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Alan Scherstuhl

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Alan Scherstuhl is film editor at the Village Voice. He also covers books, music, and other matters for the Voice, in addition to writing Studies in Crap, his ongoing humor column about bizarre books and ephemera found at junkshops. He is on Twitter at @studiesincrap.

Reviews

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Match Game: Season 1 (2016) 82% EDIT “Alec Baldwin is no Steve Harvey. Unlike Harvey, Baldwin seems diminished on the set of a retro '70s game show dedicated to getting contestants to say gently dirty nonsense.” – New Times May 24, 2019 Full Review The Terror: Season 1 (2018) 94% EDIT “The series never bests Simmons's book, but it is powerfully, pleasurably harrowing in its own right.” – Village Voice Mar 27, 2018 Full Review The Alienist: Season 1 (2018) 68% EDIT “The actual characters here benefit from being embodied by good actors, though the roles are thin.” – Village Voice Mar 9, 2018 Full Review Marvel's Runaways: Season 1 (2017) 85% EDIT “The producers have this talented cast - and these first-rate characters - running in place, not running away.” – Village Voice Nov 15, 2017 Full Review Fire Chasers: Season 1 (2017) 100% EDIT “Between their visions of conflagration, the filmmakers capably track the stories of Cal Fire and Los Angeles County Fire trainees and veterans.” – Village Voice Sep 8, 2017 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 3 (2017) 96% EDIT “Rick and Morty has maintained its prickly balance: wild invention, cosmic cock-ups, extreme gore, grounded characters, an interest in therapy and its insights, and an unflinching - even compassionate - fascination with human cruelty.” – Village Voice Aug 15, 2017 Full Review Marvel's The Defenders: Season 1 (2017) 78% EDIT “The Defenders invites you to shake off the specifics of its heroes' personal mopeyness and just roll with all the ka-powing and car-chucking.” – Village Voice Aug 15, 2017 Full Review Castlevania: Season 1 (2017) 83% EDIT “Brief, entrancing, [and] wickedly bloody.” – Village Voice Aug 8, 2017 Full Review Comrade Detective: Season 1 (2017) 85% EDIT “The jokes are more prickling than hilarious, though I do cherish the recurring gag of the extras -- street vendors and security guards -- being given the dopiest lines, voiced by the weakest actors.” – Village Voice Aug 7, 2017 Full Review Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1 (2017) 94% EDIT “As the return of Twin Peaks surges on after a promising but troubled start, I have to credit it with this: It's the rare screen entertainment that allows us to contemplate faces that have aged in real time.” – Village Voice May 22, 2017 Full Review Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return: Season 1 (2017) 100% EDIT “The premise has been lightly updated with just the right amount of winking hustle.” – Village Voice Apr 11, 2017 Full Review Big Little Lies: Season 1 (2017) 93% EDIT “Kelley continually pens revelatory scenes for his actresses, who wring them for all the pain and truth they're worth.” – Village Voice Mar 24, 2017 Full Review Riverdale: Season 1 (2017) 88% EDIT “It's glossy and funny, appealingly acted, and has too many good qualities to write it off, including rumpled 90210 charmer Luke Perry as Archie's dad.” – Village Voice Jan 24, 2017 Full Review The OA: Season 1 (2016) 76% EDIT “It's often courageous in its demands upon our empathy, and the series always seems like it's just one revelation away from not just coherence but transcendence.” – Village Voice Dec 29, 2016 Full Review Incorporated: Season 1 (2016) 72% EDIT “Every time I felt certain I could pay less attention, check my email while letting an episode play out, I'd be struck by some new detail, pungent or wondrous.” – L.A. Weekly Dec 12, 2016 Full Review Search Party: Season 1 (2016) 100% EDIT “Best of all, the series grows more somber and dramatic as it races along, with Dory discovering not just exciting clues but hard truths about herself and her relationships.” – Village Voice Nov 29, 2016 Full Review Marvel's Luke Cage: Season 1 (2016) 90% EDIT “The show, at its best, plays more like one of those crime novels than a Marvel property.” – Village Voice Sep 29, 2016 Full Review Atlanta: Season 1 (2016) 98% EDIT “To show all that he can do, to show something of what life's actually like, Donald Glover first has to break your heart.” – Village Voice Sep 13, 2016 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 1 (2016) 97% EDIT “By its end, after eight episodes, Stranger Things becomes darker and more frightening than its opening suggests. It's also somewhat hopeful.” – Village Voice Jul 28, 2016 Full Review BrainDead: Season 1 (2016) 65% EDIT “After four episodes, I think it's safe to say that, with BrainDead, Robert and Michelle King have made a JibJab, albeit a splattery, invigorating one, appealingly acted and witty in its horror and romantic elements.” – Village Voice Jul 14, 2016 Full Review Lady Dynamite: Season 1 (2016) 95% EDIT “Lady Dynamite plays something like that Netflix season of Arrested Development: Here's a character you might love, but adrift in unrewarding circumstances.” – Village Voice May 18, 2016 Full Review Top of the Lake: Season 1 (2013) 95% EDIT “Jane Campion's smart, bracing, hugely enjoyable mystery rural noir ...” – Village Voice Sep 13, 2013 Full Review
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