Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
Our Take This one splits the Dinobots off into their own story and it’s a decent hook, even if the animation is as sloppy as the era gets. The idea of Cybertronian technology breaking down gives the episode real stakes,…
Our Take A goofy mid-season romp where the Constructicons dismantle New York and Optimus gets turned into a crocodile-shaped war machine, which is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds. The plot logic falls apart if you poke it even once,…
Our Take A surprisingly character-driven hour that gives Red Alert his moment in the spotlight, and his paranoia storyline mostly works thanks to some genuinely uneasy moments. The plot logic gets shaky in the back half and the action is…
Our Take Middle of the road. Watchable, but you’ll forget the details by next episode.
Our Take Megatron finally finds a scheme with some teeth: frame the Autobots as villains and get the humans to boot them off Earth. It’s a fun setup, though the human villain Shawn Berger is so smug and gullible it…
Our Take Middle of the road. Watchable, but you’ll forget the details by next episode.
Our Take A pretty standard monster-of-the-week outing where the Insecticons eat everything in sight and get too big for the Decepticons to handle. The endless eating scenes get repetitive fast, though watching Megatron lose control of his own allies has…
Our Take A middling episode that leans on the old “villains trick the good guys” setup, with Grapple’s ego doing most of the heavy lifting. The Constructicons’ con is fun in spots, but the middle sags with repetitive construction scenes…
Our Take This one’s a fun high-concept hour where the Autobots shrink down and take a trip inside Megatron, and it leans hard into the absurdity, including a genuinely funny drunk Megatron scene. The animation is about as shaky as…
Our Take A decent Megatron scheme episode where the Autobots get turned against humanity, which at least gives Optimus a reason to fight his own team for a change. The action moves along fine but the plot resolves too easily…