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Scott Tobias

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

I see movies, watch DVDs, and read books, then I get paid to write what I think of them. Beats doing stuff.

Favorites:

Top 5 (no order): Sansho The Bailiff, Duck Soup, Tokyo Story, Shoot The Piano Player, Taxi Driver

Location:

Chicago

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Pluribus: Season 1, Episode 9 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “If season one was Invasion of the Body Snatchers, perhaps season two will be more like War of the Worlds. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1, Episode 8 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “What we get from Carol in this revelatory episode is much more nuanced, a combination of affection and hostility toward Zosia and the Others that’s not so easily untangled.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1, Episode 7 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “Being alone is hard. And as much as Carol likes to challenge and rebel against Zosia and the Others, that tension is a form of companionship, and its absence has clearly exacted a huge emotional toll on her. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1, Episode 6 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “[Pluribus] isn’t specifically a show about AI, but which does ask viewers to think about the value of humanity in the face of a more uniform, homogenizing threat.” – New York Times Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1, Episode 4 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “If there was ever any question about Carol’s commitment to saving humanity, it’s put to rest this week with her willingness to learn what Helen, the woman she loved and respected most in this world, actually thought of her work.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 22, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1, Episode 2 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “The final moments of the episode are more poignant, however, and suggest an important shift in the Carol-Celtiberian divide.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1, Episode 1 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “The exciting part of the premiere is that it hits us with a grand-scale alien apocalypse while telling us tantalizingly little about what it all means.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Death by Lightning: Season 1, Episode 1 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “Though Guiteau and Garfield share a handshake at the end of “The Man From Ohio,” the episode elegantly sets them on the path to their crash course in Chicago, where they are pursuing important individual ambitions. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Slow Horses: Season 5, Episode 6 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “It is supremely satisfying that the only head that rolls at the end of season five is Whelan’s, whose cravenness and stupidity finally catches up to the shameless opportunism that had brought him all the way to First Desk.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Slow Horses: Season 5, Episode 5 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “The episode in general is a wonderful showcase for Gary Oldman, who gets to hold court in every scene like Hercule Poirot at the end of an Agatha Christie novel, because he’s far ahead of everyone else. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Slow Horses: Season 5, Episode 4 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “In this week’s wildly entertaining episode, Slow Horses explores the entire spectrum of competence at Slough House, landing on a moment of such catastrophic misfortune that it’s hard to guess how anyone will recover.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Slow Horses: Season 5, Episode 3 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “As the fulcrum to the entire terrorist plot this season, however, the Roddy character has done much to establish the tone, which is much sillier than usual, despite kicking off with a massacre that’s surely the most harrowing sequence the show has done.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Slow Horses: Season 5, Episode 2 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Slow Horses is a twisty show, but the assumption that Roddy had been hoodwinked by a glamorous woman far out of his league seemed about as safe a bet as possible. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Slow Horses: Season 5, Episode 1 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Roddy does indeed appear to be the target of a nefarious enterprise and his continued obliviousness makes him a good one.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Rehearsal: Season 2, Episode 6 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “The brilliant finale of The Rehearsal works like the prestige of a magic trick, when all the smoke and mirrors fall away and we return to the core principle of the show itself, which is that anything is possible with diligence and practice.” – New York Magazine/Vulture May 28, 2025 Full Review The Rehearsal: Season 2, Episode 5 (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Fielder mostly casts aside his co-pilots and actors in “Washington” and plants himself uncomfortably in the frame.” – New York Magazine/Vulture May 19, 2025 Full Review The Rehearsal: Season 2, Episode 4 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Keeps adding fascinating new layers of scare-quote “reality,” placing himself in the middle like a scientist still considering the results of an experiment.” – New York Magazine/Vulture May 12, 2025 Full Review The Rehearsal: Season 2, Episode 3 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “As this season has gotten more hilariously digressive in its social experiments, so has Fielder in pressing for ever-more-absurd attempts at verisimilitude.” – New York Magazine/Vulture May 5, 2025 Full Review The Righteous Gemstones: Season 4, Episode 9 (2025) 3/5 EDIT “So The Righteous Gemstones went with the sentimental ending — or at least what counts for a sentimental ending in a series so committed to the filthiest possible turns of phrase. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture May 5, 2025 Full Review The Rehearsal: Season 2, Episode 2 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “The ingenious trick of The Rehearsal so far this season is that its comic premise — spending generous HBO resources to explore and improve the relationship between co-pilots and captains on commercial airline flights — isn’t nearly as narrow as it sounds.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 28, 2025 Full Review The Righteous Gemstones: Season 4, Episode 8 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “There’s a moment in the episode, too, where Goggins is so funny that he seems to get a genuine laugh out of John Goodman the actor rather than Eli Gemstone the character. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 28, 2025 Full Review The Rehearsal: Season 2, Episode 1 (2025) 5/5 EDIT “The Rehearsal, in the Fielder way, is already building out into unexpected places, like the scaffolding in Synecdoche, New York.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 21, 2025 Full Review The Righteous Gemstones: Season 4, Episode 7 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “The funniest material this week was all in the B- and C-plots.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 21, 2025 Full Review The Righteous Gemstones: Season 4, Episode 6 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Opening in 2002, the episode makes it clear that the community hasn’t entirely forgiven Eli and Aimee-Leigh for the Y2K buckets or other related scams, but they can’t necessarily do anything about it. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 14, 2025 Full Review The Righteous Gemstones: Season 4, Episode 5 (2025) 3/5 EDIT “With “Interlude IV,” the show’s mid-season gearshift on the horizon, tonight’s episode of The Righteous Gemstones has to do a lot of table-setting for the final stretch, which might account for why it’s a shade less inspired than usual. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 7, 2025 Full Review
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