TV drama reviews
Drama & TV The Studio Films a Movie Lover Losing to the Business Each Episode, and the Long-Take Form Is Why It Cuts
VISION — Long-Take Comedy as a Structural Bet
While watching The Studio I kept losing track of where I was inside an epi...
Drama & TV Rooster (Steve Carell): The Comedy That Quietly Cuts
There is a sequence in Rooster — roughly midway through the first season — where the protagonist attends a party at a fo...
Drama & TV Esa Noche: What Are We Choosing Not to See?
Esa Noche is a Spanish-language drama that uses a single evening — a dinner party in a comfortable urban apartment, the ...
Drama & TV Paradise (Hulu): The Lie Beneath the Quiet
Paradise opens with a society that functions. The streets are clean. Citizens cooperate. There is no apparent poverty, n...
Drama & TV Star Trek: Starfleet Academy — Hope and Slight Betrayal
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy arrives carrying two burdens simultaneously: the weight of one of science fiction's most be...
Drama & TV Reboot: Ryohei Suzuki’s Body Tells the Story — Sunday Drama Reaches a New Level
Ryohei Suzuki is running. His breath has become ragged; sweat tracks down his face; the legs that are carrying him throu...
Drama & TV Saikai ~Silent Truth~ Finale: Ryusei Takeuchi Has Learned to Act in Silence
In the final ten minutes of Saikai ~Silent Truth~, Ryusei Takeuchi didn't speak a single word. More precisely, he didn't...