TV reviews
Culture Editor Murjani Rawls reviews the latest TV shows.
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‘Yellowjackets’ S2E9 review: Is it better to fade out than to go out in a blaze of glory?
"Storytelling" deals with finality and a torch pass, but the questions of decision made are starting to take up a lot of room.
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‘Yellowjackets’ S2E8 review: The hunger, the horrors, and the choices to be made
"It Chooses," the penultimate episode of season two foreshadows tough decisions to be made and tragedy to be had.
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‘McGregor Forever’ walks the line between redemption story and crossroads parallel
The Netflix four-part documentary catches up with the UFC star in 2018 as he moves through wins, losses, and personal change.
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‘Yellowjackets’ S2E7 review: Anger is the emergency exit
The Yellowjackets survivors have to deal with trauma through therapy and a little bit of fisticuffs.
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‘Yellowjackets’ S2E6: The wilderness will recognize what you sacrificed
In ‘Qui," Shauna’s baby is on the way with some hard realizations and the adults finally come together.
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While we all wait for episode six, here’s DraftKings Nation’s ‘Yellowjackets’ Halftime spectacular
As the popular Showtime show takes a week off, we ponder on some burning questions going into the second half of the season.
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‘Yellowjackets’ S2E5 review: Sometimes you bring things back with you beyond explanation
As adult Taissa and Van hash things out, more mysteries about her shadow continue and Natalie makes a frightful discovery.
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‘Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always’ review: Dust off the morphers and megazords
The 30th anniversary special holds monikers for classic fans while striving to honor those that are no longer here.
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Yellowjackets’ S2E4 review: A hunting competition between that’s more so a faith and rationality face off
The battle lines are drawn between team Lottie and Natalie while adult Lottie’s scarcity is becoming more pronounced by the day.
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‘Yellowjackets’ S2E3 review: It’s time to celebrate the impending bundle of joy wilderness style
Coming off the feast of last week, the survivors get ready for a baby shower. While there are more questions about the symbol.
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‘Beef’ review: Steven Yeun and Ali Wong make an instance of road rage into a topical feat of good jousting
Mid-life crisis, generational trauma, sexism, and classic all stem from one car argument in Netflix’s new entertaining series.
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‘Yellowjackets’ S2E2 review: An offering from the woods handed to you on a silver platter
If you’ve been waiting for that moment, Yellowjackets delivers it, then some, and revelations along the way.
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Yellowjackets season 2 premiere review: With winter comes desperate times, measures, and hunger
The season premiere of the second Yellowjackets season sees more predicaments in the present while things get frigid in the past.
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‘Swarm’ review: When being the biggest fan in the room can beget a deadly path of tunnel vision
The horror comedy series from co-creators Donald Glover and Janine Nabers looks at toxic fandom through the eyes of one of the devoted.
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‘The Last of Us’ episode 9 review: You should always have a choice
Joel and Ellie reach their final destination, but decisions are made that make the waters between them murky.
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Netflix’s MH370 documentary opts for conspiracy theories to fill in for the scarcity of answers
The three-part Netflix documentary gives three theories as to why the Malaysian airliners could have disappeared, but is better served focusing on those grieving the passengers.
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‘The Last of Us’ episode 8 review: What a cold, cruel world this has become
The penultimate episode shows Ellie at the brink of her emotional and physical wits and how scary the TLOU world is as a whole.
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‘The Last of Us’ episode 7 review: Two best friends, two separate paths, and one last night
"Left Behind" gets a look a formulate relationship in Ellie’s past and is the most game-identical episode to this point.
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‘The Last of Us’ episode 6 review: When does the protected become the protector?
The physical and mental ramifications of TLOU's past start to confront Joel and Ellie with a return from Tommy.
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‘The Last of Us’ episode 5 review: Between right and wrong, there lies a shade of gray
We shift perspectives briefly with two new characters as Kathleen’s rage draws closer.
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‘The Last of Us’ Episode 4 review: Vengeance, sweet vengeance
"Please Hold My Hand" dives more into the Joel and Ellie relationship and a resistance group can make their travels more difficult.
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‘The Last of Us’ episode 3 review: a touching love story as the world crumbles
This episode deviates from the game to give us a great LGBTQ+ love story
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‘The Last of Us’ Episode 2 review: Let’s get acquainted with the infected
Joel, Tess, and Ellie go out into the Boston landscape and find out how dangerous things really are.
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‘The Last of Us’ Premiere Review: A loss, apocalypse, and hope
The first episode shows us the before and after of the Cordyceps infection and a possible way out.
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‘This Place Rules’ gives a viewpoint to the many facets of America’s disinformation problem
Director and gonzo journalist Andrew Callaghan shows the many ways conspiracy theories fester
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‘Call Me Miss Cleo’ documentary straddles the line between a sympathetic hand and soft critique
The HBO Max documentary details the popular late 1990’s psychic scam, but won’t go as far to say it definitively