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Brian Orndorf

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East Coast

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Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Pee-wee as Himself: Season 1 (2025) 100% A- EDIT ““Pee-wee as Himself” truly captures the complexity of the performer and his personal struggle with identity.” – Blu-ray.com May 21, 2025 Full Review Toxic Crusaders: Season 1 (1991) C EDIT “It's not unappealing work, but it's not terribly exciting, and tired shtick (such as breaking the fourth wall) tends to smother the heroic elements that do manage to connect.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 9, 2025 Full Review Steve! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces: Season 1, Episode 2 (2024) A- EDIT “The chaos of this “well, excuuuuuuse me!” popularity is vividly detailed in the documentary, zeroing in on a level of claustrophobia and fatigue that would find Martin retiring from the stage in 1980.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 27, 2024 Full Review Steve! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces: Season 1, Episode 1 (2024) A- EDIT ““Steve!” provides a different appreciation for career triumphs, and it also gets enjoyably close to a man who’s prided himself on distance for quite some time.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 27, 2024 Full Review Arnold: Season 1 (2023) 70% B+ EDIT ““Arnold” has its glossiness, dealing with a subject who fully understands the power of self-promotion, but it also carries outstanding attention to Schwarzenegger’s sacrifices and ferocious ambition.” – Blu-ray.com Jun 6, 2023 Full Review El Deafo: Season 1 (2022) A EDIT “"El Deafo" is simply wonderful.” – Blu-ray.com Jan 12, 2022 Full Review Music Box: Season 1.1 (2021) 91% C EDIT “What's missing from the documentary are hard questions to the right people.” – Blu-ray.com Jul 28, 2021 Full Review Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Season 1, Episode 1 (2021) B+ EDIT “"The Bad Batch" has a lot of room to grow with planets to visit and characters to smack around, and the introduction successfully motivates future antagonisms and mysteries.” – Blu-ray.com May 4, 2021 Full Review Secrets of the Whales: Season 1 (2021) 91% B EDIT “There's a formula to this style of "edutainment" that's comforting but also a bit frustrating at times, as the whole show could benefit from a fresher approach.” – BrianOrndorf.com Apr 21, 2021 Full Review The Almighty Johnsons: Season 1 (2012) 83% C EDIT “Pays vague attention to the magical forces that run the universe, submitting weak jokes and feeble conflicts as it works to define its creative mission in ten episodes.” – Blu-ray.com Sep 21, 2020 Full Review The Hollow Crown: Season 2 (2016) 100% 4/5 EDIT “"The Wars of the Roses" is a long sit, meant to be absorbed one history play at a time, but there's such propulsive energy to the production, it feels like one complete epic.” – Blu-ray.com Nov 21, 2019 Full Review Little Women: Season 1 (2017) 81% 3/5 EDIT “"Little Women" doesn't squeeze viewers as tightly as previous adaptations, but it's refined work with a special folksy sway and refreshed appreciation for Alcott's original creation. It's three hours in need of six, but there's plenty here to embrace.” – Blu-ray.com Nov 19, 2019 Full Review The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: Season 1 (2019) 89% C- EDIT “The new production is missing Henson's sense of elegance, with Leterrier content to remain noisy and needlessly sadistic.” – Blu-ray.com Sep 5, 2019 Full Review B+ EDIT “Fully stocked with the old D magic, creating a silly stew of raunchy missions, inane banter, and free-range imagination to give the feature plenty of insanity to savor.” – Blu-ray.com Nov 9, 2018 Full Review Bosom Buddies: Season 1 (1980) 80% 4/5 EDIT “I'm not convinced Buddies has aged all that well, but it has a sparkle and freewheeling hostility to its comedy that still makes it stand out in today's marketplace.” – DVDTalk.com Jul 2, 2018 Full Review Mike & Molly: Season 1 (2010) 69% D EDIT “Without the talents of Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell, "Mike & Molly" would be completely unwatchable.” – Blu-ray.com Nov 12, 2017 Full Review Mr. Selfridge on Masterpiece: Season 3 (2015) 71% D EDIT “Indulges a soap opera atmosphere with renewed determination, keeping "Mr. Selfridge" simple, overcooked, and, at times, dismally performed.” – Blu-ray.com May 7, 2015 Full Review Fortitude: Season 1 (2015) 81% C- EDIT “It's the writing that ultimately does the show in, only delivering a halfhearted pass at a snowbound disaster, often caught trying to manipulate and inflate instead of smartly portioning and executing its lukewarm concept of environmental malevolence.” – Blu-ray.com Apr 10, 2015 Full Review The Roosevelts: An Intimate History: Season 1 (2014) 100% A EDIT “In typical Burns fashion, historical fixation results in television gold, devoting 14 hours to the understanding of motivation, hubris, and compassion.” – Blu-ray.com Sep 27, 2014 Full Review Breathless: Season 1 (2013) 86% D+ EDIT “Takes one hour of story and breaks it up into six episodes, dragging out secrets and indiscretions to a point where they cease to retain their intended meaning.” – Blu-ray.com Sep 27, 2014 Full Review Endeavour: Season 2 (2014) 83% B- EDIT “Fascinating are Argento-esque touches that emphasize menacing black-gloved killers and macabre weaponry, but Series 2 doesn't have the energy to follow through on this promising development, content to tease and back away.” – Blu-ray.com Sep 27, 2014 Full Review Lewis: Season 7 (2013) B- EDIT “Odd at times, but rarely does Inspector Lewis fail when it comes to tinkering with the puzzle of murder, delivering a satisfactory season of slippery suspects and personal inventory.” – Blu-ray.com Jul 5, 2014 Full Review B EDIT “Retains flavor and tension, and while it's unclear where the whole endeavor supposed to travel after the end credits, it's strong enough to support a single interaction with Will Burton and his newly reformatted mind for justice.” – Blu-ray.com Jul 5, 2014 Full Review Mr. Selfridge on Masterpiece: Season 2 (2014) 71% D+ EDIT “The second go-around for Harry Selfridge and the commerce gang reeks of desperation, eschewing thoughtful, significant conflicts to become a turn-of-the-century Days of Our Lives.” – Blu-ray.com May 10, 2014 Full Review The Bletchley Circle: Season 2 (2014) 71% C+ EDIT “Instead of stroking suspense, the show starts and stops in fits, never finding a thrilling stride that unites the mysteries and deepens characterizations. Let's hope that Anna isn't on a permanent vacation.” – Blu-ray.com Apr 20, 2014 Full Review
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