid nobody is talking about.
September 14, 2026 →
The Files Lanterns Why You Never Bought Zoe As the Whole Answer
Sunday night the show handed everybody the Manhunter with four episodes still to run. By Monday afternoon this comment section had already stopped celebrating and started building a case against a Guardian.
September 11, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews Lanterns The Refusal John Stewart Never Said Out Loud
Episode 4 spends four hours of television building a man who cannot say no, and then lets him refuse in total silence with nobody watching. The best hour this show has made.
September 7, 2026 →
Reviews By Any Means The Ending They Typed Instead of Shot
The last ten minutes of Paramount's Mississippi thriller hand you a bibliography instead of a final scene. A sourced breakdown of what the files actually say, and the ending that was sitting right there.
September 5, 2026 →
The Files Lanterns Fans Are Having the Wrong Argument About John Stewart's Parents
It was abuse and it was not malice, and both of those sentences are true at once. Behind the one word everybody spent a week yelling about is a show quietly building a Manhunter out of a human being.
September 5, 2026 →
6.5/10 Reviews By Any Means Good, and That's the Frustrating Part
A spoiler-free press-screening review of Paramount's 1966 Mississippi FBI thriller, from a filmmaker's read on where the money went and where it didn't.
September 3, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Lanterns Why John Stewart Never Had a Choice
Episode 3 is not the secret origin of where John Stewart came from. It is the secret origin of who is responsible for him, and it buys that answer with the man's first free decision.
August 31, 2026 →
The Files Lanterns I Put Four Suspects on a Ballot and You Picked the Decoy
7,031 people voted on the anomaly in Rushville and 42 percent walked straight into the trap. The vote is a gut. The comment is a case.
August 28, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Night Scotty Became Scotty
A bottle episode that reaches back forty-two years to build Montgomery Scott, and then puts him in the B slot. A craft read on Strange New Worlds season 4.
August 27, 2026 →
9/10 Reviews Lanterns The Clues Point at John Stewart
Trust Fall pays out the suit, the oath, and Sinestro, then quietly deals a fair-play mystery whose clues point somewhere nobody is looking. A sourced breakdown, with a call on the record.
August 24, 2026 →
The Files Lanterns Are These Versions of Hal Jordan and John Stewart Actually Green Lanterns?
The artist who helped rebuild Hal Jordan said Lanterns is not the Green Lantern, then said it's going to be great, same man, same day. The Know-It-All Nation asked which statement is true. The Files opens the case.
August 21, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Puppet Episode Is the Most Important Hour of This Era
Six months of build, a hired puppeteer crew, and a standing set that still had to shoot every other week. Everyone is arguing about whether SNW should have done the puppet episode. The better question is why anybody would bother.
August 20, 2026 →
Reviews X-Men: The Animated Series The Animated Series Review: The '92 Show Already Told You Why Genosha Burns
I had not watched this since I was 13, and I had it wrong in two directions at once. Registration, Genosha, and the cure are the same lie in three different outfits, and the show built that argument in five scattered episodes before anyone thought it would get a second season.
August 19, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Lanterns Why This Show Doesn't Work Any Other Way
The HBO Max premiere had to make Green Lantern believable before it made him spectacular, and Episode 1 understands that completely. A sourced production breakdown.
August 17, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Real Problem Isn't That It Was Rushed
All nine episodes, receipts on the table. Season 2 of X-Men '97 wasn't rushed, it was paid for twice, and we got the half they'd already bought.
August 15, 2026 →
6/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Why "Survival of the Fittest" Won't Get Away With This
In July I let X-Men '97 get away with a big swing. The season 2 finale isn't swinging, it's hoping you won't look. A sourced breakdown of where it was built wrong.
August 12, 2026 →
The Files Spider-Man: Brand New Day Is Jean Grey Evil? The Case Against Her Is Wrong
She makes a man walk into traffic, and that one scene became the whole argument. A sourced trip through the actual record, from Dark Phoenix to Ultimate X-Men, on why this Jean is not the dark version. She's the tame one.
August 8, 2026 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Hangover in Space Has an Empty Chair Problem
The jokes land, Foley's great, Pike's tattoo is a gift, so why does SNW's comedy episode still feel like it's wrestling the show it lives in? A craft read on season 4, episode 3.
August 6, 2026 →
9.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Every Hero Got Dealt a Losing Winner
Rogue finally touches Gambit and it's the most horrifying moment of the episode. Season 2, episode 8 is six people being handed exactly what they wanted, in a shape they can't use.
August 5, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews Spider-Man: Brand New Day Brand New Day Review: The Length Complaint Is Real, and It Was Never About Length
Everybody walked out saying the same six words about the runtime, and everybody diagnosed them wrong. A full-spoiler craft read on why the most exhausting Spider-Man movie is also the best one.
August 1, 2026 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Scary vs. Empty Is the Wrong Fight
Star Trek handed an episode to a real horror director and got out of her way. A craft read on season 4, episode 2, from a reviewer who does not do horror and got got anyway.
July 30, 2026 →
9/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Best Scene This Show Has Ever Written, Almost Buried
The trial of Graydon Creed is the strongest twelve minutes X-Men '97 has ever produced. The episode around it keeps getting in its way. A spoiler breakdown of Strange Land, Savage Heart.
July 29, 2026 →
8.5/10 Reviews The Odyssey Everyone Found a Casting Problem, They Found the Wrong One
The discourse picked Helen of Troy as its hill. The real casting problem is in almost every frame of Christopher Nolan's film, and it leads straight to what this movie actually is.
July 28, 2026 →
Reviews X-Men '97 Four Horsemen Said Yes in 39 Years, Remy Never Got the Question
The Gambit reveal wasn't a twist, it was a payoff 39 years in the making. The file runs from X-Factor 24 through Blood of Apocalypse, and the Know-It-All Nation called it before I did.
July 25, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Retcon Is Not the Point, the Translator Is
The biggest canon swing in 60 years of Star Trek might be the least interesting thing in this episode. A craft read on the season 4 premiere, the widower scene, and why the tonal chaos critique doesn't hold.
July 23, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Mansion Turned Reasonable, and That's Scarier
The Danger Room didn't catch a virus. It learned from watching Charles Xavier grieve, and by the end of the episode, nobody had actually beaten its argument.
July 22, 2026 →
Reacts Avengers: Doomsday Doomsday Trailer Breakdown: I Called Marvel Second Rate, Then This Dropped
For the first time in seven years, Marvel felt like home. What's confirmed, what's theory, and one big swing about whose funeral the trailer is hiding in plain sight.
July 20, 2026 →
The Files X-Men '97 Onslaught, the Villain Marvel Tried to Bury
The comments called it: Onslaught is coming. The full story behind him runs through a thrown-away 1977 fill-in issue, a Saturday morning cartoon, and a Marvel bankruptcy.
July 18, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Why I Let This Show Get Away With It
Episode 5 assembles a strike team in 90 seconds, kills a legacy character in half a sentence, and runs almost entirely on trust. The review is whether that credit was spent well.
July 15, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Origin Story the Original Show Was Never Allowed to Tell
Episode 4 finally closes a 30-year gap in the franchise, and it makes a trade nobody's talking about yet: Apocalypse doesn't seize his power. He gets handed a job.
July 11, 2026 →
9/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Question Isn't Whether It's Good, It's Whether Marvel Knows Why
Episodes 1 through 3 are confident, emotional, and dense without being muddy. The real test is whether the creative intelligence of season 1 survives the handoff.
July 7, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Supergirl The Weak Villain Is the Point
Everybody keeps saying Supergirl has a weak villain. Good. Krem should be weak. The real fight is Kara versus what happens when grief finally finds a body.
July 3, 2026 →
The Files Real Talk The Franchise Confidence Test
Space.com put nine sci-fi shows on the board for 2026. Run them against the Know-It-All Index and it stops being a watch list and becomes a franchise confidence exam.
June 25, 2026 →
Reacts Star Trek: Strange New Worlds When a Season Starts Looking Like an Audition Tape
Pike, Spock, Kirk, a release date, ten episodes: this should be modern Trek's easy win. So why does the season 4 marketing feel like it's selling a future nobody has actually ordered?
June 24, 2026 →
The Files Stargate Amazon Bought the Gate and May Not Know What It Opens Into
Amazon announced a new Stargate series, fans got excited, and then it died before a single episode existed. The reported reason is what turned disappointment into fury.
June 13, 2026 →
The Files Star Wars Why the Franchise Doesn't Clear the Room Anymore
Star Wars still has recognition, but recognition is not relevance, and relevance is not authority. What The Backrooms and Obsession just proved about the box office, and why Hollywood's safety math may be broken.
June 2, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews The Boys Why the Ending Works for One Very Strange Reason
The Boys didn't just get messier over time. It started collapsing in the same shape as its world, and that's exactly why the finale lands. A look at restraint failing, Homelander's evolution, and the emotional debt the show finally paid.
May 28, 2026 →
8.5/10 Reviews Michael A Controlled Resurrection I Don't Fully Trust
Antoine Fuqua's biopic is safe, selective, and protected. It also gave me goosebumps anyway. Wrestling with why the protection and the power are the same thing.
May 3, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Episodes 6 and 7 Review: The Show Finally Remembered Who Matt Murdock Is
Requiem refuses to let Wilson Fisk grieve, and The Hateful Darkness brings Matt Murdock back into a courtroom. Together they give this season the center it badly needed.
April 30, 2026 →
6.5/10 Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Season 2 Episode 5 Review: The Episode That Stabilizes When It Should Break Him
Grand Design sits in the slot where everything is supposed to start collapsing, and instead it spends an hour explaining something we already knew. A structural read on why a good episode functions like filler.
April 20, 2026 →
7/10 Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Season 2 Episode 4 Review: This Should Have Been Peak Daredevil
Gloves Off has everything lined up: Bullseye active, Matt behind, Fisk in public. So why does an episode this good keep restarting itself?
April 11, 2026 →
7/10 Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Season 2 Episodes 2 and 3 Review: The Show Just Shifted Into Something Darker
Shoot the Moon and The Scales and The Sword play like one crowded, compressed story. So why does it still work? Because this isn't really a Daredevil show anymore. It's Matt and Fisk.
April 1, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Season 2 Premiere Review: The Northern Star Finally Lets Daredevil Be Daredevil
The black suit and the DD symbol are back, but that's not why this premiere works. It works because Marvel finally rebuilt the pressure system around Matt Murdock.
March 26, 2026 →
Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Season 1 Review: The Right Show Was In There the Whole Time
Season 1 didn't come up short because Marvel didn't know what Daredevil was. It came up short because it knew, and kept handing attention back to the wrong material.
March 24, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Why Moving One Episode Would Have Transformed the Whole Season
The better version of Starfleet Academy was already in there. Move the episode 9 rupture to episode 3 and five other systems start working almost automatically.
March 23, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews Project Hail Mary The Adaptation That Should Have Failed and Sings Instead
Andy Weir's material could have frozen up on screen. Instead the movie translates the thinking into tension, personality, and scene life, and earns a perfect score.
March 21, 2026 →
The Files Project Hail Mary The Andy Weir Adaptation Problem Nobody's Talking About
Andy Weir might be one of the hardest modern authors to adapt, and it has nothing to do with the science being complicated. It's about where his tension lives.
March 17, 2026 →
4/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Rubicon Exposes a Season Built on Borrowed Weight
The season one finale is all payoff with nothing underneath it, and once you ask what the payoff is paying off, the whole season's structure gives way.
March 16, 2026 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Emotional Checks This Season Never Wrote
The penultimate episode finally works in one storyline, and the moment it does, you can see exactly why so much of the rest of the season hasn't. A structural read on "300th Night."
March 7, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Scream It's Being Judged for What People Wanted, Not What It Is
The critics called it a gimmick. I walked out holding my breath. A filmmaker's breakdown of how Scream 7 changed the franchise's fear language, and what that swing costs.
February 28, 2026 →
6/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Season's Most Frustrating Almost
The best episode of the season so far hangs its entire emotional weight on the Doctor, and it still can't decide whether it earned that weight or borrowed it from Voyager.
February 27, 2026 →
The Files Scream Why Solvability Is the Ceiling Ghostface Can't Cut Through
After a back-to-back marathon of all six Scream films, one structural truth won't go away: the whodunit chassis converts fear into logic, and logic is safety.
February 26, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms The Show That Refused Irony and Landed a 10
Episodes 4 through 6 were the stress test, and the show never flinched. A filmmaker's breakdown of how the trial of seven, Baelor's death, and a quiet finale kept the promise.
February 25, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Starfleet Academy Debate: Kirk Cheated a Test, Genesis Broke Starfleet, and Why That Matters
Genesis is not young Kirk all over again. One of them changed the rules of a simulation. The other falsified her way into the Academy and powered up a warp core to cover it. Those are not the same category of action.
February 24, 2026 →
5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Command Rot and the Leadership Test the Show Refused to Take
A cadet commits fraud inside Starfleet's command pipeline, a prince walks away from a throne, and somehow none of it is allowed to land. A breakdown of the hour where the show blinked.
February 21, 2026 →
9.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Furies Bring Real Stakes and the Show Finally Becomes Star Trek
A competent enemy, clear geography, earned sacrifice, and real cost. After five weeks of critique, this is the episode that made me stop reviewing and start watching.
February 13, 2026 →
Reviews A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Why This Show Shouldn't Work (But Does)
Four episodes in, HBO's Dunk and Egg series is doing almost everything wrong by modern franchise logic. A production breakdown of why the discipline holds.
February 11, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews Fallout The Show Took Away the Guardrails
I didn't finish Fallout Season 2 impressed. I finished it exposed. A breakdown of a season that wins by accumulation instead of escalation, and why that nerve earns a perfect score.
February 9, 2026 →
5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy When Average Is Worse Than Bad
An episode built on Sisko's legacy left me feeling oddly empty, and the reason exposes how this show behaves when it gets uncomfortable.
February 6, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Legacy Klingons Can't Carry the Weight This Show Refuses to Hold
Vox in Excelso is the strongest episode of the season, and that's exactly the problem. A production audit of how Starfleet Academy references Klingon weight without ever carrying it.
January 31, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Send Help The Most Honest (and Meanest) Film Sam Raimi Has Ever Made
Raimi has always been cruel. What's new in Send Help is that he takes away every escape hatch he usually gives us. A diagnosis of a film that refuses to be merciful.
January 29, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews Wonder Man Why Marvel's Refusal to Save Its Hero Changed Everything
The Marvel Spotlight season won me back with restraint, not lore. A breakdown of editorial mercy, the Dorman clause, and the best acting Marvel television has trusted in years.
January 29, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Why Season 4 Must Choose Between Science Fiction and Performing Star Trek
A pre-flight check on three seasons of Strange New Worlds, one standard for judging every episode, and the question of whether the show can still carry the torch.
January 26, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Is This Show Fixing or Failing Trek?
Salty Trekker, Danny Dorknight and Lore joined me to fight about episode 3. We agreed the plant was the most Star Trek thing the show has done, and then spent the rest of the night arguing about whether anything in it was earned.
January 24, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy The Right Lesson, Solved Way Too Fast
Episode 3 finally reaches for a real Star Trek solution and lets the cadets solve their own problem. Then it sprints past the discomfort that would have made the solution mean something.
January 22, 2026 →
7/10 Reviews 28 Years Later Why Nia DaCosta Pulls Her Punches
The Bone Temple wants to live in the neighborhood where the infected stop being the main problem. It just doesn't commit to the most dangerous version of the idea.
January 17, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Starfleet Academy When Overproduction Smothers the Story
I waited a day before recording, because I finished the premiere knowing something wasn't lining up and I didn't trust myself yet to say what it was. It turned out I wasn't reacting to the story. I was reacting to the way the show puts itself together.
January 16, 2026 →
The Files Fallout Why Todd Howard Refuses to Protect Canon
Somewhere in the middle of Season Two, a place I recognized was just gone. It took me a while to understand that the problem wasn't what the show did. It was the way I expected it to behave.
January 16, 2026 →
7/10 Reviews Stranger Things A Good Close to a Book With Rocky Chapters
The finale sticks the landing hard enough that I'm satisfied, and I still can't shake what a mess the season around it was. Dueling disappointment and satisfaction, explained.
January 3, 2026 →
9/10 Reviews Fallout Robert House, the Mind Control Chip, and a Show That Earned My Goodwill
Three episodes in, Fallout Season 2 is threading the needle the same way Season 1 did, with a mind control chip tying the past to the present and Hank's darkest secret finally out in the open.
January 2, 2026 →
Reviews Stranger Things Why the Finale Has a Mountain to Climb
The Abyss reveal, the lore retcons, and the most divisive episode in the show's history. A breakdown of the first seven episodes, and why I'm withholding a score until the finale.
December 31, 2025 →
Reviews Stranger Things The Will Scene Stopped at the Surface
Every Doomsday trailer has leaked so far, the Will scene in Stranger Things 5 lost the reality of the era it's set in, and Avatar is still style over substance. Notes from the first Mr. Know-It-All live stream.
December 29, 2025 →
News Real Talk Big Channel Changes and the New 2026 Schedule
Mr. Know-It-All Live on Mondays and Wednesdays at noon, Friday Night Nerd Fights every week, a Substack for the critical work, and the honest reason the channel went quiet after the Tron: Ares review.
December 27, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews IT: Welcome to Derry Welcome to Derry Episode 2 Review: A Shining Connection and the New Standard for Horror
The Thing in the Dark proves the pilot wasn't a fluke. The town of Derry is as frightening as the clown underneath it, and Dick Hallorann from the Overlook Hotel just walked into the story.
November 12, 2025 →
10/10 Reviews IT: Welcome to Derry Prestige Horror Is Here
I'm not a horror guy, and the Welcome to Derry series premiere still had me watching through my fingers. A perfect score for a pilot that looks like a feature film and expands Pennywise without explaining him away.
October 28, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Tron: Ares Ares Review: The Critics Are Seeing the Code, the Fans Are Seeing the World
There are two conversations happening about Tron: Ares right now, and only one of them is about the movie. An honest fan review of the visuals, the Nine Inch Nails score, and the performance everybody is getting wrong.
October 14, 2025 →
7/10 Reviews Tron Does the Original Hold Up Before Tron: Ares?
Before Tron: Ares redefines the grid, a trip back to where it all began. The 1982 original was the first of its kind, a box office disappointment, and a James Cameron movie before we had James Cameron.
October 9, 2025 →
10/10 Reviews Peacemaker A Perfect, Soul-Shattering Tragedy
Like a Keith in the Night sends the 11th Street Kids to Earth-X expecting the ultimate evil, and the evil turns out to be what they brought with them. John Cena has never been better.
October 4, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Peacemaker The Penny Finally Drops on That Perfect World
The flag comes out of the drawer and the whole season reframes itself. A spoiler-heavy breakdown of the Earth-X reveal, Harcourt's best scene yet, and Vigilante meeting Vigilante.
September 27, 2025 →
6.5/10 Reviews Marvel Zombies Four Parts That Feel Like the Last Phase
I watched all four parts of Marvel Zombies on Disney+ and found it lackluster. The technical side is fine. My problem is the characters it asks me to care about first, and a story that goes way off the book that was sitting right there.
September 25, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Alien: Earth Earth Season 1 Finale Review: The Comic Book Ending
The Season 1 finale breaks a lot of rules for a finale. No clear climax last week, no bigger bang this week, and I'm still more excited for a next season than I've been in a long time.
September 24, 2025 →
The Files The Penguin Can Good Exist in a World Without Batman?
A sit-down with Novvice Renaissance about the one thing HBO's The Penguin removes from Gotham, and what fills the hole where morality used to be.
September 22, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Peacemaker Super Saiyan Eagly Is Officially DCU Canon
A cyborg reveal nobody seeded, a Harcourt confrontation built on hollow insults, and an eagle army that takes this show full comic book. Spoilers for episode 6.
September 20, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Alien: Earth Earth Episode 7 Review: Backup Protocols, Dirty Synths, and the Rise of an Evil Genius
The kids are out of control, Kirsh keeps getting dirtier, and Boy Kavalier finally tips from genius into evil genius. A spoiler-heavy read on the penultimate episode.
September 18, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Peacemaker Auggie Didn't Build the Door
Everybody called this a setup episode, and it is, but it also quietly rewrites who Peacemaker's father actually was. A breakdown of the raid, Red St. Wild, and the betrayal I think is coming.
September 18, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Peacemaker The Clues Are Piling Up in the Best Dimension Ever
Chris gets the world he always wanted, Harcourt's history with Rick Flag Jr. reframes season one, and the evidence that something is very wrong over there keeps stacking up. Spoilers for episode 3.
September 16, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds A Really Good Ending to a Really Rough Season
"New Life and New Civilizations" brings the Vezda back, closes a pile of dangling threads, and writes a main character out with a lifetime in minutes. The gamble mostly pays off, even if the season around it didn't.
September 13, 2025 →
6.5/10 Reviews House on Eden KallMeKris Made a Found Footage Movie That Justifies Every Camera
I don't normally review horror movies, but this one was made by one of us. KallMeKris wrote and directed a found footage movie that blazes no new territory and knows exactly what genre it's in.
September 4, 2025 →
6/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Passable, But Definitely Derivative
Season 3 keeps going back to the well of the original series, and Terrarium is the clearest example yet. A functional episode built on a tired trope, executed better elsewhere.
September 4, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Alien: Earth Earth In Space No One Review: Morrow's Backstory Is the Show We Thought We Were Getting
Episode 5 rewinds to the Maginot and hands us Morrow's full story. It's the series we all assumed we signed up for, and then it blows that version out of the water.
September 3, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Alien: Earth Earth Episode 4 Review: The Xenomorph Comes Back as a Newborn
After an episode and a half with no xenomorph in sight, Episode 4 brings the acid-blooded nightmare back as a baby, and Wendy pets it like a puppy. Character work, not filler.
September 1, 2025 →
5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Most Absurd Episode This Show Has Aired
Four crew members go full Vulcan overnight and the crisis is solved in ten minutes flat. A review with two scores, because the critic and the fan did not walk out of this one agreeing.
August 30, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Peacemaker How It Actually Fits in James Gunn's DCU
The internet clutched its pearls over one scene. I barely noticed it, because I was watching a man discover that none of his coping mechanisms work anymore. A spoiler review of the season 2 opener and episode 2.
August 29, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Alien: Earth Earth Episode 3 Review: Great Episode, One Cheap Cut
This week raised a lot more questions than it answered, but the answers we do get are juicy. Then the show cut away from the best fight in the episode, and that is where it lost me.
August 22, 2025 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Answer Is Fine, The Question Is the Problem
SNW builds an entire episode out of an in-universe documentary, and it mostly works. Then one very modern word falls out of a 23rd century mouth and knocks the whole thing sideways.
August 21, 2025 →
Reviews Alien: Earth Earth Series Premiere Review: The Prequel a Guy Who Hates Prequels Really Digs
The first two episodes of Alien: Earth waste no time aliening, expand the lore with corporations that run like nations, and play like classic sci-fi that doesn't treat us like we're dumb.
August 15, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Kirk Sits in the Chair and Starts to Belong There
The Enterprise gets swallowed whole, Kirk gets the captain's seat on the Farragut, and the show does for him what it's already done for Scotty, Spock and Uhura. A first-blush review of the hour where he starts to earn the chair.
August 14, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Most Classic Star Trek Hour in a Long Time
A dead civilization, an ancient temple, and one bright-eyed ensign who looks into a glowing orb. This is the first Strange New Worlds in a long time that felt like a TOS episode, and it earns an 8 out of 10.
August 9, 2025 →
News Spider-Man: Brand New Day Brand New Day Rumor Breakdown: Spider-Man, the Punisher and a Savage Hulk in Midtown
The leaks point to a three-way throwdown between Spidey, Frank Castle and a savage Hulk, with Mr. Negative pulling the strings. Here's the rumor, the comic history under it, and what it could mean. Glacier-sized grain of salt required.
August 2, 2025 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 4 Review: The Holodeck Is an Anachronism and the Writing Got Lazy
A fun murder mystery with the greatest Shatner impression ever, built on a holodeck that looks exactly like the one from The Next Generation and breaks down the exact same way. That's the problem.
July 31, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews The Fantastic Four: First Steps First Steps Spoiler Review: Galactus, the Silver Surfer and That End Credit Scene
Mrs. Know-It-All and I walked out of The Fantastic Four: First Steps and sat straight down to talk about it. A terrifying Galactus, a standalone Marvel movie, a Silver Surfer with regret, and Doctor Doom in the credits.
July 28, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Pike Saved Her Life and Didn't Trust Her Choice
Pike and M'Benga fly into forbidden Klingon space for a flower, and what they find is moss zombies, a Klingon with a grudge, and a knife duel on a roof. Top tier Trek horror that ends on a betrayal dressed as love.
July 26, 2025 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds Season 3 Premiere Review: A Perfect Part Two and the Most Original Series Hour Yet
Hegemony, Part II drops you right back into the Gorn fight and resolves it the way a Star Trek two-parter is supposed to. Then Wedding Bell Blues turns 180 degrees into a Trelane wedding comedy cut straight from the original series template.
July 19, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Superman A Farm Boy From Kansas in a Costume
Mrs. Know-It-All isn't a Superman fan, and she walked out calling David Corenswet her Superman. The full spoiler breakdown: the origin change that bugged me, the Lex that works, and why my 9 came down to an 8.5.
July 11, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Superman A Living Comic Book That Loves Being a Comic Book
I just got out of the early screening and I'm tickled beyond words. No spoilers: the fights look like panels, Clark is the real guy, and it's a spectacular opening for the DCU proper.
July 9, 2025 →
Reviews Marvel Cinematic Universe Eternals Cracked It and Secret Invasion Proved It
The Multiverse Saga went off the rails the moment a dead Celestial was left sticking out of the ocean and nobody mentioned it. Secret Invasion proved the care was gone, and now it all rides on the Fantastic Four.
July 8, 2025 →
5/10 Reviews Ironheart What Went Wrong With the MCU's Newest Show
The front half of Ironheart had me. Then Episode 6 handed Riri a deal with the devil, dismissed the crew, wasted Mephisto, and left her exactly where she started.
July 6, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Ironheart This Might Be the Best Marvel Show in a Very Long Time
Three episodes in, Ironheart is a grounded Chicago heist story about grief, ambition and an AI wearing a dead friend's face. Everything I thought this show was going to be, it isn't.
June 25, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Rick and Morty Why Episode 2 Feels Like the Real Season 8 Premiere
Valkyrick puts Rick and Space Beth on a mission together and picks his growth back up where last season left it. It's the episode that should've opened season 8.
June 9, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Ballerina John Wick Shows Up and Doesn't Put Her Over
Ballerina lets John Wick clobber its own lead, and that's why Eve works. Mrs. Know-It-All calls the story basic, I say it was enough, and we both land on the same number.
June 8, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Ballerina Simple Story, Amazing Choreography, and Who Cares
Ballerina is girl wants revenge, girl goes on a killing spree, and that's the whole plot. The choreography is amazing, Ana de Armas takes her lumps, and it needs to be seen on the big screen.
June 6, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who That Regeneration, Billie Piper, and a Season That Stuck the Landing
The finale redeemed the episode before it, brought back Thirteen, and handed the Doctor Rose Tyler's face. Mrs. Know-It-All and I talk through all of it, spoilers included.
June 2, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Narrative Car Crash I Had a Blast Watching
The Reality War is a mess, with a wasted Rani, a wasted Omega and a regeneration that makes no sense. I enjoyed every minute of it anyway, and one line in the credits has me asking what Billie Piper is actually playing.
June 1, 2025 →
6.5/10 Reviews Rick and Morty The Season 8 Premiere Is a Season 6 Re-Tread
The season 8 premiere traps Morty and Summer in Rick's matrix for 17 years, a concept the show already ran in season 6. One late reveal about Summer is the only thing that earns it a 6.5.
May 26, 2025 →
7/10 Reviews Doctor Who Classic Villains Return and the Setup Is a Mess
I've loved this entire season, and Wish World is a bit of a mess. A ham-fisted message, a wish baby MacGuffin, a lackluster Omega reveal, and a Rani who plays like Missy 2.0.
May 25, 2025 →
10/10 Reviews Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Impossible - The Final Reckoning Review: Nearly Three Hours and I Never Felt It
A no-spoilers review of The Final Reckoning. The stakes are personal, the stunts serve the story, and Ethan Hunt's last mission is a 10 out of 10 that I had more fun with than Dead Reckoning.
May 24, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Impossible - The Final Reckoning Spoiler Review: Why My 10 Became a 9
Mrs. Know-It-All and I spoil all of The Final Reckoning the day after our fan screening. The Rabbit's Foot payoff, Luther's exit, the villain I'd have written differently, and why my 10 came down a point.
May 24, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who Was That the Rani?
The Interstellar Song Contest finally gives us Ncuti Gatwa's angry Doctor, and then spends its last minute on a Rani reveal I couldn't make myself care about. Two scores, one average.
May 19, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Andor Episodes 10 Through 12 and the Rebellion That Wants to Forget Luthen Rael
The last three episodes of Andor walk straight into Rogue One exactly as promised, and the price of getting there is the part the Rebellion on Yavin would rather not talk about.
May 15, 2025 →
News Ironheart The Ironheart Trailer Lands, Jessica Jones Returns, and Andor Signs Off
The first full Ironheart trailer is here, Krysten Ritter is back as Jessica Jones in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Peacemaker has two John Cenas to explain, and Andor's finale has landed.
May 14, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Barbershop, a Betrayal, and a Love Letter to Storytelling
The Story and the Engine takes the Doctor to a barbershop in Lagos where stories have literal power. The revenge plot is ham-fisted, the ending is forgiveness, and it's one of the most original episodes in years.
May 11, 2025 →
Reviews Andor The Ghorman Massacre and the Speech That Names Palpatine
Week three of Andor Season 2 goes from simmering tension to full-blown tragedy. Ghorman burns, Cassian meets K-2SO, and Mon Mothma stands up in the Senate and calls out the Emperor by name.
May 8, 2025 →
Reviews Andor Salty Says the Show Never Proves the Empire Is Bad
Halfway through Andor Season 2, Salty came on Nerd Fights to argue the Empire hasn't done anything wrong on screen. I plugged in a microphone, and by the end I had to hand him one piece of it.
May 7, 2025 →
6.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Pretty Mess That's Really a Soft UNIT Episode
Lucky Day sidelines the Doctor and Belinda for a Ruby Sunday rom-com that turns into a thriller, and Kate Stewart makes a call that's going to follow her. It's bold, it's expensive, and it's messy.
May 4, 2025 →
10/10 Reviews Thunderbolts* This Is Andor for the MCU
Thunderbolts is the MCU being earnest without it feeling like a put-on. Mrs. Know-It-All and I walked out of the theater and talked through all of it: Yelena, Bob, the Void, and that asterisk.
May 3, 2025 →
10/10 Reviews Thunderbolts* Not Your Standard MCU Fare, and a 10 Out of 10
Thunderbolts is the A24 movie that one trailer sold us, and Marvel actually delivered it. A non-spoiler review of a character study wearing superhero outfits.
May 2, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who Midnight Comes Back, and So Does the Show
The Well picks up the second Lux ends, drops the Doctor and Belinda on a dead mining colony half a million years out, and then tells you what the planet used to be called. One of the best reveals Doctor Who has pulled in a long time.
May 1, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Andor The Empire Wants Ghorman to Rebel
Episodes 4 through 6 of Andor Season 2 slow the pace and deepen the intrigue. The Empire is letting the Ghorman resistance build so it can crush it in public, and Luthen is fine with letting it burn.
April 30, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who Animation Meets Live Action and the Fourth Wall Barely Holds
Lux traps the Doctor and Belinda inside a 1952 Miami movie house with a cartoon god of light. The ending's cheap and the fan scene runs long, and it's still the Doctor Who I've been missing.
April 30, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews The Wheel of Time It Rearranged the Books and Still Told the Story
Season 3 swapped the fall of Tear for Rhuidean, cut off Siuan Sanche's head, and left Moiraine on a cliffhanger. Mrs. Know-It-All is back to talk through all of it.
April 30, 2025 →
7.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who The Robot Revolution Has a Pulse
The Robot Revolution isn't rewriting time and space, but it did something Season 1 rarely managed: it made me want to watch next week. A skeptical new companion, a Doctor finally written for Ncuti Gatwa, and a muddy allegory that doesn't sink it.
April 27, 2025 →
7/10 Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Season 1 Finale Review: A Strong Finish That's Still Too Safe
The final two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again finally put Matt Murdock at the center and give us flashes of the show we were promised. Flashes are all they are.
April 21, 2025 →
Reviews A Minecraft Movie So Unserious You Have to Take It Seriously
Baby Know and Boyfriend Know saw it in two different theaters and came home with the same answer. As a film, about a five. As a good time, close to a nine.
April 10, 2025 →
Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Episodes 5 and 6 After Show: The Long Way Around to the Suit
With Interest is a bottle episode that works, and Excessive Force finally gives us daredeviling in Daredevil. Gonzo and I get into Muse, Fisk's task force, and why it took six episodes to get here.
March 26, 2025 →
Reviews The Wheel of Time The Best Exposition Dump You'll Ever Watch
Rand walks into Rhuidean, the show walks backwards through three thousand years of its own history, and it never once stops to narrate. A book reader conversation with my buddy Gonzo, no scores.
March 21, 2025 →
Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Episode 4 After Show: Fisk's Red Knuckles, Frank Castle, and a Setup Episode That Earns Its Keep
The very first Daredevil after show with Gonzo. The counseling scene made him furious, the Punisher scene made us both happy, and the answer to Fisk's knuckles was one neither of us called.
March 19, 2025 →
6.5/10 Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Season 1 Episode 4 Review: A Bridge Episode That Skipped Its Own Button
Episode 4 puts Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk in a fight with their own darkness, brings Frank Castle back, and then stops one beat short of the mask going on. A bridge episode with a rookie mistake at the end of it.
March 19, 2025 →
Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Episode 3 Review: A Tribute to White Tiger That Hit Me at Home
The Hollow of His Hand puts Hector Ayala on trial and barely puts Matt Murdock in the suit, and it's far better than the first two episodes. A Puerto Rican hero, and the legacy of Kamar de los Reyes.
March 18, 2025 →
6.5/10 Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Premiere Review: They Sold Us Foggy and Karen, Then Took Them Away in the Cold Open
The first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again come out of a full creative reset, and you can see the seams. A premiere that hooks you with two characters it has no plan to keep, and a second hour that's better with almost no Daredevil in it.
March 17, 2025 →
Reviews Reacher Three Episodes In, It's Back to the Charm of Season One
We kept Reacher to ourselves for two full seasons. Three episodes into Season 3, the show's gone smaller and more manageable, and it's better for it.
February 27, 2025 →
Reviews The Wheel of Time Eleven Minutes, and It's Not Even as Good as It Gets
Amazon put out eleven minutes of The Wheel of Time Season 3 and the Black Ajah tore the Hall of the Tower apart. A book reader's reaction, and what he's hoping the show is building to.
February 23, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man This Show Shouldn't Have Been This Good
I didn't like the animation and I still don't love it. The story came through anyway, right up to a finale that makes Peter his own origin story, and I'm not sure I like that part.
February 21, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Captain America: Brave New World Brave New World Review: I Don't Know What Movie the Critics Watched
Mrs. Know-It-All and I walked out of the fan event having enjoyed the hell out of this movie. Sam Wilson is Captain America, Harrison Ford didn't phone in a second of it, and there's one editing choice I'd take back.
February 14, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Three Episodes in One Week, and They Pulled Me In
Week two brings three episodes, a Norman Osborn who seems to just want to help, and a football player earning the name Tombstone. The story comes together much better this time.
February 8, 2025 →
Reviews The Fantastic Four: First Steps First Steps Teaser Reaction: This Is the Real Marvel Movie
The first teaser for The Fantastic Four opens in 4:3, hands you Ben Grimm with no warm-up, and puts Galactus over the Statue of Liberty. It's a character trailer, and it's the one that feels like a new era.
February 4, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Big Changes, Real Risks, Surprisingly Works
The first two episodes take the radioactive spider away from Peter Parker, hand Tony Stark's seat to Norman Osborn, and animate it all in a style that isn't for me. The story still held me for both episodes.
January 30, 2025 →
4/10 Reviews Star Trek: Section 31 Section 31 Review: It Tells You a Story and Never Shows It to You
There are so many things wrong with Section 31, and none of them are what everybody else has a problem with. I saw the vision in the first thirty minutes. It's just bad storytelling.
January 26, 2025 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Series Finale Review: One Perfect Ending and One Big Mistake
The Lower Decks series finale stuck the landing hard. Ransom gets the chair, Boimler and Mariner share a job, Starbase 80 finally matters, and the only thing I'd take back is Rutherford's eye.
January 13, 2025 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: Evil Harry Kim, Curzon Dax, and a Boimler Who Hates the Multiverse
Two episodes in one sitting. Upper Decks follows the senior staff through one overbooked day, and the penultimate episode fills a Section 31 ship with cameos and lets a Boimler say what we all think about the multiverse.
December 19, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Wars: Skeleton Crew The Galaxy Gets More Dangerous, and Star Wars Remembers Who It's For
A maybe-Jedi with a pirate name, an owl with maps to everywhere, and a home planet that vanished from the charts. Episode 3 is the nostalgia play done right, and it's an 8.
December 13, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Creature Commandos James Gunn's DCU Starts With Both Barrels
The first premiere in James Gunn's DCU is here, and it's the James Gunn of The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy. Two episodes in, I see the vision.
December 5, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Skeleton Crew Episodes 1 and 2 Review: A Hidden Old Republic Planet and Ewok Adventure Vibes
Skeleton Crew opens with brutal pirates, Star Wars suburbia and a kid paying for lunch in Old Republic credits. It's a giant nostalgia ride, and I think At Attin has been hiding on purpose.
December 3, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: A Shape War, a Floppy Lightning Bolt, and Boimler Cussing at Dr. T'Ana
Starfleet mediates between a race of glowing circles and a race of glowing cubes, Zeus's granddaughter joins the crew on her sixth ship, and Boimler tries to earn a nickname the hard way.
November 21, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Starbase 80 Review: The Zombie Episode That Should've Aired on Halloween
The Cerritos limps into the one starbase Mariner is terrified of, and the crew starts turning into space zombies. It's the most fun Lower Decks has had so far, and it's a solid 8.
November 14, 2024 →
Reviews Dragon Ball Daima The Fusion Bug in the Demon Teahouse
A stolen ship, air too heavy to fly in, and a demon teahouse selling a bug that fuses people. Chatty moves the story forward, and it feels like Dragon Ball GT done right.
November 13, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Dragon Ball Daima Glorio Is the Shadiest One in the Room
Episode 5 introduces Panzy, gives us a glimmer of Super Saiyan, and drops the ship out of the sky. I think Glorio ends up the real villain, and I think this show is airing in chunks too small to review one at a time.
November 13, 2024 →
10/10 Reviews The Penguin Gotham's New Kingpin Sticks the Landing
Oz takes Gotham by turning every gang's right hand against its boss, hands the city its villain, and then does the darkest thing I've seen on television to the one kid who never left his side.
November 11, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: A Farewell to Farms Is the Best Klingon Episode Yet
A Farewell to Farms pushes the main cast into the back seat and spends its time on Klingon ritual, bloodwine and a planet of food critics. It's probably the better episode of the season.
November 8, 2024 →
Reviews The Penguin Oz's Dark Past and Sophia's Ruthless Gambit
The penultimate hour goes back to the night Oz's brothers drowned, then lets Sophia blow a hole in everything he's built. It's the setup kind of penultimate episode, and it sets up a lot.
November 4, 2024 →
6/10 Reviews Dragon Ball Daima The Warp Fish, the Heavy Air, and Who Glorio Really Is
Two thirds of the episode is a flight through the Demon Realm, and it still drops three demon worlds, a gas that makes everything heavier, and a big question about Glorio. Not a bad episode, but nothing big has happened yet.
November 1, 2024 →
Reviews Agatha All Along The Witches' Road Was a Centuries-Long Con
The last two episodes of Agatha All Along reveal who really built the road, what Agatha's deal with Death actually was, and how one song turned into a con that ran for centuries. Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All on a finale that sticks the landing.
October 31, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: A Giant D20, a Runaway Admiral, and Mariner's Weird Breakup
Mariner broke up with Jennifer by walking past her in a bar, Boimler gets scared out of his mind by a man with no hands, and a nanite blob turns into a rolling D20. An 8 out of 10.
October 31, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews The Penguin Gold Summit, the Burgess Easter Egg and a Crowbar in the Hallway
Oz floods Gotham with free product, talks five gangs into one room with a cooler of beer, and tells Vic the most chilling thing I've heard all season. Then Sophia shows up at his mother's door.
October 28, 2024 →
10/10 Reviews Agatha All Along Lilia's Trial Makes Every Crazy Moment Make Sense
The penultimate episode of Agatha All Along hands the whole half hour to Lilia, puts you inside her head, and pays off every random thing she's blurted out all season. Mrs. Know-It-All and I both landed on the same number.
October 25, 2024 →
6/10 Reviews Dragon Ball Daima A Battle Anime Without a Battle
Glorio rewrites how Shenron works, hands kid Goku his staff back, and spends twenty-three minutes getting ready to leave. I liked the new lore. The episode is classic Dragon Ball filler.
October 24, 2024 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 5 Premiere Review: Captain Mariner, Blue Orions, and a Lassoed Comet
The final season opens with two episodes that play as two halves of one story. The Cerritos meets a version of itself where Mariner is the captain, and Tendi has to race for her family's entire fortune.
October 24, 2024 →
Reviews Dragon Ball Daima Make Them Children, Because That's Dragon Ball Logic
The first episode of Dragon Ball Daima reanimates the Buu saga, introduces King Gomah, and turns every hero on Earth into a kid. It wasn't what I expected, and I'm here for it.
October 19, 2024 →
9.0/10 Reviews Agatha All Along Billy's Whole Story in One Episode
Agatha All Along stops to tell you who Teen really is, and it does in a single episode what lesser shows can't do in an entire season. A combined 9.0 from Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All.
October 17, 2024 →
Reviews The Penguin Sophia Takes the Whole Family Out
Cent'anni barely has Oz in it. It's a full character piece that gives you all the Sophia backstory you need, puts her through Arkham, and ends with her alone in that house and ready for bear.
October 14, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Agatha All Along Evanora's Possession Changes Everything
Agatha All Along packs the Salem Seven's origin, a broomstick flight across a blood moon, a possession and a death into 25 minutes, and wastes none of it. A nine from Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All.
October 10, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews The Penguin Vic Finally Gets a Choice
Episode 3 takes a run down memory lane with Vic, hands him a way out of Gotham, and lets him decide for himself whether he's taking it. A character development filler that really works.
October 7, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Agatha All Along Rio's Scar, Alice's Curse, and Who Teen Really Is
The second trial on the Witches' Road belongs to Alice, Rio shows up talking about a job she didn't want to do, and Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All still can't agree on who Teen is. Holding steady at an 8.
October 3, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews The Penguin Inside Man Gives Oz a Mother, a Mole Hunt, and a Little Too Much Luck
Nothing in The Penguin is new, and Episode 2 still works. Oz plays the Falcones against the Maronis, we find out his mother has dementia, and the one turn that needed precision gets handed to him.
September 30, 2024 →
Reviews Agatha All Along Magic Desperate Housewives, and the Gloss Starts to Wear Off
The coven finally gets on the Witches' Road, the first trial is a poisoned girls' night in a beach house, and Mrs. Hart doesn't make it out. A solid 8 from Mr. Know-It-All and an 8.5 from Mrs. Know-It-All.
September 26, 2024 →
Reviews Thunderbolts* Val's Discount Avengers Want Redemption, and Val Has Other Plans
The first Thunderbolts trailer is an origin story for Val's discount Avengers. They want redemption, and I don't think that's anywhere on Val's list.
September 23, 2024 →
6.5/10 Reviews Twilight of the Gods Zack Snyder's Bold and Bloody Norse Saga Is Not for Kids
Take the slow-mo and the live-action habits away from Zack Snyder and there's a story here. All eight episodes of Netflix's Twilight of the Gods, the blood, the sex, and the ending I didn't see coming.
September 22, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews The Penguin Does It Rise to Our Expectations?
The first episode picks up right on the heels of The Batman, hands Colin Farrell the whole show, and starts Oz on the climb toward the Penguin we all know. It doesn't disappoint.
September 20, 2024 →
Reviews Agatha All Along The WandaVision Tone Came Right Back
The first two episodes of Agatha All Along put the MCU back where WandaVision left it. Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All work through the Teen theories, the Wizard of Oz of it all, and who's getting off the road alive.
September 19, 2024 →
News Star Trek: Discovery Doug Jones Wasn't Prepared to Be Fearless
Day one of Star Trek Nashville put David Ajala, Doug Jones and Elias Toufexis on one stage for the Discovery panel. Grudge stories, an animation pitch, and the best answer of the day.
September 13, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Beetlejuice Beetlejuice The 30 Years Later Sequel That Feels Like They Wrapped Last Month
Most sequels that show up three decades late can't find the old rhythm. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice rolls right into it, packs a ridiculous amount into an hour and 45 minutes, and has enough fun to cover its sins.
September 7, 2024 →
7/10 Reviews The Acolyte Relief or Frustration?
The Acolyte is over and I can't tell if I'm more frustrated or more relieved. The finale has some of the best lightsaber work Star Wars has put on screen, and almost none of the connective tissue that would make it matter.
July 17, 2024 →
7/10 Reviews The Acolyte The Right Flashback in the Wrong Place
Episode 7 finally hands over the Jedi side of what happened on Brendok, and it's good. It's also the second to last episode of the season, which is exactly the problem.
July 10, 2024 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Season 2 Review: A Love Letter to Voyager, and Everything We Love About Star Trek
I watched all 20 episodes and I'm floored. Prodigy season 2 ties itself into the 25th century, brings back Janeway, Chakotay, the Doctor and Wesley Crusher, and never once forgets to be Star Trek.
July 9, 2024 →
Reviews The Acolyte Not a Bad Episode, Except It's Not an Episode
I was intrigued by Episode 6, and I mean that. The problem is that it cuts off halfway through its own story, and this whole series has been built that way.
July 3, 2024 →
6/10 Reviews Star Wars The Acolyte Episode 5 Review: Night Is the Fight We Waited For, and the Writing Still Can't Keep Up
Night is the second half of an episode they cut in two, and the lightsaber choreography is glorious. The script it's attached to belongs to a different show. Episodes 4 and 5, judged together.
June 26, 2024 →
7/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Part Two That Showed Its Work While It Cheated
Empire of Death resolves its main threat two thirds of the way through and spends the rest on an answer that undercuts the setup. Mrs. Know-It-All and I work through a long list, spoilers included.
June 22, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews House of the Dragon A Fiery Start That's Already Gone to Dark Places
One episode in, House of the Dragon Season 2 has already gone somewhere I won't say out loud. From the Wall to a son for a son, here's why the premiere lands at a 9.
June 19, 2024 →
3/5 Reviews The Acolyte Half an Episode Gets Half an Index
The writing got better, the Jedi got caught flat-footed, and then somebody cut the back half off the episode. Stopping right before the fight doesn't make it a cliffhanger.
June 19, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who The Best Part One Since Early RTD
The Legend of Ruby Sunday is everything I'd want from a Russell T Davies penultimate episode, and it still pays for a season that didn't build up to it. Mrs. Know-It-All and I land a full point apart.
June 16, 2024 →
4.5/10 Reviews Star Wars The Acolyte Episode 3 Review: The Trappings Are There, the Heart and Soul Is Missing
The Acolyte Episode 3 is a full flashback that rewrites how the Force works and hopes forty years of Star Wars fans won't notice. I've got problems with it, and they aren't the ones everybody else is arguing about.
June 13, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who No Notes on the Most Doctor Who Episode of the Season
Rogue drops the Doctor and Ruby into a Bridgerton ball, hands the Doctor a bounty hunter to flirt with, and slips the Shalka Doctor into the lineup of faces. I said no notes, and I meant it.
June 10, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 1 Premiere Review: I Was Watching It Wrong
I went back to The Vulcan Hello and Battle at the Binary Stars with the eyes I found at the end of season 4. It's Michael Burnham's story, period, and once I stopped asking it to be classic Star Trek, the premiere worked.
June 7, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Wars A Revenge Plot Where the Jedi Don't Act Like Jedi
Two episodes dropped and neither one feels like its own episode. The Acolyte is blazing new Star Wars territory with a mystery that isn't giving me enough, and Jedi who seem dense.
June 5, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who Finally, an Episode That Feels Like Doctor Who
Dot and Bubble is a social media allegory that never once feels preachy, and its last scene is the moment I learned who Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor is.
June 2, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Series Finale Review: All the Trappings of a Star Trek Ending, None of the Earning
Life, Itself gives Discovery a wedding, a time jump, an admiral and one last mission. I loved the ending, and it still didn't feel earned. The longest running Star Trek series with the fewest episodes ran out of time.
May 30, 2024 →
7/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Brilliant Episode That Never Gives You an Ending
73 Yards has brilliant acting, a real mystery in Wales and a Doctor who vanishes in the first few minutes. Then it resolves itself with nothing, and I can't tell you what it was about.
May 25, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 5 Episode 9 Review: Lagrange Point Ends on the Cliffhanger It Needed
Lagrange Point is wall to wall events, with tension so high I caught myself asking what was going on. Burnham being the hero doesn't bother me, the crew trusting Rayner this fast does, and the ending sets up the series finale.
May 23, 2024 →
6.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who Steven Moffat Forgot He Wasn't Writing for Matt Smith
Steven Moffat comes back to write Boom, and it plays like he's still writing for Matt Smith. A bottle episode on a landmine that preaches more than it moves, and the first miss of the season for me.
May 18, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 5 Episode 8 Review: Labyrinths Is So Good It Frustrates Me
Burnham gets pulled into her own mind, the Breen show up to the archive making threats, and Labyrinths turns out to be the episode I wish this season had gotten to sooner.
May 16, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who The Toymaker's Kid Steals Music, and Ruby Doesn't Add Up
The Devil's Chord is the first time this new era picks a villain back up, with Maestro arriving as the Toymaker's kid. It's groovy, it's fun, and a cosmic entity looks at Ruby and says something is very wrong.
May 13, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who The Babies Look Atrocious and That's When I Knew It Was Doctor Who
Space Babies is shiny, glossy and full of Disney money, and it still has talking babies, a bogeyman and a spaceship that farts. Mrs. Know-It-All and I both land on the same number.
May 12, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 5 Episode 7 Review: Erigah Gets the Show Back on Track
Erigah drags the Breen into the Progenitor chase in a big, bad way, kills off L'ak, and gets Star Trek: Discovery back to the story it's actually telling. Full breakdown and the Know-It-All Index.
May 9, 2024 →
Reviews Superman A Tired Man Pulling His Boots Back On Is as Superman as It Gets
The first official look at David Corenswet's Superman suit dropped and the internet lost its ever-loving mind. I like the suit, it's grown on me, and in James Gunn I trust until he gives me a reason not to.
May 8, 2024 →
10/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Tolerance Is Extinction Part 2 Went There With Wolverine and Magneto
Magneto didn't set off a pulse, he killed the planet. Then the penultimate episode of X-Men '97 gave us Jean Grey versus Sinister and the Fatal Attractions moment on the asteroid. It's a 10.
May 8, 2024 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 5 Episode 6 Review: Whistlespeak's B Plot Is the Better Episode
Whistlespeak is the Prime Directive episode, and it comes with a literal foot race. The A plot is the least interesting thing about it. Burnham's conversation about faith and Dr. Culber's storyline are what save it.
May 2, 2024 →
9.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Tolerance Is Extinction Part 1 Sets the Stage Beautifully
The run-up to the season 1 finale starts here. Bastion is the villain just like we knew he was, Operation Zero Tolerance gets said out loud, and the Marvel animated universe gets a whole lot fuller in one episode.
May 1, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Episode 5 Review: Mirrors Finds the ISS Enterprise, and the Plot Starts to Plot
Discovery's fifth episode of the season puts Burnham and Book aboard the ISS Enterprise, hands Moll and L'ak a backstory, and gets a little sloppy on the way to the next clue.
April 25, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Rogue Is on Fire, and the True Villain Is Bastion
Rogue tears through a military prison, throws Captain America's shield into the mountains, and drops Bolivar Trask. Then the last scene shows you the real villain, and my theory was wrong.
April 24, 2024 →
Reacts Deadpool & Wolverine 20 Easter Eggs You Missed
The first Deadpool & Wolverine trailer with real story beats is packed with callbacks to Logan, X-Men: First Class, Old Man Logan and Rob Liefeld's feet. Here's everything hiding in it.
April 22, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery "Face the Strange" Review: A Filler Episode All Day, and That's Not Bad
Discovery season 5 stops its chase for a time travel episode and a bottle episode in the same hour. It's filler, it feels lumped in, and it still kept me engaged the whole way through.
April 18, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Storm Gets Her Lightning Back While Genosha Burns
Lifedeath, Part 2 brings X-Men 275 to life, puts Storm and Forge in a house with the Adversary, and sends Xavier to the Shi'ar throne room. It's a filler episode, and it's a good one.
April 17, 2024 →
9.5/10 Reviews Fallout All 8 Episodes From a Guy Who Never Played the Games
I walked into Fallout knowing the mobile game and nothing else. Eight episodes later I knew exactly what was going on, and that's the whole reason this series lands where it does on the Index.
April 16, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Guy Ritchie, Based on True Events, and It Doesn't Disappoint
Guy Ritchie takes the three most magical words in cinema, based on true events, and delivers exactly the movie he sold you. Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, and the mission that gave Ian Fleming his M.
April 15, 2024 →
7.7/10 Reviews Civil War It's Nothing You Think It's Going to Be
The marketing sold a movie about a civil war. What Mrs. Know-It-All and I actually sat through is the weirdest road trip movie you're ever going to see, and it only has something to say three times.
April 12, 2024 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Jinaal Review: The Filler Episode That Earns Its Keep
Season 5, episode 3 slows the chase down to lay groundwork on Trill, and one passing line about the Dominion War does more for this world than a graphic ever could. A solid 8.
April 11, 2024 →
10/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Remember It, and You Will
X-Men '97 Episode 5 packs a UN recognition, a proposal, Rogue's full backstory and the fall of Genosha into about 28 minutes. It's appropriately titled, and it's a solid 10 out of 10.
April 10, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Invincible Every Thread Is I Thought You Were Stronger
The Invincible Season 2 finale sends Mark through the multiverse, hands us a Spider-Man who can't be called Spider-Man, and hangs every storyline on its own title. A 9 for the episode and an 8.5 for the season.
April 5, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 5 Premiere Review: The Ultimate Callback Is a Space Treasure Hunt
Red Directive and Under the Twin Moons open the final season of Star Trek: Discovery with a hull-surfing chase, the return of Book, and a callback straight out of The Next Generation. The adventure wastes no time.
April 4, 2024 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Full Retrospective: A Novel in Chapters, and I Just Now Got It
A season of Star Trek: Discovery is what we used to call a two-part episode, and it took me four seasons to see it. I went back through season 4 with new eyes, and here's what the show, its characters and its legacy look like now.
April 3, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Mojo Comes Back and Forge Has a Secret
Motendo / Lifedeath Part 1 is one short story and half of the next one, a trick the old show borrowed from comic book backup stories. Mojo is an incredible callback, and Storm's story finally moves.
April 3, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire The New Empire Review: They Should've Just Called It Kong and Friends
I went in expecting nothing more than a fun monster flick, and that's what we got. Not a lot of story, a very convenient power glove, and a movie I'll watch again all day.
April 1, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Invincible A Filler Episode With Something to Say
As filler episodes go, this one's a doozy. Invincible lays a lot of groundwork in 'I'm Not Going Anywhere,' and underneath all of it is one idea: who actually gets to choose.
March 28, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Truth About the Goblin Queen
There are two Jeans, one of them is a clone, and Mister Sinister has been pulling the strings the whole time. Fire Made Flesh runs the entire Inferno saga in one episode, and that speed is my one real complaint.
March 27, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Frozen Empire Review: If You Liked Ghostbusters II, You'll Have a Good Time Here
The pundits have piled on this one, and I'm going to disappoint them. Frozen Empire feels lived in, it finally gives the franchise a villain who isn't Gozer, and it belongs right in line with the other movies.
March 23, 2024 →
Reviews Madame Web The Spider We Wish We Didn't Catch
We waited to watch Madame Web because we didn't want to pay for it, and it still cost us an hour and 50 minutes. A good cast, a script that leans on convenience in every scene, and two numbers on the Index.
March 23, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Halo They Walked Us Right Up to the Door of the First Game
The Halo Season 2 finale is titled Halo for a reason. We finally get the complete Master Chief, the Flood shows up, and the show butts right up against the very first game.
March 21, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews Invincible It's Not That Simple, and the Cliffhanger Gets Hand-Waved
Invincible Season 2 Episode 6 comes off a really good cliffhanger and resolves it with no tension at all, then spends the hour on a breakup in slow motion. A filler episode, and a 7 and a half.
March 21, 2024 →
Reviews X-Men '97 They Did Worse Than Kill Storm
I woke up and watched both episodes like it was Saturday morning. Episode 1 couldn't have started better, and Episode 2 takes something from Storm that's built into her DNA. Two episodes, two numbers.
March 20, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Halo Thermopylae Puts Everybody Through the Fire
The penultimate episode of Halo Season 2 is the setup for something huge. John takes his suit back, the Spartan-IIIs get handed a lie, and Halsey walks through a Forerunner door.
March 14, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews Invincible Too Much Story, Not Enough Room
Invincible comes back for the second half of Season 2 with a bang and crams a whole lot into one episode. I like where it's going. I just wanted it to breathe.
March 14, 2024 →
Reviews The Crow Mrs. Know-It-All Hates Reboots, and She's Seeing This One in Theaters
The first trailer for the new Crow dropped and we recorded the minute it ended. It isn't rebooting the 1994 movie. It's going back to the graphic novel, and for the first time this story looks like it was shot in a real city.
March 14, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews Halo Onyx Pulls Every Thread Toward the Finish
John's out for revenge, Kai goes looking for the truth, and Makee turns to Cortana. Onyx takes every thread this season has been laying and gives it a very satisfying pull toward the end.
March 7, 2024 →
Reviews Star Trek Shinzon vs Nero, and Why Nero Wins It Two Rounds to One
Shinzon from Star Trek Nemesis against Nero from the 2009 Star Trek, in three rounds. Shinzon's the better mind, Nero's the stronger fighter, and the Narada settles it.
March 5, 2024 →
The Files Star Trek Why Cartwright's Betrayal Takes the Cake
Stefan Ritter asked which of Star Trek's corrupt admirals is my favorite, and why. There's a long shelf to pick from, and my answer goes back to Star Trek IV.
March 5, 2024 →
Reviews Star Trek Sci-Fi or Physics Reality?
Physics on Quora asked whether warp speed is possible, how you'd build the ship, and what would go wrong for the crew. By today's standards, no. By tomorrow's, maybe, and the deflector dish is where the trouble starts.
March 5, 2024 →
The Files Star Trek: Voyager Voyager and B'Elanna Torres: She Was Exactly What She Needed to Be
A viewer asks whether B'Elanna Torres was too Klingon and should have been used to show Latin culture instead. Mr. Know-It-All, who is Puerto Rican and spent years with a Klingon persona, disagrees.
March 5, 2024 →
The Files Real Talk What I Love About Science Fiction Is the Hope
Michael asked what makes science fiction enjoyable for me. It starts with Back to the Future, runs straight through Star Trek and Isaac Asimov, and lands on a better tomorrow.
March 5, 2024 →
The Files Star Trek Scotty Wrote the Book O'Brien and Torres Followed
A top three of Starfleet engineers, ranked by who had to do the most with the least. Miles O'Brien at three, B'Elanna Torres at two, and Scotty at number one, with an honorable mention for Geordi La Forge.
March 5, 2024 →
The Files Star Trek Shinzon vs. Nero, and Why Scotty Is Still the Best Engineer
The first Know-It-All Files takes your Star Trek questions: the best corrupt admiral, the top three engineers, whether warp speed is possible, B'Elanna Torres, and a death match where Nero takes Shinzon two rounds to one.
March 4, 2024 →
10/10 Reviews Dune: Part Two Part Two Review: A Milestone in Cinema, and I Know Where This Story Goes
A lot of people are calling Dune: Part Two a perfect movie. I don't know about perfect, but it's a 10 all day, and it's a cautionary tale about messiahs that the third movie is going to make very uncomfortable.
March 2, 2024 →
Reviews Halo The Fall of Reach in a T-Shirt
Halo gave us the Fall of Reach with Master Chief out of the suit, then paused the whole show for character development. One of these two episodes earns it more than the other.
February 29, 2024 →
Reviews Doctor Who Who's Your Favorite Doctor? Mrs. Know-It-All Picks David Tennant, I Pick Matt Smith
Mrs. Know-It-All pulled me in front of the camera to talk Doctor Who: where to find the Doctors before Tom Baker, the movie with Paul McGann, and why Matt Smith is my Doctor.
February 9, 2024 →
7/10 Reviews Halo Sanctuary and Sword Land Like a Spartan's Punch
The Halo season 2 premiere settles the Cortana question in its first scene, brings the action down to earth, and hands Master Chief a new problem named James Ackerson. A solid 7 out of 10.
February 8, 2024 →
6/10 Reviews Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One Review: A Tightrope Between Homage and Innovation
Part One is a good-looking, action-packed entry that assumes you've seen every Tomorrowverse movie and trades the Flash's sacrifice for a plot about building devices. A 6 out of 10.
February 6, 2024 →
6/10 Reviews Argylle A Spy Movie That Can't Find Its Footing in Action or Comedy
Matthew Vaughn's Argylle has a stacked cast and a clever story-within-a-story premise, and it buries both under a confusing plot and a runtime that's a marathon. A 6 out of 10.
February 5, 2024 →
Reviews Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Frozen Empire Trailer Reaction: Walter Peck Is Back and I'm Down for It
The new Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire trailer hands its opening to Walter Peck, and that sent me straight back to the IDW comic where he ended up running the Ghostbusters.
January 31, 2024 →
Reviews Awards Season On the Road to the Oscars, Cillian Murphy Has Nothing to Fear Except Paul Giamatti
The Critics Choice Awards got out of their own way, the Emmys threw television the party it deserved, and animation got pushed off camera. Where all of it leaves the road to the Oscars.
January 17, 2024 →
7/10 Reviews The Beekeeper Jason Statham's '90s Action Throwback Delivers
The Beekeeper is a throwback to the golden era of '90s action, with Jason Statham as a retired assassin who'd rather use a gasoline pump than a gun. A solid 7 out of 10, and a ride worth taking.
January 13, 2024 →
Reviews Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson Are Already Being Asked What Comes After Season Two
One Christmas special into the new run, both leads are getting cagey about life after their second season, and it's raising alarm bells. I'm excited, I'm not worried, and I don't think you should be either.
January 10, 2024 →
Reviews Echo This Show Belongs Next to Netflix Daredevil
I got up at 3 in the morning and binge-watched all five episodes of Marvel Spotlight's Echo. It belongs right up there with the Netflix Daredevil, Punisher and Jessica Jones shows, and I don't know what anybody's talking about.
January 10, 2024 →
Reviews Golden Globes Taylor Swift Needed to Read the Room
Jo Koy took the beating for the 2024 Golden Globes, but the room he was working is basically a roast. Plus why Barbie winning the first Cinematic Achievement award actually means something.
January 10, 2024 →
News Real Talk Taylor Swift Needed to Read the Room, and Star Trek Needs Legacy
The first Know-It-All Nation live show: Jo Koy and Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes, Barbie's new award, Star Trek: Legacy, the Kirk snub, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Tom Cruise, and Echo.
January 10, 2024 →
News Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Cleans Up at the Astras, and Shatner Wants to Know Where Kirk Went
Picard season three cleaned up at the Astra Awards, Terry Matalas won for writing, and Jeri Ryan won too. If that doesn't scream Star Trek: Legacy, nothing does. Plus William Shatner, Paramount+, and a captain missing from the picture.
January 10, 2024 →
Reviews Star Wars The Mandalorian Movie, Rey Skywalker's Return, and the Only Thing I'm Asking For
Lucasfilm has a Mandalorian movie in production, Ahsoka Season 2 got announced in a single sentence, and the new Rey movie's director said something that set people off. All I want is a good Star Wars movie.
January 10, 2024 →
News Tom Cruise He's Not Putting on Tights to Do It
Tom Cruise is setting up shop at Warner Bros., and the internet already has him joining the DCU. He's not. The bigger story is what it says about Paramount and who survives the streaming wars.
January 10, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa Sprints Into the TARDIS
The Christmas special is back where it belongs, Ncuti Gatwa feels at home as the Doctor from his first scene, and Mrs. Flood has the whole Know-It-All household guessing.
December 28, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Rick and Morty The Season 7 Finale Hides Morty's Biggest Fear in a Denny's Bathroom
The season 7 finale drops Rick and Morty into a Fear Hole in a Denny's men's room, and what's waiting at the bottom is Morty's fear that Rick doesn't need him. A solid 9.
December 18, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Legacy of Monsters Episode 6 Review: Godzilla Rises From the Desert and Hiroshi Is Finally Found
The mid-season episode, Terrifying Miracles, finds Hiroshi in the Algerian desert, outs May as a traitor and brings Godzilla up out of the sand. An 8.5 on the Know-It-All Index.
December 15, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews Rick and Morty Ragnarick' Review: Bigfoot, the Pope and a Trip to Valhalla
Baby Know-It-All fills in for her dad on Season 7, Episode 9, where Rick dies on purpose to rob Norse heaven and Bigfoot ends up working for the Pope. Quite entertaining, and a 7.5.
December 11, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Doctor Who Two Doctors, One Toymaker, and a Goodbye I Wasn't Ready For
The third 60th anniversary special brings back a villain from a lost 1960s story, splits the Doctor in two, and lets David Tennant's Doctor finally stop and go home. Spoilers for all of it.
December 10, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Legacy of Monsters Episode 5 Review: The Way Out Trades the Monsters for Cate's Backstory
Episode 5 shows Godzilla and the Titans only in brief flashbacks and puts the spotlight on Cate, her mother, and what G-Day actually did to her. A 7.5 on the Know-It-All Index.
December 8, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Violent Night A Santa Like No Other
Day 5 of the 25 Days of Christmas takes a wild turn. Mercenaries hit a wealthy family's home on Christmas Eve and don't count on Santa being there. A perfect 10.
December 5, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who Something So Bad the TARDIS Ran Away
The second 60th anniversary special is a two-actor bottle episode at the edge of the universe, and it's about as RTD as Doctor Who gets. Mrs. Know-It-All and I walk through all of it, spoilers included.
December 3, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Rise of the Guardians All the Holidays Became Superheroes
Day 2 of the 25 Days of Christmas. Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman and Jack Frost get brought together to protect the children of the world, and it's the movie that showed me everything Christmas could be.
December 2, 2023 →
7/10 Reviews Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Legacy of Monsters Episode 4 Review: The Ice Titan Chases Everybody in Circles
Episode 4, Parallels and Interiors, is a filler episode. The leads literally go in circles in Alaska while an Ice Titan eats their campfire. They did a good job with it anyway. A 7 on the Know-It-All Index.
December 1, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews The Nightmare Before Christmas Why Halloween Invaded Christmas
The 25 Days of Christmas starts with the movie that makes you question which holiday is truly the spookiest. Jack Skellington, Oogie Boogie, and a new kind of stop-motion Christmas.
December 1, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Rick and Morty Season 7 Finally Gives Summer Her Due
Season 7, episode 7 was teased as a Morty and Summer adventure and turns out to be a Rick and Summer episode, with a Kuato on her belly and Rick choosing a favorite. A solid 8.
November 27, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who Tennant and Donna Come Back Like They Never Left
The first 60th anniversary special skips the new-Doctor warm-up, puts David Tennant and Donna back in the same room, and feels like a warm hug. Mrs. Know-It-All and I walk through all of it.
November 26, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Invincible Nolan's Back, and Debbie's Done Waiting
The Invincible mid-season finale, It's Been a While, puts Nolan and Mark in the most awkward father-son reunion ever while Debbie finally lets go, maybe at the worst possible time. A solid 8 out of 10.
November 24, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Legacy of Monsters Episode 3 Recap: Godzilla Gets Nuked and Lee Shaw Breaks Out
A 90-year-old relic busts out of Monarch's retirement home in a rented minivan, and in 1954 the Army drops a nuclear bomb on Godzilla. An 8.5 on the Know-It-All Index.
November 22, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Rick and Morty A Clip Show Built From Adventures We Never Saw
Season 7, episode 6 has Morty cashing in several seasons of adventure punch cards, and Rick calls in an all-seeing Observer to audit the receipts. A solid 8, and a season 1 throwback.
November 20, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Scott Loses the First Fight and Everybody Else Gets a Story
The anime starts like the story you know, then Matthew Patel wins and the whole thing pivots. Mr. Know-It-All and Baby Know-It-All walk all eight episodes and land on a solid 9.
November 19, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Legacy of Monsters Premiere Review: More Monsters Than I've Seen Since Saturday Morning
The first two episodes of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters don't waste any time. Two Russells playing one man, a story told across several time frames, and monsters like you've never seen before.
November 18, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews Invincible I Read the Comics and Still Wasn't Ready
Mark goes to college, Allen the Alien gets an origin story, Debbie can't find peace anywhere, and the cliffhanger lands sooner than the comics had me expecting. A 7 and a half.
November 17, 2023 →
Reviews Rick and Morty The Psychological Showdown and What Evil Morty Did to It
Rick Prime tells Rick C-137 he would've been him, and that one line about a garage is the whole fight. A look at the narcissism, the revenge and Evil Morty's return.
November 14, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Rick and Morty Rick Prime's End and Evil Morty's Gambit
Unmortricken gives us Evil Morty's origin story, a battle royale of Ricks and the end of Rick Prime, and then lets Rick's victory ring hollow. A 9 out of 10.
November 13, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews The Marvels The Sequel to a Captain Marvel Movie We Never Got
The Marvels is fun, light-hearted, and I enjoyed it. It also keeps selling me a better movie that happened between the panels, and that is why it stops at a 7.5.
November 11, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Loki That Is What I Call Sticking the Landing
Glorious Purpose shares its name with episode one and earns it. Loki spends centuries learning the Loom, walks the gangplank himself, and the finale lands a 10 out of 10.
November 10, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews The Marvels A Popcorn Flick With Superpowers, and Kamala Khan Is the Shining Star
The Marvels is a roller coaster through the stars with Iman Vellani leaping right out of the comics as Ms. Marvel. Captain Marvel herself is still cold and one note, and somebody needs to explain the guy in the eye patch.
November 9, 2023 →
News The Marvels 7 Things to Know Before Carol, Kamala and Monica Land
Carol Danvers has a new name she didn't ask for, Monica Rambeau has a grudge, and there's an incursion on the way. Seven things to know before The Marvels, spoilers included.
November 7, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Invincible This Is Where a Superhero Creates Their Own Villain
The Invincible Season 2 premiere opens on Invincible and Omni-Man conquering the world, introduces Sterling K. Brown as Angstrom Levy, and shows the part where a superhero creates their own villain. A solid 8.
November 3, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Loki Science Fiction Is the Slow Episode You Needed
The penultimate episode of Loki Season 2 is purposefully paced, and everything in it is vital. Loki learns to control his time slipping, the branches are dying, and the finale is set.
November 3, 2023 →
8.0/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks "Old Friends, New Planets" Review: A Paywall on a Genesis Device and a Planet Named Locarno
The season 4 finale brings back Nick Locarno, Sito and Wil Wheaton, borrows its nebula from Wrath of Khan, and ends with the Ferengi charging two bars of latinum to disarm a bomb.
November 2, 2023 →
Reviews Invincible Every Episode, From It's About Time to Where I Really Come From
With Invincible Season 2 right around the corner on Prime Video, here's the saga of Mark Grayson one episode at a time, from the Guardians of the Globe to the day Nolan finally says we need to talk.
October 31, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Rick and Morty A Recovering Narcissist Watches Rick Run Into His Ex
Air Force Wong puts Rick back in a room with Unity and puts the President on Dr. Wong's couch. It's a much deeper episode than I expected from a 22-minute adult cartoon, and it's a solid 8.
October 30, 2023 →
Reviews Five Nights at Freddy's Your Kid's First Horror Movie
Five Nights at Freddy's is an entry-level horror movie built for a young audience, and if you watch it that way, it's a fun time. A 7.5 from Mr. Know-It-All and an 8 from Mrs. Know-It-All.
October 28, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Loki Ouroboros Earns His Name, and I Hand Out My First 10
Heart of the TVA loops all the way back to the first episode of the season, puts Victor Timely in front of the Loom, and burns the place to the ground. It's my first 10 out of 10.
October 27, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: The Inner Fight Finally Explains Why Mariner Won't Take the Promotion
The penultimate episode of season four reaches back to two Next Generation episodes, brings back Nick Locarno, and gives Mariner the one reason she's never wanted to be more than an ensign.
October 26, 2023 →
9.0/10 Reviews Rick and Morty A Mind Swap That Feels Like Classic Rick and Morty
The Jerrick Trap merges Rick and Jerry into one mind in two bodies, and it's good old-fashioned Rick and Morty fun. The Know-It-All family lands on a strong 9.0.
October 23, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Loki 1893 Finally Shows Us the Big Picture
Victor Timely, the Chicago World's Fair, and a Miss Minutes who ain't right. Episode 3 lays down good groundwork without blowing me away.
October 20, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Caves Review: A Bottle Episode Where Every Planet Has the Same Cave
Season 4 Episode 8 traps the lower deckers in a cave with carnivorous moss and makes them trade cave stories to get out. It's a bottle episode, a joke about Paramount's old cave set, and a callback to the very first episode.
October 19, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Rick and Morty The Season 7 Premiere Jedi Mind Tricks You Into the New Voices
The season 7 premiere had to sell two new voice actors as Rick and Morty. It does it by surrounding them with every voice you already know, and it feels like a rebirth.
October 16, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Loki Breaking Brad Is All-Out Chaos, and I'm Here for It
Loki finally gets to flex, good cop bad cop goes out the window, and Dox and her crew turn out to be pruning timelines wholesale. A solid 9 out of 10.
October 13, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 7 Review: A Few Badgeys More Is the One I Finally Liked
Season 4 has been a little lackluster. Then Badgey splits himself into three, Peanut Hamper turns out to mean her parole speech, and AGIMUS finally gives up what's happening to those ships.
October 12, 2023 →
Reviews Daredevil: Born Again Born Again Is Starting Over, and I'm Glad: The Know-It-All News
Marvel halted Daredevil: Born Again with less than half of its 18 episodes shot and let its head writers go. Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All on why that's the right call, plus He-Man, The Wheel of Time and the state of Star Wars.
October 11, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews Loki Ouroboros Is a Very Good Start, and Marvel Is Earning It Back
Loki comes back getting stretched like a rubber band across the TVA's past, present and future, and the premiere spends its whole hour getting him sorted out. A strong beginning that picks up like Season 1 ended last week.
October 6, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews The Continental: From the World of John Wick Theatre of Pain Works Really Well Until It Doesn't
The final night of The Continental is nearly a two-hour movie, and the hotel siege is one of the most satisfying third acts I've seen. Then the lights go out, and the ending gets handwavy.
October 6, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews The Wheel of Time Mat Blows the Horn and the Show Earns a 10
Everybody thinks Rand has to blow the Horn of Valere. In "What Was Meant To Be," Mat blows it instead, Egwene frees herself, and Moghedien walks in. Mrs. Know-It-All and I talk through the finale.
October 6, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 6 Review: Parth Ferengi's Heart Place Is All Subplots
Rom is Grand Nagus, the Ferengi built a Dominion War memorial to lost profits, and there's no main plot holding any of it together. A fun episode in a season that's taking its time.
October 5, 2023 →
9.0/10 Reviews Star Wars Ahsoka Season 1 Finale Review: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord Left Me at the Beginning of Something
The Ahsoka finale gives Sabine the Force, gets Thrawn home, and hands Ray Stevenson one last majestic shot as Baylan. The only complaint in the house was the zombies.
October 4, 2023 →
Reviews Loki The First Four Episodes Neither Shatter Nor Soar
Four episodes into Loki Season 2 with no spoilers. The story sails on the okay seas of recent MCU outings, and it's the cast that keeps the mischief afloat.
October 3, 2023 →
9.5/10 Reviews Loki Every Episode Before Season 2, and Why It's a 9.5
All six episodes of Loki Season 1, from Glorious Purpose to For All Time. Always., recapped before Season 2. A beautiful disaster that drove us properly into the Multiverse.
October 2, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews The Continental: From the World of John Wick Loyalty to the Master Gets Things Rolling
Night 2 of The Continental picks up right where we left off, with Winston building a crew to take out Cormac. The fights are top-notch, the threads are piling up, and Charon picks a side.
September 29, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews The Wheel of Time Daes Dae'mar Sets the Stage and Stops There
Lanfear walks through a town flicking fire, Moiraine gets the Source back, and the Amyrlin Seat uses an oath as a weapon. Mrs. Know-It-All and I agree on the number, and on what the episode was missing.
September 29, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 5 Review: Empathological Fallacies Gives Lady Spock Her Episode
T'Lyn saved her last ship by trusting her instincts and got punished for it. Empathological Fallacies puts her at the center, and it's a real improvement on last week.
September 28, 2023 →
6/10 Reviews Star Trek: The Next Generation The Next Generation Encounter at Farpoint Review: The Pilot, Reviewed Like It's 1987
Thirty-six years to the day after Encounter at Farpoint aired, I reviewed the Next Generation pilot the way I would've at eight years old. Then I gave it the score it earns today.
September 28, 2023 →
7/10 Reviews Star Wars Ahsoka Episode 7 Review: Dreams and Madness Is a Penultimate Episode That's Just Kind of There
The second-to-last episode of an eight-episode season is supposed to be great. Part 7 gives us Kung Fu Ezra, Baylan cutting Shin loose, and Thrawn doing the math, and it still feels like it's telling us there's no resolution coming.
September 27, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews The Continental: From the World of John Wick Brothers in Arms Opens the Hotel and Leaves Winston With a Question
The first night of Peacock's John Wick prequel nails the action and the 1970s mood, still plays like a made-for-TV movie, and sets up a question about Winston Scott it's going to have to answer. A 7.5.
September 22, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews The Wheel of Time Eyes Without Pity Breaks Egwene, and Madeleine Madden Carries It
Eyes Without Pity puts Egwene in the kennels and doesn't look away. Mrs. Know-It-All and I talk through the pitcher, the Sitter of the Blue on the other side of the wall, and Mat finally being the Mat I always wanted.
September 22, 2023 →
6/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks 'Something Borrowed, Something Green' Review: Orion Is the Bright Spot, the B Plot Is the Slump
Tendi goes home to Orion for a wedding and the show finally digs into her family. Back on the Cerritos, two guys dress up as Mark Twain and an alien eats a bonsai tree. I gave it a six.
September 21, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Wars Ahsoka Episode 6 Review: Far, Far Away Is a Good Bridge Episode With a Lackluster Ezra Reveal
Part Six finally answers where Ezra is, puts Thrawn on screen with his suit perfectly pressed, and hands us the Ewoks of another galaxy. It's a bridge episode, a good one, and the reveal we waited for is the one beat that falls flat.
September 20, 2023 →
Reviews The Continental: From the World of John Wick 7 Things to Know Before You Watch the John Wick Series on Peacock
An alternate 1970s New York, Winston's brother stealing from the hotel, and a three-week stunt boot camp. Here's what you should know before The Continental drops on Peacock.
September 19, 2023 →
9.5/10 Reviews The Wheel of Time Damane Is the Name Drop Episode, and Nothing Got Lost
The Seanchan, the Black Ajah, Aviendha and a pile of Forsaken names all land in one hour. Mrs. Know-It-All and I couldn't find a single thing we didn't like.
September 15, 2023 →
Reviews Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Strangely Excited, and It Feels Weird
The horror stories about the test screenings are everywhere, and the first Aquaman wasn't my movie. Then the trailer dropped, and I'm strangely excited about an Aquaman movie.
September 14, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 3 Review: In the Cradle of Vexilon Sells You Boimler and Hands You Three Stories
Boimler leads his first away mission, Captain Freeman reboots a computer that hasn't had an update in six million years, and the new lieutenants get stuck scanning isolinear chips. A fun one, and an 8 from both of us.
September 14, 2023 →
9.0/10 Reviews Star Wars Ahsoka Episode 5 Review: Shadow Warrior Got Me Back
Last week's ending had me upset. Shadow Warrior makes up for it with Anakin Skywalker, the first live-action Clone Wars, and a ride out of the galaxy in the mouth of a purrgil.
September 13, 2023 →
8.0/10 Reviews The Wheel of Time Daughter of Night Made Me Stop Nitpicking
Selene turns out to be Lanfear, Moiraine goes home to Cairhien, and Perrin finally learns the wolf's name. Mrs. Know-It-All and I talk through the episode that got a book reader to put the books down.
September 8, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 4 Premiere Review: Twovix, a Bone-Eating Moopsy, and the Same Gags Four Seasons In
Two episodes to open season four. A walk down Voyager memory lane, promotions for almost everybody, and a cute little creature that will suck the bones right out of you. Two episodes, two numbers.
September 7, 2023 →
6.0/10 Reviews Star Wars Ahsoka Episode 4 Review: Fallen Jedi Is the Second Half of Last Week's Episode
Part Four has an excellent rematch, a great duel and Hayden Christensen back as Anakin. It's also 34 minutes that should've been stapled to last week's 24, and that's what the score is about.
September 6, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 3 Recap: Psychic Landmines, Section 31, and a Fleet of Texas Class Ships Gone Wrong
All ten episodes of Lower Decks season three in one sitting, from Captain Freeman's trial to the Texas class fleet turning on Starfleet. Everything you need before season four.
September 5, 2023 →
Reviews The Wheel of Time Three Episodes, One Change That Tripped Me Up
Season 2 opens a year later with everybody scattered and Rand presumed dead. As a fan of the books I didn't trip over anything until Nynaeve walked into the third arch. Mrs. Know-It-All joins me, and we don't agree on the scores.
September 1, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Wars Ahsoka Episode 3 Review: Time to Fly Is a Setup Episode That Packs a Lot Into 34 Minutes
Part Three is a short one, a bridge episode with a lightsaber fight on the wing of a ship and our first real look at the purrgil. Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All on why the setup works and why the Rebels complaints don't.
August 30, 2023 →
Reviews The Wheel of Time The Bones Are the Same, Just Rearranged
A book reader who's been turning these pages since The Matrix on what Amazon's first season kept, what it cut, and why Brandon Sanderson being on board was good enough for me.
August 29, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek Pike, Riker and a Deep Space Nine Convert
It's Mrs. Know-It-All's first Star Trek Day, so we sat down with the questions I'd been posting all day. Who takes command, which Enterprise wore it best, who's your doctor, and how one tribble double feature got her hooked on Deep Space Nine.
August 25, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Wars Ahsoka Series Premiere Review: Two Episodes That Feel More Star Wars Than The Mandalorian
Master and Apprentice and Toil and Trouble, judged together the way they were served. Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All came in without the animated homework, and the premiere never made them feel it.
August 23, 2023 →
Reviews Star Wars From Anakin's Padawan to the Hunt for Thrawn
Before Star Wars: Ahsoka debuts on Disney+, here are the seven things you need to know about her, from the Clone Wars and the white lightsabers to Thrawn and the question of where Ezra is.
August 21, 2023 →
Reviews Blue Beetle The Reyes Family Hits the Family Note Harder Than Fast and Furious
Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All walked straight out of the theater and into the studio. A 9.5 from him, a 9 from her, and a family that wastes everybody once the chips are down.
August 20, 2023 →
9.5/10 Reviews Blue Beetle You've Seen Stuff Like This, You've Never Seen Anything Like This
Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All walk straight out of the theater and into a non-spoiler review of Blue Beetle. An origin story that feels like a phase one Marvel movie, with a family that carries it the whole way through.
August 18, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Barbie Baby Know-It-All's Recap, and Why Allan Is the Best Part
Baby Know-It-All takes the chair for Barbie, walks the whole movie from the Dream House to the gynecologist, and hands it a 10 out of 10 for how slay it was.
August 17, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds They Did the To Be Continued, and It Worked
The season 2 finale ends on the one thing every Star Trek fan remembers hating, a to be continued. The Gorn, the wreck of the Cayuga, a very clever Scotsman, and a cliffhanger that comes in a close second to The Best of Both Worlds.
August 10, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds A Musical Is Where You Draw the Line?
Everybody came out of the gate calling the musical episode a gimmick. It was fun, it explains itself, it follows its own rules, and it moves every plot on the ship forward.
August 3, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Star Trek Story With No High Road
A Klingon ambassador comes aboard the Enterprise, and M'Benga, Chapel and Ortegas have to sit at dinner with the war they never left. A much darker hour of Star Trek, and it's a good one.
July 27, 2023 →
5/10 Reviews Secret Invasion The Ending That May See Me Quit the MCU
Secret Invasion had six episodes, a great premise and more Nick Fury than we've ever gotten, and it still screwed the pooch on the ending. It's one more disappointment in a long line of them, and I'm hard-pressed to want to watch the next thing.
July 26, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Crossover Is Us Meeting Our Heroes
Boimler and Mariner fall out of a cartoon and onto Pike's Enterprise, and the Lower Decks crossover turns out to be the most reverential hour Strange New Worlds has made. A 10 out of 10, and it made me want to rewatch Enterprise.
July 24, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Uhura Works the Case Like an Auditory Sherlock Holmes
Season 2, episode 6 hands the hour to Ensign Uhura and lets her reason her way through a first contact nobody else can hear. A little messy in some bits, but the parts that hit, hit well.
July 20, 2023 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Canon Is a Rope, and Spock and Chapel Just Tied a Knot in It
Spock wakes up fully human the day before his Vulcan engagement dinner, and the hour turns into the best look at Vulcan and human culture in years. A respectable 7, and a kiss that doesn't break anything.
July 13, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Pike Goes Back to Rigel VII to Clean Up His Own Mess
Season 2, episode 4 sends Pike back to the planet from "The Cage," takes everybody's memory away, and lets Erica Ortegas remind the whole ship who flies it. Fun, campy, and writing between the lines of the original series.
July 6, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Episode That Finally Explains the Eugenics Wars
La'an gets thrown into a timeline where Kirk captains the Enterprise for the United Earth Fleet, then into present day Canada, and the show uses the trip to hand us the best explanation yet for why 1992 came and went without Khan.
June 29, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Secret Invasion Promises Feels More Like a Spy Thriller, and Nick Fury Has Layers
Last week felt like a Marvel version of a spy thriller. Promises feels more like the real thing, the de-aging aside, and it ends on a twist that tells you Nick Fury has been keeping more than state secrets.
June 28, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Courtroom Episode We Were Waiting For
The trial of Una Chin-Riley is a dry courtroom hour that plays like a heist, built out of original series design and a civil rights lawyer the galaxy already knows by name.
June 22, 2023 →
7/10 Reviews Secret Invasion A Solid Start That Plays It Too Safe
Resurrection sets the chess pieces for Marvel's spy series and brings in Olivia Colman to act the pants off a scene, but it feels like mid 90s Mission: Impossible when it should be shooting higher. And Maria Hill deserved better.
June 21, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Time-Honored Tradition of Stealing the Enterprise Starts Here
Pike leaves for three days, tells Spock not to break anything, and Spock steals the ship. The season 2 premiere brings back the Klingons, hands Carol Kane a character she can chew on, and points Spock straight at the man he has to become.
June 15, 2023 →
The Files Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Objectively Successful? The Record Says Yes
Good is a matter of opinion, so I'm taking it out. Viewership, critical reception, awards, money and representation: on paper, Star Trek: Discovery was a successful show, and I didn't even like the first two seasons.
May 24, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 James Gunn Made Me Believe Somebody Was Going to Die
A road review from the driver's seat. Three viewings in, the Rocket story still gets me, Drax becoming a dad came out of nowhere, and the High Evolutionary deserved more power. An 8 out of 10.
May 21, 2023 →
News Real Talk Where I've Been, and What's Next
Since the end of Star Trek: Picard Season 3 we've had to move out fast and my day job got liquidated. Here's the whole story, and what's coming to the channel next.
May 20, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 10 Review: The Last Generation Sticks the Landing, Even With a Button I Didn't Need
The Enterprise-D is the cavalry, the Borg are scarier than I thought they could get, and the finale sticks the landing. I didn't need the Enterprise-G rename and I didn't need Q. Season three is still perfect.
April 20, 2023 →
Reviews The Mandalorian Chapter 24, The Return, Gives You Everything You Wanted
The Mandalorian closes Season 3 with 35 minutes of jetpack war over Mandalore, a Moff Gideon plan that's worse than it looks, and an adoption that hit me right where I live.
April 19, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 9 Review: Vox Is Everything I Didn't Know I Wanted
Vox brings back the Borg, turns Starfleet into the collective, and puts the old crew back on the bridge of the Enterprise-D. I'm a mess, and it's a 10.
April 13, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews The Mandalorian The Spies Is the O.K. Corral, and the Bad Guys Are Winning
Chapter 23 puts Moff Gideon back on screen in beskar, drops Thrawn and Hux into a Shadow Council meeting, and finally gets this season moving. An 8.5 on the Know-It-All Index.
April 12, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 8 Review: Surrender Is Everything I've Wanted
Vadic takes the bridge, Data hands Lore every memory he's got, and the whole crew finally sits down at one conference table. Surrender came super close to blowing my socks off.
April 6, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Wars A Five-Minute Payoff at the End of a Side Quest
Guns for Hire gives you Lizzo, Jack Black, Christopher Lloyd and a droid bar, then crams Bo-Katan taking back the Darksaber into the last five minutes. I liked it, and that's what bothers me.
April 5, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 7 Review: Dominion Leaves the Titan on Its Own
Dominion gives us Captain Tuvok, Vadic's origin, a Picard darker than I've ever seen him, and Geordi finally saying the thing to Data. Mrs. Know-It-All joins me for a birthday review.
March 30, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Wars This Should Have Been Episode Three
Chapter 21: The Pirate finally moves The Mandalorian in the direction I thought we'd be going from the start. Nevarro gets bombed, the covert answers the call, and Bo-Katan takes her helmet off.
March 29, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 6 Review: The Bounty Is the Most Star Trek Episode You'll Ever See
Commodore Geordi La Forge is on deck, the Fleet Museum is a victory lap through Star Trek's history, and Brent Spiner comes back as something brand new. The Bounty fires on all thrusters.
March 23, 2023 →
7/10 Reviews Star Wars Grogu Starts Training, and the Episode Ends Too Soon
Chapter 20: The Foundling puts Grogu into Mandalorian combat training and sends Bo-Katan on a rescue that earns her a seat by the fire. It's a lot of fun, and at around 25 minutes it's too short.
March 22, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 5 Review: Imposters Brings Ro Laren Back and Hands Them the Titan
Imposters opens like a Star Trek movie, brings Ro Laren back for a conversation thirty years in the making, and turns the Titan into a ship on the run. Changelings can pass the blood test now, and nowhere's safe.
March 16, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews The Mandalorian The Convert Is a Bridge Episode That Stays Interesting
Chapter 19 parks Din Djarin and Bo-Katan for most of an hour to live a day on Coruscant with Dr. Pershing. It's a bridge episode, and I enjoyed it immensely anyway.
March 15, 2023 →
The Files Star Trek Why Q Died, Why Spock Left Vulcan, and Uhura's First Name
Five Star Trek questions pulled off the internet and answered: why an immortal Q dies in Picard, why Vulcan let Spock serve in Starfleet, where Nyota came from, whether Kirk was wrong about Lincoln, and why the Romulans traded away the cloak.
March 9, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 4 Review: No Win Scenario Gives Star Trek Its Competency Back
No Win Scenario puts a bridge crew in a room to workshop a problem, hands Picard the conn, and makes Captain Shaw the MVP. Star Trek's competency is back, and it's a solid 9.
March 9, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek Why the Romulans Traded Cloaking Tech for the D7 Class Design
The Romulans handed the Klingons the cloaking device for a few ships, and it looks like a terrible deal until you remember they were stuck at sublight. I wouldn't judge them too harshly for it.
March 9, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Wars Grogu Carries The Mines of Mandalore
Chapter 18 runs 44 minutes and doesn't feel like it. Grogu's personality is at its peak, Bo-Katan cuts up fools with the Darksaber, and there's a live mythosaur under the water. An 8.5 on the Know-It-All Index.
March 8, 2023 →
The Files Star Trek The Most Dangerous Species in Star Trek Is Us
Four Star Trek questions pulled from across the internet: the most dangerous alien species, why away teams don't carry personal shields, whether Klingons are really stronger than humans, and where Section 31 actually sits inside Starfleet.
March 7, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 3 Review: Seventeen Seconds Puts the Dominion on the Bingo Card
Seventeen Seconds plays cat and mouse in a nebula that isn't a nebula, hands the Titan to Riker, and confirms changelings are involved. Who called the Dominion? This guy.
March 2, 2023 →
Reviews The Mandalorian Chapter 17, The Apostate, and Not a Thing Wrong That I Could Find
Mrs. Know-It-All is back for The Mandalorian Season 3, and the premiere lays a foundation in about 35 minutes that gave us more than most of last season did. A 9 from him, a 9.5 from her.
March 1, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 2 Review: Disengage and the Worst Kept Secret in Fandom
Disengage has a captain with an attitude problem, a villain with a very big gun, and a reveal about Crusher's kid that got telegraphed from 100 miles away. Then Picard and Crusher look at each other, and I got hit by acting.
February 23, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek Mrs. Know-It-All Puts the Emperor in Charge of the Borg
I said the Borg would wipe out the Star Wars universe and that Order 66 nullified the Force. Mrs. Know-It-All saw the clip and came back with deflector shields, the Death Star, Palpatine, and a Borg theory I hadn't thought of.
February 21, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Quantumania Spoiler Review: The Ants Spent a Thousand Years Looking for Hank Pym
The spoiler recap and review. Janet's secret, Kang's engine, a tower of Scotts, Darren Cross as M.O.D.O.K., and a million ants who built an empire to rescue one man. An excellent MCU movie, and I stick by my eight.
February 19, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Quantumania Review: 48 Percent From the Critics, a Solid Eight From Me
Fresh out of the theater and spoiler free. The critics have Quantumania at 48 percent, the audience has it at 85, and I think the audience is closer. Jonathan Majors chews every scene he's in.
February 17, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews Ant-Man and the Wasp One Villain Too Many, and Still a Fun Romp
A look back at the 2018 sequel before Quantumania. It knows exactly where it sits after Civil War, it splits itself down two lanes with one antagonist too many, and fun still carries it past average.
February 16, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 3 Episode 1 Review: The Next Generation Comes Home
The Picard season three premiere is a warm, comfy blanket: Beverly with a phaser rifle, an old Enterprise-D combadge chirping in the dark, and a new captain on the Titan who's a jerk all day. An excellent start.
February 16, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Ant-Man A Heist Movie That Never Pretends to Be Anything Else
The week of Quantumania, a look back at the 2015 original: an expertly done heist film with a superhero movie laid over the top, a de-aged Michael Douglas that holds up, and Michael Peña stealing every scene he's in.
February 15, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who The Moment Eccleston's Doctor Becomes the Doctor Fully
Mrs. Know-It-All had never seen the Christopher Eccleston series, so we fixed that. Episode six puts the last Time Lord in a room with the last Dalek, and neither of them walks out the same.
February 5, 2023 →
Reviews DC Universe James Gunn Already Showed Us His Resume
Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All on the James Gunn and Peter Safran era at DC Studios: why the hire makes sense, what the 10-year plan could build to, what the CW got right, and why the state of the DC Universe is good.
February 4, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek Why the Borg Want the Klingons and Wouldn't Touch the Kazon
Six Star Trek questions pulled off the internet and answered: the Borg and the Kazon, what the rest of the crew is doing, the Kelvin timeline against the Mirror Universe, Star Trek Beyond, Bread and Circuses, and how Troi made commander.
January 31, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews The Last of Us A Slow Burn on Purpose, and It Had Us Sobbing on the Sofa
The Last of Us is a show based on a game, and it's no joke. Episode 1 makes you invest in Sarah before it takes her away, and that's the whole reason the rest of it works.
January 17, 2023 →
The Files Star Trek Why the Transporter Isn't a Med Bay and Why Shuttlecraft Keep Getting Stolen
Seven of the internet's Star Trek questions, answered. The Ferengi Alliance, transporter cloning, Spock and the Kolinahr, Data as a doctor, the Bird-of-Prey in the bay, The Perfect Mate, and those shuttlecraft.
January 13, 2023 →
7/10 Reviews Willow I'd Like a Little More Willow in the Willow Show
The Willow finale, Children of the Wyrm, is ridiculous all day, and I enjoyed the ride anyway. A Val Kilmer cameo I needed, Willow's grand entrance, and a 7 out of 10.
January 11, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Quantumania Trailer 2 Reaction: An Ant-Man Movie Built Like an Avengers-Level Threat
The second Quantumania trailer puts Scott Lang in a room with Kang, and it doesn't look like the kind of Ant-Man movie we've gotten. A solid 8 on the Know-It-All Index.
January 10, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who I Was Wrong to Tell People to Skip Season One
World War Three lands the two-parter that Aliens of London started, with farting aliens, a jar of pickled onions and a fire sale on planet Earth. Mrs. Know-It-All and I both had a great time.
January 10, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek Star Trek Questions on Transwarp, the Hundred Changelings and Majel Barrett
Six Star Trek questions pulled from Quora, Reddit and the comment section. Episode counts, where transwarp went, why we only ever met two of the hundred Changelings, every part Majel Barrett played, the swearing, and whether Data was ever Starfleet's property.
January 10, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Willow A Good Episode After Two Bad Ones, and I'm Mad About It
Beyond the Shattered Sea is the penultimate episode of Willow, and it's good enough to make me angry about the two before it. A begrudging 8.5 on the Know-It-All Index.
January 4, 2023 →
7.5/10 Reviews Doctor Who Rubber Suits, Forehead Zippers and a Cast That Commits
Aliens of London is about as campy as Doctor Who gets, with rubber suit monsters, our first look at UNIT and Harriet Jones. Mrs. Know-It-All and I talk through part one of the two-parter.
January 1, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Supernova Review: The Season 1 Finale Went Way Off the Mark and Came All the Way Home
I held last week's show so I could talk about Supernova Parts 1 and 2 together. The cavalry shows up, Hologram Janeway lies in true Starfleet fashion, and a Nickelodeon series punches me in the gut.
December 29, 2022 →
6/10 Reviews Willow Prisoners of Skellin Is Better Than Last Week, but Not by Much
There was no Willow review last week because Episode 5 was a bridge episode and it was bad. Episode 6 is better, but with two episodes left the show is about an episode behind where its story should be.
December 28, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who First Christmas, Part 11: A Warning
An original Doctor Who audio story. Herod finds the Time Lord he locked up leaning in his doorway, and learns how the Time War ended, before the Doctor gives him one warning about the child.
December 25, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who They Perfect Light
Amy runs from a mob through Bethlehem, Rory picks up her trail with the shepherds, and the Doctor finds out the star the three wise men are following is the TARDIS.
December 25, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who The First Noel
Amy runs from a mob straight into a stable in Bethlehem, Rory turns up with shepherds, and the Doctor rides in on a camel with two priests and a gift. Part 13 of First Christmas.
December 25, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who First Christmas, Part 14: Loose Ends
The Doctor holds the newborn in the stable, hears something only he can understand, and tells Amy and Rory who the child really is. The final chapter of my Doctor Who Christmas story.
December 25, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who First Christmas, Part 8: Watching Over Their Flocks By Night
Part 8 of First Christmas, the Doctor Who Christmas story. Rory wakes up in a flock of sheep, meets four shepherds who don't much care for Romans, and looks up to find a light in the sky that's brighter than the moon.
December 25, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who First Christmas, Part 9: We Three Kings
Part 9 of First Christmas, a Doctor Who Christmas story by Mr. Know-It-All. Three priests wait on King Herod, and Balthazar finds a drawing of a man he just saw down the hall.
December 25, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Doctor Who A Christmas Episode the Way Die Hard Is a Christmas Movie
Charles Dickens, a funeral parlor in Cardiff in 1869, and the first real look at what the Time War cost somebody else. Mrs. Know-It-All and I rewatch Series 1, Episode 3, and we don't land on the same number.
December 18, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Episode 18 Review: Mindwalk Puts Dal in Admiral Janeway's Body
Mindwalk is the body swap episode, a classic Star Trek trope, and Prodigy handles it in a way that's both original and very, very Star Trek. Dal wakes up as Vice Admiral Janeway, and the warp bubble math is something I'd never seen before.
December 15, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Willow The Whispers of Nockmaar Is Member Berries Done Right
Willow Episode 4 walks its heroes into Bavmorda's abandoned castle and lets the ghosts of the 1988 movie do the exposition. It should have been Episode 3, and it's still a solid 9.
December 14, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who Psychic Paper, Lady Cassandra, and a Doctor Fresh Out of the Time War
Mrs. Know-It-All has never seen the first season of the 2005 reboot, so we're watching it together. Episode 2 takes Rose five billion years out to watch the Earth burn, and it holds up better than I remembered.
December 11, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Season 1 Episode 17 Review: Ghost in the Machine Traps the Kids in the Holodeck
Prodigy takes its turn at the classic trapped-in-the-holodeck episode, and uses it to show you who these kids are when they're off the clock. Hologram Janeway turns on them, and I have one complaint about how.
December 8, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Episode 15 Review: Masquerade Takes Star Trek Outside the Federation
Masquerade drops the Protostar crew into the Romulan Neutral Zone, where nobody shares Starfleet's fear of genetic augmentation. Dal finds out what he is, Asencia shows what she is, and Admiral Jellico is back.
December 8, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Preludes Review: The Bottle Episode That Turned on a Dime
Episode 16 looked like a regular bottle episode, and I'm not a fan of those. Then Janeway did the math, stormed into the wrong room, and the whole thing turned.
December 8, 2022 →
The Files Doctor Who The Know-It-All Files
Somebody asked what happens if the Doctor goes up against Freddy Krueger or Michael Myers, so I wrote both episodes out loud. Plus what's wrong with the Doctor, the Jenny show I want, and the woman Doctor question again.
December 7, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Willow A Fun RPG Fight and a Storyteller I Can't Trust
The Battle of the Slaughtered Lamb has a pitched fight in the rain I'm all the way down for, and a Boorman reveal that makes me question the writing. A 7 on the Know-It-All Index.
December 7, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who Mrs. Know-It-All Meets Christopher Eccleston's Doctor for the First Time
Mrs. Know-It-All had never seen the first season of the 2005 Doctor Who, so we went back to episode one. Bad CGI, a hot mess of a mom, a vial of anti-plastic, and a quieter Doctor than I remembered.
December 4, 2022 →
The Files Doctor Who An American Doctor, the Doctor's Wife, and Whether Q Survives the Time War
Eight Doctor Who questions, answered. Yes, an American could play the Doctor, and I know exactly how you'd do it. Plus River Song, Russell T Davies, the Q Continuum and why the TARDIS keeps redecorating.
December 2, 2022 →
Reviews Willow The Muffin Girl Was Elora Danan All Along
Two episodes in, the Disney Plus Willow series bans magic, hides Elora Danan even from herself, and finds its focus once Willow's dream turns out to be a death sentence. A 7.5 for the first episode and an 8 for the second.
December 1, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Willow It's Harder to Sell Magic Than a Laser Sword
Before the new Disney+ series, a very special Know-It-All Files on the original 1988 film: who the Nelwyn are, who Willow Ufgood is, how the story runs, and why a very good movie took years to find its audience.
November 30, 2022 →
The Files Star Trek Denobulans, the Borg vs. Species 10-C, and Whether Gravity Affects Warp
Five Star Trek questions pulled from Quora and Reddit. Where the Denobulans went, what the Borg would do with Species 10-C, whether Adam Soong caused the Eugenics Wars, whether you need the original series, and what gravity does to warp drive.
November 29, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Andor Rix Road Sets One Town on Fire for One Man
Everybody in the galaxy lands on Ferrix at the same time, Maarva gives the speech of the season from 50 feet in the air, and the post-credit scene proves Mrs. Know-It-All right. A 10 from both of us.
November 23, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who Why the Doctor Can't Go Back for Amy and Rory, and Seven More Doctor Who Questions
Eight Doctor Who questions pulled from Quora and Reddit, answered in one sitting: Amy and Rory, Russell T Davies coming back, a Harlan Ellison episode, the first Black Doctor, and why the Doctor ran from Captain Jack.
November 23, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek Three Janeways, a Holographic Replicator and Why Utopia Is Star Trek
Five Star Trek questions pulled from Quora and Reddit. Captain, hologram and Admiral Janeway, whether a portable holo-emitter could build a working replicator, utopian storytelling, a Seven of Nine show, and my last opening night.
November 22, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Episode 14 Review: Crossroads Is the Payoff
Crossroads finally puts Dal face to face with the real Admiral Janeway, brings back the Outrageous Okona, and feels more connected to Star Trek than anything Prodigy has done so far.
November 17, 2022 →
The Files Star Trek The Borg Only Need to Assimilate One Star Destroyer
The entire Star Trek universe against the entire Star Wars canon universe. I'm not even going to talk about the Federation. The Borg assimilate one Star Destroyer and it's over.
November 17, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Andor Daughter of Ferrix Puts Every Storyline on a Collision Course
Maarva is gone, the Empire wants a funeral it can box in, and the Rebellion finally shows us what it costs. A setup episode that doesn't feel like one.
November 16, 2022 →
The Files Star Trek The Universal Translator, the Kelvin Timeline and Whether Lore Was Lying
Seven Star Trek questions pulled from Quora and Reddit, answered. How everybody understands each other, why I came around on Janeway, who is to blame for the Kelvin timeline, and what happened to the warp 5 speed limit.
November 15, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Episode 13 Review: All the World's a Stage Asks Who's Really Faking It
The Protostar crew answers a distress signal and finds a planet of people calling themselves Starflight. The whole episode is Dal asking whether his crew is faking it the same way, and it's a solid one.
November 11, 2022 →
Reviews Andor One Way Out Earns the Second 10 I've Given an Episode
Four episodes of Andor in one sitting: Announcement, Narkina 5, Nobody's Listening and One Way Out. A prison built on 5,000 men and a handful of guards, and the hour where they finally do the math.
November 9, 2022 →
Reviews Doctor Who Russell T Davies' Master Plan, and Why I'm Not Scared of the Mouse
Doctor Who is moving to Disney+ in the United States, and I'm not taking it the way everybody else is. Russell T Davies said out loud in 2021 that he wanted an empire, and he's the one guy who can build it.
November 2, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Doctor Who I Wish This Level of Writing Had Gone Into Everything
The Power of the Doctor hit on all cylinders for me, the companion support group was a chef's kiss, and then David Tennant walked out of that regeneration. Here's my theory on how Donna gets us to Ncuti Gatwa.
October 28, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 3 Finale Review: The Stars at Night and the One Time Ejecting the Warp Core Works
The California class gets put on trial, an admiral turns out to be dirty, and Shaxs finally gets to eject the warp core. My co-host and I liked this one a lot.
October 27, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy Prodigy Episode 11 Review: Asylum Turns a Starfleet Welcome Into a Trap
The Protostar crew finally reaches a Starfleet base, gets welcomed with open arms, and the ship they flew in on turns the whole station against them. A 7 out of context, an 8 if you've seen the first ten.
October 27, 2022 →
Reviews Star Wars Give Me Lightsaber-Wielding Space Wizards
Mrs. Know-It-All and I sit down and take stock of Star Wars in 2022: the prequels, the beautiful mess of the sequel trilogy, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, and why the Disney Plus shows have us both voting good.
October 21, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Episode 309 Review: Trusted Sources Sends Mariner to Starbase 80
A reporter comes aboard the Cerritos, the captain tries to hide everything, and the one officer who said something good about the ship is the one who gets shipped out. An 8 on the Know-It-All Index.
October 20, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Andor The Eye Is the Heist We Wanted, and the First 10 This Show Has Earned
The Aldhani heist finally goes off, Cassian becomes the man we met in Rogue One, and a 45 minute episode plays like a movie. Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All both land on the same number.
October 14, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Attorney at Law Episode 9 Review: A Scooby-Doo Ending and Marvel's First Major Fail for Me
The She-Hulk finale breaks the fourth wall all the way into the Marvel Studios writers room, then resolves its whole story off screen. Mrs. Know-It-All and I score the episode and the season.
October 14, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Episode 307 Review: Peanut Hamper Is the Worst, and She Got the Whole Episode
A Mathematically Perfect Redemption leaves the Cerritos behind and follows Peanut Hamper to a planet of bird people, a wedding and a con. It's a weird one, and it still works.
October 6, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Ribbit and Rip It Is What I Wanted the Entire Time
Daredevil shows up, Jen finally gets to be a lawyer and a superhero in the same half hour, and She-Hulk delivers the episode it should've delivered weeks ago. An 8 out of 10, under protest.
October 6, 2022 →
Reviews Andor The Axe Forgets Is a Setup Episode, and a Good One
The Axe Forgets is the night before the heist. Everyone has their own rebellion, Cassian admits he's being paid, and the only fear in our house is that the heist gets chopped in half.
October 5, 2022 →
6/10 Reviews She-Hulk: Attorney at Law The Retreat Is the Show This Should Have Been Since Episode 3
The Retreat is the perfect version of what She-Hulk could be, and it shows up in episode seven with two half hours left to wrap everything. A 6 out of 10 from both Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All.
September 30, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Episode 306 Review: Hear All, Trust Nothing Goes Back to Deep Space Nine
The Cerritos docks at Deep Space Nine, Kira and Quark come back with their original voices, Tendi remembers she was raised by pirates, and Mariner solves a room full of panic attacks with a phaser.
September 29, 2022 →
6/10 Reviews Andor Aldhani Starts a Second Movie and Stops Before It Gets Going
The first three episodes of Andor were a movie. Aldhani is the opening of the next one, a Star Wars heist film with a Mon Mothma story running beside it, and it ends so abruptly it cost the episode points.
September 28, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: Room for Growth, Reflections, and Bold Boimler on the Rise
Two episodes in one sitting. Room for Growth sends the lower deckers through the guts of the ship for a room on deck one, and Reflections gives Rutherford's implant a story and lets Boimler flip a table.
September 22, 2022 →
4/10 Reviews She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Just Jen Is a Legal Comedy With No Court Case in It
Episode 6 sends Jen Walters to a wedding to get dumped on, settles its one legal story in a conference room, and then drops a superhero button it never earned.
September 22, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Andor Three Episodes That Add Up to the First Act of a Movie
Disney Plus dropped the first three episodes of Andor on the same day, and you needed all three. Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All on a two-hour origin story for Cassian Andor that feels like Rogue One and plays like a spy thriller.
September 21, 2022 →
Reviews She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Attorney at Law Episodes 4 and 5 Review: Great Cast, Too Many Open Lanes
A double-sized issue on Is This Not Real Magic? and Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans. The performances are stellar, the CGI finally shows up, and the story still hasn't picked a lane.
September 16, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: Mining the Mind's Mines and the Sister Ship Switch That Doesn't Add Up
The Cerritos gets laughed at by its own sister ship for a whole episode, and then the show wants you to believe they were fans the entire time. My co-host and I both land on the same number.
September 8, 2022 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Review: Bold Boimler Says Yes to Being Hunted in The Least Dangerous Game
Season 3, Episode 2 opens on Klingon Dungeons and Dragons, sends Mariner skydiving off a space elevator, and lets Boimler agree to be hunted through the Cerritos. A fun one that does its job.
September 1, 2022 →
6/10 Reviews She-Hulk: Attorney at Law A Court Case at Last, and Jen Is Floundering
The People vs. Emil Blonsky finally puts She-Hulk in a courtroom, but the story is dragging Jennifer Walters along behind it, and you can see where the episode was cut and reassembled.
September 1, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Lower Decks Season 3 Episode 1 Review: Grounded Puts Boimler on a Raisin Vineyard
Grounded picks up with Captain Freeman arrested for bombing the Pakled homeworld, then spends its time on Earth: a raisin vineyard, Sisko's, Ketracel White hot sauce and a Zefram Cochrane theme park.
August 27, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Attorney at Law Episode 2 Review: A Fun Tether Episode That's Over Too Fast
Superhuman Law gets Jen Walters fired, rehired and handed the Abomination as a client, all in under half an hour. Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All both land on the same number.
August 25, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Super Hero Review: Orange Piccolo, a Brand New Gohan, and 3D That's Hit or Miss
Seen in IMAX with my good buddy Brandon. The story gets everybody back in the fight, the transformations are dope, and the new 3D animation is perfect in the fights and stiff when people stand still.
August 21, 2022 →
News Star Trek Picard's Enterprises, Lower Decks and a Strange New Worlds Crossover
I watched the whole Star Trek panel out of San Diego Comic Con. The Next Generation cast is back for Picard season three, Lower Decks is crashing Strange New Worlds, and three more Star Trek shows are in development.
July 28, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Balance of Terror With Pike in the Chair
The season 1 finale drops Pike seven years into a future where he dodges the accident, puts him in the captain's chair for Balance of Terror, and shows him what it costs Spock. Kirk showed up, too. I called it.
July 7, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Our Very First Star Trek 10 Out of 10
Episode 9 is a straight horror story with the Gorn, it costs the Enterprise its chief engineer and its chief of security in one hour, and I didn't bump into a single thing I'd change.
June 30, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Magic Entity Episode, Done Right
The Enterprise turns into a bedtime story and only two people aboard know it. A fun fantasy romp with one of the most powerful endings of the season, and one thing I wish it had shown me sooner.
June 23, 2022 →
Reviews Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi Part 6 Review: Two Old Fighters Clubbing Each Other in the Street
The finale gives you the Obi-Wan and Vader duel you wanted, an origin for Uncle Owen's limp, and a Reva who can't go through with it. Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All on Part 6, and on where the Path could go next.
June 22, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Space Pirates, Amok Time and the Glory of Star Trek V
Mrs. Know-It-All joins me for Trek Talk Tuesday. We break down The Serene Squall and Captain Angel, I make her watch Amok Time and Star Trek V, and the comment section corrects me on Long John Silver.
June 22, 2022 →
Reviews Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi Part IV Review: The Jailbreak Episode, and a Leia With Nothing Left to Learn
Part IV is the Star Wars jailbreak episode, with Obi-Wan on the sneak and Vader raw as can be. It's also a ten-year-old Leia who's already as capable as she is at 19. Mister and Mrs. Know-It-All, two scores.
June 20, 2022 →
Reviews Star Wars The Obi-Wan We Know Starts His Climb Back
Part Five is so much better than last week's episode, and it still doesn't feel like the one before a finale. Mr. and Mrs. Know-It-All on Reva's real target, Obi-Wan taking charge, and how this thing ends.
June 20, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Episode Where Strange New Worlds Found Its Voice
Pike meets an old flame, a child volunteers to carry a whole planet's suffering, and Mrs. Know-It-All has feelings about it. I couldn't find a flaw in this one.
June 18, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Pirates Are Gonna Pirate, and Sybok Is Coming
A humanitarian run to the edge of Federation space turns into a pirate takeover, a fake doctor turns out to be the captain, and the ransom is a name out of Star Trek V. A fun hour, a traditional one, and a 7.
June 17, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Episode Where the Show Found Its Own Voice
Pike's past walks onto the Enterprise, a holy child gets plugged into a machine, and Star Trek asks whether a whole society's prosperity is worth one kid's suffering. The first hour where Strange New Worlds really stepped into its own.
June 9, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds 'Spock Amok' Review: The Body Swap a Lesser Show Would Have Milked
Mrs. Know-It-All joins Trek Talk Tuesdays for Spock Amok. The body swap stays secondary, the costumes go up a level, your comments get read live, and we go frame by frame on next week's trailer.
June 9, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Wars We Got Everything We Wanted, Just Not the Way I Wanted It
Part 3 finally gives us Darth Vader versus Obi-Wan Kenobi, with James Earl Jones sounding like he never missed a beat. The fight itself is lackluster, and I think that's because it's the first of a couple.
June 1, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Hemmer Earned His Moment, La'an Got Hers Too Quick
Trek Talk Tuesday with Mrs. Know-It-All on the submarine episode: La'an's abrupt shift, Hemmer's top marks for Uhura, the comments, the Spock Amok trailer, and a call about Kirk in the chair.
May 31, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Ghosts of Illyria, La'an's Khan Problem and the Gorn on the Way
Your comments on Ghosts of Illyria, worked through one at a time: two kinds of Illyrians, the shuttlecraft nobody thought of, whether tying La'an to Khan makes Star Trek smaller, and the Memento Mori trailer.
May 28, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Wars The Return of the Jedi and a Shocking Reveal
Parts I and II of Obi-Wan Kenobi turn out to be a ten-year-old Leia story, they answer a question about A New Hope I never thought to ask, and they end with Obi-Wan learning Anakin is alive. Mrs. Know-It-All joins me for the first time.
May 27, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Gorn Set a Trap and Pike Trusted His Ship
The Gorn finally show up, and they never say a word. Episode 4 is a cat and mouse game in a gas cloud, a second straight La'an hour, and one torpedo that got some lazy writing.
May 26, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Number One Is Not Who You Think She Is
A contagion that travels on light takes the Enterprise crew down one by one, and the only person left standing is the one hiding the biggest secret on the ship. A really good hour, and one dummy away from a 9.
May 19, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek I Never Saw the Khan Twist Coming, and It's Still Somebody's First Khan
Trek Talk Tuesdays, two topics. Strange New Worlds is doing character episodes the way early Next Generation did, and the trailer for episode three looks like The Naked Time. Then the anniversary of Star Trek Into Darkness, and why I rolled with a twist I begged the movie not to make.
May 17, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Best of Classic Trek Returns
Episode 2 hands the hour to a cadet who isn't sure she belongs in Starfleet, parks a temple on a comet, and ends on something science can't explain. That's the original series, and I enjoyed the heck out of it.
May 12, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Discovery Season 1 Review: I Was Part of the Crowd Poo-Pooing It
I trashed Star Trek: Discovery sight unseen, then watched season 1 when it was over. With four seasons to look back from, here's where it lands now, by way of Picard season 2 and the Strange New Worlds premiere.
May 10, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Review: I Loved It, and Nothing New Can Take My Star Trek Away
Star Trek: Picard season two is over and I've heard a lot of hate about it. I enjoyed it immensely. Here's where I think the series is going, what turning him into Robo Picard cost, and why everybody onboards somewhere.
May 10, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds I Think We're Getting the Gorn
The series premiere gave me chills the second Pike said the words, and the season trailer that ran after it has me calling my shots: the Gorn this year, and Kirk in the chair down the road.
May 10, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Finale Review: They Landed This Particular Bird
I've been worried about how Picard season two was going to land. The finale has rough parts and one very contrived piece of plot, and it still gives Q and Picard the goodbye that thirty years of history earned.
May 5, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Finally, the Trek We Deserve
The pilot puts Pike back in the chair with ten years on the clock, shows a planet its own future, and lets three officers sit in a room and debate. It's episodic Star Trek, and I've missed it.
May 5, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Moon Knight Jake Lockley, the Scarlet Scarab and an Egyptian Kaiju Fight
Episode 6 packs Ammit's release, Layla's wings, Marc and Steven finally working as one, and the Jake Lockley reveal into one short, action-packed hour. They stuck the landing.
May 4, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 1 Review: We Finally Found Out What Came Next
The Next Generation was my Star Trek, and Nemesis was how we went out. Picard season one is contrived in places and I liked it anyway, from the card game with Data to an ending that wrapped things up a little too neatly.
May 3, 2022 →
Reviews Halo Master Chief Lets the Countdown Hit Zero
Solace isn't as action-packed as last week, and it doesn't need to be. John locks Halsey in a decontamination chamber to find out what Cortana can really do to him, Halsey loses the Spartan program, and the hour ends on the ring.
April 28, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 9 Review: The Borg Queen Changes Tactics, and It's Only Logical
Hide and Seek puts Picard's childhood memories in order, shows what really happened to his mother, and has Jurati talk the Borg Queen out of conquering. Brisk, cohesive, and much better than last week.
April 28, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Moon Knight Wendy's Abuse, the Birth of Steven Grant, and the Episode People Are Going to Sleep On
Asylum sends Marc and Steven through the Duat and through every memory Marc has been hiding. In any other context this is a full-on mental health family drama, and Oscar Isaac is doing phenomenal work in it.
April 27, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Halo Reckoning Brings Master Chief's Fury to a Boil
Master Chief gets his origin story back, Halsey proves how dirty she is, and the Covenant shows up for the best fight since the premiere. The first 10 out of 10 on the Know-It-All Index.
April 22, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard 'Mercy' Review: A Good Episode That Can't Find Its Speed
Mercy isn't a bad episode of Star Trek: Picard, but it has trouble finding its speed. Q is fading, Jurati is drinking car batteries, an FBI agent meets his Vulcans, and the last five minutes give you whiplash.
April 21, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Moon Knight The Tomb Goes Full Indiana Jones, Then Kills Its Lead
Episode 4 is a relic hunt through Ammit's tomb that ends with Marc and Steven shot dead and waking up in a psych ward. Not much action, a lot of character, and an 8 out of 10.
April 20, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Halo Homecoming Has Three Plots and I'm Hooked on All of Them
John digs up proof that his memories are real, Kai cuts out her pellet and puts pink in her hair, and Kwan finds out what's left of Madrigal. Episode 4 of Halo is a 9 out of 10.
April 15, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 7 Review: Picard's Darkest Secret and the Truth About His Mother
Monsters sends Tallinn into Picard's subconscious to wake him from a coma, and what she finds there is the full memory the season has been flashing back to. A classic Next Generation move, a little neat and a little quick, and I still liked it.
April 14, 2022 →
Reviews Halo Emergence Hands John a Partner Built From a Flash Clone
Episode 3 of Halo is the one where we get Cortana, and the show builds her out of a flash clone of Halsey. John cuts out his own pellet, Makee walks through a massacre, and the storytelling stays strong.
April 7, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Episode 6 Review: Two of One Runs the Europa Heist and Puts Picard Under Soong's Car
Jonathan Frakes directs a flashback hour at the Europa gala. The Borg Queen takes the wheel, Picard talks Renée off the ledge, and Dr. Soong's daughter finds out what she is.
April 7, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Moon Knight Steven Summons the Suit, and It's the Wrong One
Summon the Suit hands Steven a storage locker, a wife he's never met and a war between gods, then lets him call up a suit Marc can't stand. A 9 out of 10 on the Know-It-All Index.
April 6, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Halo Unbound Lays the Groundwork, and Chief Should've Kept the Helmet On
Halo Season 1 Episode 2 goes light on action and heavy on story: a Spartan who ran, a Covenant that needs humans, and Halsey putting Cortana on the table. The helmet is the one complaint.
April 1, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 5 Review: "Fly Me to the Moon" Puts the Season Back on Track
Q finds a new target in Dr. Adam Soong, Jurati pays for her deal with the Borg Queen, and Jonathan Frakes directs the hour that gets this season moving again after last week's mess.
March 31, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Moon Knight The Goldfish Problem and the End of the Poor Man's Batman
I walked in thinking Moon Knight was a poor man's Batman. One episode, one goldfish with too many fins, and Oscar Isaac shifting gears in a bathroom full of mirrors changed that.
March 30, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Halo A Good Opening, and a Helmet That Came Off Too Soon
I've never played the games, so I'm taking the Halo premiere clean, as a sci-fi series and nothing else. The action is right, the in-helmet shot is right, the compositing isn't, and Master Chief's face shows up about three episodes early.
March 24, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 4 Review: Watcher Lets the B Plot Take Over
Watcher is a balancing act between Picard hunting for Guinan and a stolen police car tearing through Los Angeles, and the car chase wins. My least favorite episode of the season so far.
March 24, 2022 →
Reviews The Batman Batman Asks the Joker to Profile the Riddler
The Arkham scene cut from The Batman. Batman brings a serial killer's file to a man behind glass, and that man would rather talk about Batman.
March 24, 2022 →
Reviews Spawn Questions, Todd McFarlane's First Complete Story
Todd McFarlane wasn't looking to just spin a monthly comic yarn. Here's the whole of Questions, Spawn issues one through four, from the deal with the devil to the heart getting ripped out of his chest.
March 20, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 3 Review: Agnes Hacks the Borg Queen, and Elnor Doesn't Make It
Assimilation moves so fast it felt like a 30 minute episode. Elnor dies, the Borg Queen takes the ship through a slingshot around the sun, and Agnes Jurati steals from the Queen's own head. Plus my problem with how Star Trek looks at Los Angeles.
March 17, 2022 →
7.5/10 Reviews Turning Red Pixar Made a Safe Movie, and Disney+ Is the Right Place for It
The technique is the best Pixar has ever put on screen and the puberty story is dead on. The style, the supernatural through line and the story itself are where Turning Red comes up short.
March 14, 2022 →
Reviews Cyberforce Everybody at Image Had an Answer to Wolverine
Thirty years of Image Comics, and we're going back to Cyberforce #1, The Tin Men of War part one of four. Ripclaw, Cyblade, Impact: everyone on this team is a response to something else happening in comics, and the story does eventually outgrow it.
March 10, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 2 Review: Penance and the Timeline Q Broke
Penance drops Picard into the year 2400 of a timeline Q has changed, with Romulan slaves in the house and skulls in the trophy room. It's rough for Star Trek, and I liked it a lot.
March 10, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Picard Picard Season 2 Episode 1 Review: The Borg, Q, and a Bold New Voyage
A former Starfleet fan club commander on the Picard season 2 premiere: a Borg Queen who stuns instead of kills, a mission briefing straight out of The Next Generation, and John de Lancie back as Q.
March 3, 2022 →
Reviews Spawn Spawn Has His Heart Ripped Out in Questions Part 3
Thirty years of Image Comics, straight from my pull list. Spawn #3 is the one where he finds Wanda, finds out she's moved on, and gets his heart pulled out of his chest by the Violator.
February 21, 2022 →
Reviews WildC.A.T.s The Jim Lee Book That Launched Homage Studios
Thirty years of Image Comics continues with WildC.A.T.s #1 from August of 1992: Jim Lee, a time-hopping first issue, the Daemonite Cabal, and a strip club explosion that the whole book is built around.
February 14, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Wars Boba Fett Rides the Rancor and Grogu Saves the Day
Chapter 7, In the Name of Honor, is sixty minutes of everything we wanted this show to be: a rancor in a kaiju fight, Cad Bane in the street, and Grogu choosing to go home to dad.
February 9, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Wars Luke Skywalker, Grogu and Ahsoka Tano Steal the Show
Chapter 6 of The Book of Boba Fett is barely a Boba Fett episode. It's a love letter to Star Wars fans and, in my opinion, a backdoor pilot for a Luke Skywalker Jedi temple series, and they proved they can pull it off.
February 2, 2022 →
Reviews Image Comics The Book That Got Me Into Image Comics
The Image Comics 30th anniversary pull list reaches July of 1992, when exactly one Image book came out. It was Erik Larsen's The Savage Dragon #1, and it's the reason I started collecting all of them.
January 31, 2022 →
Reviews Youngblood Rob Liefeld Loved Him Some Pinups
The Image Comics 30th anniversary read-through hits June 1992 and Youngblood #2: a book dedicated to Jack Kirby, the debut of Prophet, and a hero pose in every single panel.
January 24, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews The Book of Boba Fett Alliances Form and the Mandalorian Theory
Chapter 4 gets Boba his ship back, closes out the flashbacks, and ends on a music cue that has me convinced Din Djarin shows up next week. Consistent storytelling, if weak storytelling.
January 19, 2022 →
Reviews Spawn The First Image Book That Had Something to Say
For the 30th anniversary of Image Comics, Mr. Know-It-All rereads Todd McFarlane's Spawn #1 from May of 1992. It was called a poor man's Batman at the time, and the artwork carried a story that turns out to be not bad at all.
January 14, 2022 →
9/10 Reviews The Book of Boba Fett Rancors, Pykes, and the Mos Espa Gang War
Chapter 3 hands Boba Fett a rancor, a Wookiee who whoops him in spectacular fashion, and a dozen Pykes stepping off a starliner. It's the turn this show needed, and it's a 9 out of 10.
January 12, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews The Book of Boba Fett The Tribes of Tatooine Finally Makes the Tusken Raiders People
Chapter 2 confirms the two-timeline structure, stages a full Western train heist in the desert, and gives the Tusken Raiders a weight and depth Star Wars never bothered to give them. An 8 out of 10, and the reason I've come around on this show.
January 5, 2022 →
Reviews Image Comics The First Image Comic Is a Roll Call With Two Front Covers
Image Comics turns 30 in April, so I went back to the very first book with the imprint on it. Rob Liefeld's Youngblood #1 is flashy, there's no substance here, and it tells you everything about where comics were in April of 1992.
January 5, 2022 →
6/10 Reviews The Book of Boba Fett How Boba Fett Survived the Sarlacc
Chapter 1 opens inside the belly of the Sarlacc and finally answers the oldest question about Boba Fett. Then it slows way down, and I'm okay with that.
December 29, 2021 →
Reviews The Batman The Bat and the Cat Changed My Mind
I didn't like the first trailer for The Batman. The second one, The Bat and the Cat, looks like it came right out of the comic books, and Zoë Kravitz's Catwoman is a big part of why.
December 27, 2021 →
6/10 Reviews The Matrix Resurrections Better Than the Other Sequels, and It Still Didn't Break Any Ground
The Matrix Resurrections is a love story wrapped in nostalgia on a level I've never really experienced. I think it beats the other sequels, and I still skip everything until they get Neo out.
December 27, 2021 →
The Files Santa Claus Why Saint Nick Is More Powerful Than Superman
People say one man can't deliver presents to the whole world in one night, and no normal man could. There's nothing normal about Santa Claus. Nine powers on record, counted down from omniscience to immortality.
December 23, 2021 →
Reviews Spider-Man: No Way Home No Way Home Review: The Trailers Only Showed You the First Act
A spoiler-free read on Spider-Man: No Way Home. Everything in the trailers comes from roughly the first 40 minutes of a 2 hour and 28 minute movie, and what Sony and Kevin Feige do with the rest stitches every earlier Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
December 18, 2021 →
8/10 Reviews Hawkeye Ronin, Yelena and the Kingpin Reveal
Episode 5 shows the blip from the point of view of the person getting blipped, puts Clint back in the Ronin suit, and finally says the thing about Maya's boss. It's an 8 out of 10.
December 16, 2021 →
7/10 Reviews The Wheel of Time Blood Calls Blood and the Grief Lan Can't Express
Blood Calls Blood spends its hour on a warder most viewers just met, and people online want to know why. The answer is Lan, and a funeral scene that got me where I live.
December 6, 2021 →
Reviews Hawkeye Why Echoes Is a Game Changer
Episode 3 lifts its car chase almost straight out of Hawkeye issue 3 from 2012, gives Maya Lopez a real origin story, and lets you hear a laugh that sounds a whole lot like Kingpin.
December 2, 2021 →
Reviews The Wheel of Time The Thing I Was Worried About Is the Thing They're Not Doing
A book reader's first look at the opening episodes of The Wheel of Time on Amazon. The pacing works, the changes aren't slamming into me, and my wife fell in love with it from episode one without ever reading a page.
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