Reviews
Read what the community thinks about their favorite albums
Review of Where the Light Goes
Where the Light Goes · Matchbox Twenty
Spoiler While it features stand out tracks such as "Wild Dogs(which strikes such a particular upbeat, poppy emotive chord) or "where the light goes," this album remains committed to a specific sound of nostal...
A Perennial Classic
Violator · Depeche Mode
It's been 36 years since the debut of Depeche Mode's "Violator," and it remains as relevant as ever. Representing a tremendous shift in sound and songwriting, there's little left so say about the 1990...
Sticks the landing
Man Seeking Woman - Season 3
Man Seeking Woman season three is the final season and a logical place to stop for the show. I thought it was a planned final season but the show was canceled but given how it ends I assume they were...
A fun and fascinating book
Lovecraft Country
If you are expecting a purely Lovecraftian story then this isn't for you. This feels like a blend of pulp action, historical fiction and magical fantasy all filtered through the lens of black people s...
A little better each time
Man Seeking Woman - Season 2
Most good shows use their first season to discover what works and what doesn’t. The second season more experimentation but more focused. The writers and actors remix what works, fix what can be fixed...
Blander than CBS
Deception Point
Packed with all the thrills, sex, espionage, and government intrigue of a CBS made for TV film. Something uncomplicated, to a fault, designed carefully not to offend anyone who could sit through 90 mi...
Misadventures in Dating
Man Seeking Woman - Season 1
Man Seeking Woman is a comedy series shown on FXX and FX. It is about a recently single man named Josh who is trying to date again. His best friend Mike, a wild party boy who is always down for a good...
Review of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Spoiler “The Lord giveth and the 20mm taketh away. Killing is our business and business is good.” Nick Turse offers one of the most raw and devastating examinations of the Vietnam War, which makes it unsurpri...
An Exercise in Expectation Management
Fallout - Season 2
Coming off the heels of a surprisingly successful season one, Fallout set its sights on the Mojave. A surprising but exciting development in the show, spending time in New Vegas was a seemingly ambiti...
A technical manual with few embelishments
In Death Ground
Based in the Starfire* universe this novel details a conflict between an alliance of the standard, and unimaginative, aliens (A cat species, a bird species…etc…) and humanity vs aliens that are analog...
Exists to establish the average
IT
I am not going to lie after watching the pilot of 'Welcome to Derry' I remembered that I owned this audio book. I needed something to listen to while I was on the road and so this was as good a choice...
I guess they do still make thrillers like they used to
Crime 101
Let me tell you about a movie. Its a Neo-noire crime thriller. A heist film. A professional criminal with a personal code is chased around Los Angeles taking heist after heist. A determined and unpopu...
A step back to go forward
The Wire - Season 2
The second season of the Wire is not as good as the first season, but it is just as important. The entire run of the show could be understood as an American epic, each season is a book and each episod...
Pleasant and Uninteresting
portals//polarities · Night Tapes
Like listening to muzak in a dream K-Mart but you're underwater. It's perfectly pleasant and one or two tracks like "swordsman" and "babygirl(like no1 else) show promise, but overall the album feels p...
The Weeknd's Most Experimental Album
Dawn FM · The Weeknd
My personal favorite of the Weeknd's albums to date, Dawn FM simultaneously captures a feeling like listening to the radio once upon a time on a softly lit, sunny afternoon on some forgotten weekend w...
An introduction to the game
The Wire - Season 1
Let me echo what you've heard before: Yes. The Wire is that good. It is my humble opinion the Wire is the best TV show, start to finish, ever. Bold take. I know. We aren't here to discuss the entire s...
Onward and Upward
The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place · Explosions in the Sky
Earth is Not a Cold Dead place fill the unnamed space between satisfaction and relief emotions that replaced happiness as you get older. This is the first step into maturity, as a band, for Explosions...
HIstorial Non-Fiction done right
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
"...exposed the secret history of the Reign of Terror: the evil of Hale was not an anomaly." I was gifted this book back on 2023 for Christmas and I am little embarrassed to say that it took me this l...
So much wasted potential
Bad Times at the El Royale
This is one of those movies I actually sought out in the spring of 2020. I was working mostly from home and wanted to work through all the fascinating films that I missed in theaters. I struggled to f...
Same notes; new songs
Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever · Explosions in the Sky
With a name like ‘Explosions in the Sky’ you might assume that more bombastic and concussive beats and less restraint, maybe something you can run or lift weights to. This is not that band and they se...
A bold first album
How Strange, Innocence · Explosions in the Sky
Released in early 2000, 26 years ago, Explosions in the Sky released their genre defining album. It wasn't until almost 5 years later, in a dorm room, that I discovered them. I was using Kazaa to sear...
An excellent example of American Crime fiction
City on Fire
Don Winslow didn't hit a homerun but doubled, in the bottom of the 9th to even the score. Forgive my tortured metaphor, I am excited for baseball to return. City On Fire is a hit, exciting and sad in...
Cadavers embracing new life
Eon of Obscenity · Stabbing
From the very first EP in 2021, I knew there was something special about Texas-based, female-fronted brutal death metal wagon Stabbing. In just 11 minutes, Ravenous Psychotic Onslaught was exactly wha...
Peak
Stranger Things - Stranger Things 5
Peak show. Action scenes are dope, Hollys an amazing character addition ( fit too <3) and it just generally slaps. Production is off the charts too. Absolute cinema
