DC Reviews
DC Reviews
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
8.5/10 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 →
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 →
8.5/10 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 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 →
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 →