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Honest reviews. Zero hype.
Our Take A rushed but satisfying sendoff for a show that deserved better. The final battle between Optimus and Megatron lands with real weight, and Prowl’s sacrifice earns its emotional beat, though the season’s cramped ordering means several plot threads…
Our Take This is the setup half of the finale, and it mostly feels like it, spending a lot of runtime getting pieces in place before the real payoff arrives next episode. Still, the action beats land hard and Prowl…
Our Take Middle of the road. Watchable, but you’ll forget the details by next episode.
Our Take A prison break episode that mostly runs on momentum, and honestly that’s fine. The Decepticons running loose on a cramped ship gives the action a nice sense of claustrophobia, though some of the guard-side subplots feel like filler.…
Our Take The virtual reality premise pays off better here than in part one, with some genuinely fun robot-versus-robot fights once the mind games wrap up. Soundwave makes for a creepy villain even if his plan gets resolved a bit…
Our Take A strange Christmas-set detour that strands Sari in a fake suburban life while the Autobots play house in the background. The uncanny-wrongness vibe works better than expected, and Sari’s confusion carries the quieter stretches, though the pacing drags…
Our Take Middle of the road. Watchable, but you’ll forget the details by next episode.
Our Take A solid Prowl spotlight that finally digs into his ninja training through flashbacks with Master Yoketron, and the mentor-student stuff lands better than expected. The fight choreography is genuinely fun, and Lockdown makes for a great foil. It…
Our Take This one leans hard on Bumblebee and Wasp’s history, and the identity-swap chaos that follows is funnier than it has any right to be. The comedy bits land, but the episode also gives Wasp a genuinely sad arc…
Our Take This one’s a mostly comedic sidestep that leans hard on the Constructicons and their endless hunt for oil, and your mileage depends entirely on how funny you find dim-witted robot rednecks. The gags land often enough to keep…