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Drew Koenig

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 1, Episode 7 (2022) 4.75/5 EDIT “A masterclass in highly enjoyable shenanigans that we’ve come to expect from this series. ” – Tell-Tale TV Jun 21, 2022 Full Review Evil: Season 3 (2022) 100% 4.25/5 EDIT “Evil, since its start, has always been an intriguing blend of frightening and weird, something that has only grown since switching from CBS proper to Paramount+. That shows no sign of slowing down here.” – Tell-Tale TV Jun 14, 2022 Full Review Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 1, Episode 6 (2022) 4.5/5 EDIT “Star Trek, on its best days, has served as a mirror to our modern society and shown us the ways in which we still have a long way to go. This episode continues that grand tradition in a way that might hit too close to home for some people.” – Tell-Tale TV Jun 13, 2022 Full Review Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 1, Episode 5 (2022) 4.25/5 EDIT “Even within Star Trek, it’s bold at this point to have an episode that is so distinctly silly but never for a moment strays into being a filler episode. This is merely a show that has a finely tuned sense of fun.” – Tell-Tale TV Jun 6, 2022 Full Review Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 1, Episode 4 (2022) 3.75/5 EDIT “In truth, it isn’t a huge problem that Strange New Worlds is harkening back to the earlier stuff. You just don’t want it to be symptomatic of something greater when the show at large is so nostalgic.” – Tell-Tale TV May 31, 2022 Full Review Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 1, Episode 2 (2022) 3.5/5 EDIT “It has begun spectacularly and if the precedence is any indicator, it will only rise with more episodes under its belt. Frankly, that’s an incredibly encouraging prospect to consider. ” – Tell-Tale TV May 17, 2022 Full Review Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 1, Episode 1 (2022) 4.5/5 EDIT “With Strange New Worlds, at least based on this first episode and a general impression of what is to come, we get a series that is episodic and Star Trek in its purest form.” – Tell-Tale TV May 6, 2022 Full Review Halo: Season 1, Episode 4 (2022) 2.75/5 EDIT “Halo Season 1 Episode 4, “Homecoming,” dives more into Master Chief’s history but doesn’t manage to really say very much. ” – Tell-Tale TV Apr 18, 2022 Full Review Halo: Season 1, Episode 2 (2022) 3.25/5 EDIT “The rebellions are something that would be really easy to gloss over but Halo is taking time to really put a fine point on that. Frankly, there are many ways to address just how abhorrent the UNSC is. ” – Tell-Tale TV Apr 4, 2022 Full Review Halo: Season 1, Episode 1 (2022) 3.25/5 EDIT “To its credit, Halo isn’t making easy or safe choices. Even something as simple as the episode punctuating Halsey being Miranda’s mother, which is a deep cut that some longtime fans aren’t even aware of.” – Tell-Tale TV Mar 29, 2022 Full Review Snowpiercer: Season 3 (2022) 3.5/5 EDIT “The show needs to stay steady in its plotting and character development, which isn't to say that we received on either of those fronts isn't interesting.” – Tell-Tale TV Jan 26, 2022 Full Review DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 7, Episode 7 (2021) 3.5/5 EDIT “It's passable but it doesn't feel in any way inspired like a lot of other episodes of Legends of Tomorrow have.” – Tell-Tale TV Nov 28, 2021 Full Review DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 7 (2021) 4/5 EDIT “That undoubtedly makes for fun television but it's harder to see right off the bat the kind of season that we're in store for. It is, in some ways, a soft reboot for the series.” – Tell-Tale TV Oct 15, 2021 Full Review La Brea: Season 1 (2021) 29% 2.25/5 EDIT “The thing that the writers can't seem to tell is that what they've created isn't Lost. It has much more in common with something like Terra Nova.” – Tell-Tale TV Sep 30, 2021 Full Review DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 6 (2021) 100% 4/5 EDIT “We're pushing off into strange, new directions. That is an accomplishment in and of itself.” – Tell-Tale TV May 4, 2021 Full Review Debris: Season 1 (2021) 74% 3.25/5 EDIT “It's not completely impressive, but it's also not the disaster that one could easily imagine a show like this being.” – Tell-Tale TV Mar 4, 2021 Full Review The Sister: Season 1 (2020) 63% 3.25/5 EDIT “For the most part, these first two episodes work fairly well if you're willing to accept that this is a world that has a different relationship with logic than we do.” – Tell-Tale TV Jan 27, 2021 Full Review The Mandalorian: Season 2, Episode 8 (2020) 4.75/5 EDIT “Out of all of the big swings that this second season has made, this outclasses them all and is a flex that is just downright impressive in its ambition.” – Tell-Tale TV Dec 21, 2020 Full Review The Mandalorian: Season 2, Episode 7 (2020) 4.25/5 EDIT “The way that this all crescendos into what the lengths you're willing to go to compromise versus how well you're able to sleep after feels really well-considered.” – Tell-Tale TV Dec 14, 2020 Full Review The Mandalorian: Season 2, Episode 6 (2020) 4.5/5 EDIT “It takes the character and bluntly illustrates why he has been seen as a captivating and menacing force throughout the movies.” – Tell-Tale TV Dec 7, 2020 Full Review The Mandalorian: Season 2, Episode 5 (2020) 4.25/5 EDIT “While all of this is doubtlessly exciting and exhilarating for the fans, it also becomes a thing where people that haven't watched both of the animated shows might start to feel a bit left behind.” – Tell-Tale TV Nov 30, 2020 Full Review The Mandalorian: Season 2, Episode 4 (2020) 3.75/5 EDIT “The action is all good and it flows really well but never did this feel like an episode that needed to involve Mando, which is good for Star Wars overall, but less so for The Mandalorian itself.” – Tell-Tale TV Nov 23, 2020 Full Review The Mandalorian: Season 2, Episode 3 (2020) 4.75/5 EDIT “This is the episode that, if you're familiar with the larger Star Wars universe, is a must-watch episode.” – Tell-Tale TV Nov 16, 2020 Full Review The Mandalorian: Season 2, Episode 2 (2020) 3.75/5 EDIT “This is a show that, for better or worse, wants to tell these smaller, self-contained stories of adventure. It's a modest but very attainable goal that the show has set for itself.” – Tell-Tale TV Nov 9, 2020 Full Review The Mandalorian: Season 2, Episode 1 (2020) 4.25/5 EDIT “This season premiere feels like it knows precisely what it is and what it wants to do. It's very evident now that this is a show that is doing its own thing with little regard for the rest of the larger Star Wars oeuvre.” – Tell-Tale TV Nov 2, 2020 Full Review
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