Anna Govert

Disney Plus’ What If…? is the MCU at its worst and least interesting, with all the streaming problems and no creative probing of the universe’s choices

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For the past three years, Critical Role and Prime Video’s animated triumph The Legend of Vox Machina has done it all: brought viewers to tears, elicited the most outrageous laughs, and defied all adaptational expectations to deliver a tale that is…

Since the debut of WandaVision in 2021, Disney+’s Marvel television experiment has been chasing that same high. Unfortunately for them, each subsequent series has failed in increasingly worse ways to capture that lightning-in-a-bottle show’s magic,…

Wynonna Earp might have one of recent television’s most tumultuous histories. Originally airing on SYFY, the series was a bona fide hit and a queer classic for three seasons before running into trouble ahead of production on Season 4. At the time,…

9.2 Photo Courtesy of Hulu TV Reviews Hulu 1 In this day and age, it feels like nothing short of a miracle to get a new season of a show every single year. Somehow, Hulu has managed to do just that with two of their biggest hits: the unshakable The…

5.2 Photo Courtesy of Disney+ TV Reviews Disney Plus As a child of the 2000s, there is nothing that I love more than a good, old-fashioned Disney Channel Original Movie. Originally reserved for Halloween-time installments, the entries into the…

8.0 Last year, Adult Swim’s My Adventures with Superman was an unexpected treat. Offering a new take on the (admittedly overdone) Man of Steel and boasting some adorable anime-inspired animation to boot, the series thrived through its cute central…

8.5 Forget ice cold lemonade, you know what’s really the most refreshing treat for a hot summer day? A juicy, campy, dramatic, bloody teen drama, and thankfully, Max’s Pretty Little Liars delivers all that and more in its Summer School sequel.…

Since seemingly the dawn of time, humans have had a particular fascination with how we destroy one another. And as the years have gone on, that fascination has only grown stronger as we gain easier access to these gruesome tales. From millions…

There is something just so utterly delightful about watching a series that isn’t afraid to be soapy. And Apple TV+’s Palm Royale, which revels in both its surprising twists and shocking weirdness, is not afraid of anything, it seems. Unlike its Apple…

We’ve been a little spoiled by television mysteries lately. From the prestigious (True Detective: Night Country) to the soapy (Death and Other Details) to the case-of-the-week procedural (Wild Cards), there has been no shortage of smart and engaging…

6.5 Out of every MCU project to hit our screens within the past three years since the advent of Disney+ and the seeming downfall of the spotless reputation this expanded universe once held, Echo might be the most disappointing. Spinning out from…

7.0 The consultant procedural is a subgenre of which we have been desperately lacking within the TV sphere. From Richard Castle to Lucifer Morningstar, the most fun TV detectives haven’t truly been detectives at all, but rather those special…

7.0 For a show that started as a MeToo-inspired statement piece about the sexual harassment and abuse of power that is all too common in the entertainment industry (and acted as a play on the real-life Today Show scandal), the persistent thought I…

7.6 Unless you have been living under a rock for the past year, then you’re likely familiar with Netflix’s queer hit Heartstopper. Hailed as an LGBTQ+ show for the ages, with wholesome love between two high school boys bolstered by their charmingly…

7.8 Photo Courtesy of Adult Swim TV Reviews My Adventures with Superman It would be an understatement to say that Superman has been adapted to death. He has been the subject of numerous live-action movies (from the original Christopher Reeves films…

8.4 When the premise was first announced for Peacock’s dark comedy thriller Based on a True Story, you might have thought: “That sounds a lot like Only Murders in the Building.” And, on the surface, you wouldn’t be wrong—how many shows can really be…

5.1 In the second grade, I was so obsessed with the 1978 movie musical Grease that I dressed up like a Pink Lady for Halloween. I remember walking into my elementary school with my tiny pink jacket on my shoulders and cat-eye sunglasses on top of my…

8.5 Travel back in time with me: it’s 2017 and teen TV is better than ever. Pretty Little Liars, The Vampire Diaries, and Teen Wolf are all building up to their epic conclusions to come later that year, but not before a January mid-season premiere on…