Television Review: The Haunting of Hill House
When I sat down to watch The Haunting of Hill House, a Netflix original series, I felt confident I would love it. Shirley Jackson’s novel is my favorite haunted house story. It was faithfully adapted […]
Category Archives: Television Review
Westworld: “The Bicameral Mind”
For me the common denominator is story, mainly fictional story, but often true life or inspired by real events story. Story is a catch-all phase that includes plot, characterization, setting, theme, and other elements of […]
Westworld: “The Well-Tempered Clavier”
Back in October, when I started writing episode reviews of HBO’s Westworld, I warned readers that it was an experiment. Even then it was an experiment I intended to succeed rather than failed. Perhaps calling […]
Television Review: The Magicians
Let’s see if this premise sounds familiar. There’s a secret school where magic is taught. A boy, long feeling an outsider in the real world, learns he has magical powers. He learns of this school […]
Television Review: The OA
The OA, a new series from Netflix, is an enigma. After watching its eight episodes, I find myself more curious about it than prior to watching. I definitely have more question. Before watching it, the […]
Westworld: “Trace Decay”
Stories have beginnings, middles, and ends, I told you the last Westworld post. In “Trace Decay,” the eighth episode, we have reached the end of the middle. We had reached that point where all storylines […]
Westworld: “Trompe L’Oeil”
Stories have beginnings, middles, and ends. There’s nothing profound in this statement. And I confess a lack of originality in it. Every book on fiction writing tells us this, and many books of literary critique […]
Westworld: “The Adversary”
Episode 6 of HBO’s Westworld, “The Adversary,” feels like a line between two dots that need to be connected in order to complete the picture. Following the big revelations and dramatic turning points of “Contrapasso,” […]
Westworld: Contrapasso
If episode 4 was about subtle conflict and inner revelations, episode 5, “Contrapasso,” turned to violent conflict and major revelations. This was an episode of big changes for several characters—Dolores, Maeve, William, and others. Elsie, […]
Westworld: Dissonance Theory
For the first time since reviewing HBO’s Westworld, I found myself uncertain what to write about an episode, episode 4, “Dissonance Theory.” For the first time, I felt I needed to rewatch the show before […]
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