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Neal Pollack

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Neal Pollack is the editor-in-chief of Book and Film Globe, the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, and a three-time Jeopardy! champion. His memoir Pothead will be published in the summer of 2020. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.

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History of the World: Part II: Season 1 (2023) 75% 4/5 EDIT “To all the people out there hating on History of the World, Part 2, and I see you, you’re just plain-bagel wrong. History of the World Part 2 is hilarious, even if t’s not perfect.” – Book & Film Globe Mar 10, 2023 Full Review Foundation: Season 1 (2021) 72% 2/5 EDIT “A forced, utterly humorless march into sci-fi history.” – Book & Film Globe Oct 4, 2021 Full Review Dear White People: Season 1 (2017) 95% EDIT “Its satirical impulses end up in the backseat, or the trunk, in favor of dull soap-opera elements.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Friends From College: Season 1 (2017) 26% EDIT “Karamo [Brown] provides the emotional trigger for the first season's two most profound moments, which is saying a lot because the new Queer Eye is definitely a three-hanky weeper throughout.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Search Party: Season 2 (2017) 96% EDIT “Search Party contains exactly the right balance of self-awareness and empathy for its characters. Every time they dig a hole, literally and figuratively, it feels earned, not forced.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Crown: Season 2 (2017) 89% EDIT “With Season 2, the flower is still golden, but the bloom has fallen off. The great saga of the end of Sir Winston has been replaced with kitchen-sink boredom about historical nonentities like Anthony Eden and Harold MacMillan.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Grand Tour: Season 2 (2017) 57% EDIT “Despite some tinkering at the margins, the formula continues to be compulsively watchable. If you liked it then, you'll like it now.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Disjointed: Season 1 (2017) 19% EDIT “If Disjointed would just have the courage to throw off the sitcom shackles, it could be a really important show.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review 13 Reasons Why: Season 1 (2017) 77% EDIT “As the season ends, 13 Reasons Why takes a sharp ambulance turn toward corniness and cheese.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman: Season 1 (2018) 81% EDIT “The opening episode, featuring Barack Obama, was so mind-numbingly dull that I fell asleep on my living room floor in the middle.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Follow This: Season 1 (2018) EDIT “The show feels of-the-moment without being particularly hip. Oh no, I sort of found it interesting.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Last Kingdom: Season 3 (2018) 100% EDIT “Occasionally, an episode flags, but then there will be an exciting swordfight in a nunnery, and you'll find yourself thinking "Why can't every TV show be like this?"” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Final Table: Season 1 (2018) 38% EDIT “A pretentious display of global overconsumption, the show is filled with self-regard to the point of absurdity.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Kominsky Method: Season 1 (2018) 80% EDIT “The Kominsky Method gives us hope and laughter.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review BH90210: Season 1 (2019) 69% EDIT “The premise has a chance to be disastrous, but it succeeds on pretty much every level.” – Decider Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Press Your Luck: Season 1 (2019) EDIT “Press Your Luck has suddenly morphed from a nasty, cheap little show where people get their ass kicked by a cartoon monster into a Queen For A Day knockoff where people get their asses kicked by a cartoon monster.” – Book & Film Globe Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Awake: The Million Dollar Game: Season 1 (2019) 67% EDIT “It's a horrifying and disgusting spectacle.” – Book & Film Globe Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Spin the Wheel: Season 1 (2019) EDIT “It's an unholy marriage of every game-show cliché imaginable, with odds against contestants that would make any casino floor boss drool.” – Book & Film Globe Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Holey Moley: Season 1 (2019) 92% EDIT “Your enjoyment of Holey Moley will depend largely on your Rob Riggle tolerance. The bro comedian gets a lot of screen time, sitting alongside an actual sportscaster... his jokes land more often than they don't.” – Book & Film Globe Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Young Justice: Season 3 (2019) 96% EDIT “For all the special features and soap-opera melodrama, it's still mostly about stuff exploding and people flying around really fast. The more things change in the DC Universe, the more they stay the same.” – Book & Film Globe Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Letdown: Season 2 (2019) EDIT “'The Letdown' presents a world where men don't matter very much. As a male viewer, I find this pretty disturbing.” – Book & Film Globe Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 10 (2020) 94% EDIT “This season of Curb is going to have a lot of fun with the idea that a relatively innocent guy can get caught up in historical circumstances he can't control.” – Book & Film Globe Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Catastrophe: Season 4 (2019) 95% EDIT “It's often snobby and more than occasionally mean. It has a thin, subtle story, and lacks memorable set pieces.” – Book & Film Globe Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Watchmen: Season 1 (2019) 96% EDIT “There's a lot going on in Watchmen. Actually, there's too much, a surplus of narrative, too many three-minute set pieces that don't advance the story, and way, way too many flashbacks.” – Book & Film Globe Jan 30, 2020 Full Review GLOW: Season 3 (2019) 87% EDIT “There's a kind of theater-dork fantasy camp thing going on with the GLOW writer's staff. Instead of pile-drivers, we must endure torch songs and glitter-bombs, which just don't make sense in the context of the show.” – Book & Film Globe Jan 30, 2020 Full Review
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