Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The best JoJo bonus content ever made. Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe follows Diamond is Unbreakable’s pompous manga artist into four self-contained horror shorts, and the result plays like The Twilight Zone drawn by Hirohiko Araki. Rohan travels, researches, and inevitably…
The most anticipated JoJo adaptation in years earns the hype. Steel Ball Run takes the franchise to 1890s America for a cross-continent horse race, and David Production renders Hirohiko Araki’s wildest part with the biggest budget the series has ever…
David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) and producer J.J. Abrams drop a suburban family into the age of dinosaurs, and the result is the summer’s best straight-ahead survival ride. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor sell the Platt family so well that…
Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle gets the Special Presentation treatment: a lean, brutal feature-length story that follows his escape from Fisk’s prison in the Born Again post-credits scene. One night, one mission, and the most unfiltered version of the Punisher Marvel…
The best short from Star Wars: Visions gets expanded into its own series. A thousand years after the sequel trilogy, the galaxy has forgotten the Jedi, and a sabersmith’s daughter carries freshly forged lightsabers to a ruler who wants to…
An animated anthology from the Marvel corner that nobody saw coming: across four episodes, different Wakandan War Dogs retrieve stolen vibranium artifacts from three continents and two wars, spanning the 1200s to the Age of Pirates to the days of…
Courtney Whitmore finds a cosmic staff in her stepfather’s basement and learns the Justice Society of America is not history, it is homework. Brec Bassinger’s brightness powers the whole show: this is a teen superhero story played with total sincerity,…
Before he was Batman’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth was an SAS veteran starting a security firm in a swinging-sixties London that is one bad week away from civil war. Jack Bannon plays him as a young Michael Caine, and the show…
Two hundred years before the cape: Seg-El, Superman’s grandfather, is a disgraced teen in a caste-rigid city where the House of El has been stripped of its name. Adam Strange travels back in time to make sure the cape still…
Matt Ryan is John Constantine. That is the review, but the show earns more words: a chain-smoking Liverpudlian exorcist doing battle with demons while carrying the guilt of a soul he failed to save, played with such perfect casting that…