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Keith Uhlich

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Biography:

I don't know Butchie instead.

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The Crown: Season 5 (2022) 71% EDIT “The penultimate season leans so hard into metaphor that the characters can’t help but remark on the fact in catty ways comparable to Rose Nylund’s sick burn of Dorothy Zbornak in one of my favorite Golden Girls episodes.” – (All (Parentheses)) (Substack) Nov 15, 2022 Full Review Millennium: Season 1 (1996) 69% 4/5 EDIT “Chris Carter's television work always improves in retrospect; his seemingly haphazard, on-the-fly narratives become more coherent when taken out of the hellish, commercial break-happy context wherein they spawned.” – Slant Magazine Oct 14, 2021 Full Review It's a Sin: Season 1 (2021) 97% 4/4 EDIT “The series is about reorienting shame and blame from those who died to those who couldn't be bothered.” – Slant Magazine Feb 26, 2021 Full Review Small Axe: Season 2 (2020) 98% EDIT “The film ebbs and flows, pulses, plateaus and dips like many a dusk-to-dawn soirée.” – (All (Parentheses)) (Substack) Oct 19, 2020 Full Review Berlin Alexanderplatz: Season 1 94% 2.5/5 EDIT “I don't think Fassbinder entirely believes in this bill of goods he's selling us, but he seems incapable of resolving the complex undercurrents of Berlin Alexanderplatz, preferring to indulge his (not incorrect) instincts toward self-destruction.” – Slant Magazine Aug 19, 2020 Full Review Blood & Oil: Season 1 (2015) 63% EDIT “Soap operatic machinations and narrative plausibility need not necessarily be bedfellows. But there's little in Blood & Oil that compels in the way of the best trash TV.” – The Hollywood Reporter May 19, 2020 Full Review The Lone Gunmen: Season 1 (2001) 38% 3.5/5 EDIT “Ignore Fox Mulder's mantra: You can trust The Lone Gunmen.” – Slant Magazine Nov 14, 2019 Full Review SuperMansion: Season 1 (2015) 40% EDIT “The show takes viewers right up to the cliff's edge of outrage before gently reneging. It's all bad taste in good fun, and the tonal whiplash that results tends to neutralize the humor.” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 27, 2019 Full Review Harsh Realm: Season 1 (1999) 44% 2.5/5 EDIT “Unlike [Chris] Carter's primarily stand-alone based narratives for The X-Files and Millennium, Harsh Realm offered the chance for more freewheeling moral tales, Pynchon-like narrative digressions not only possible, but encouraged.” – Slant Magazine Jul 12, 2019 Full Review Bonding: Season 1 (2019) 73% EDIT “Nate Hurtsellers's cinematography ably apes the saturated, sultry vibrance of an Almodovar or Araki joint, but can't counter the overall aura of patronizing squareness.” – The Hollywood Reporter May 6, 2019 Full Review Hannibal: Season 3 (2015) 98% EDIT “This last run of episodes has been exceptional, adapting Harris's Red Dragon novel with Fuller's distinctive visual flair, and making even the most familiar elements of the Lecter universe feel inspired again.” – BBC.com Jan 15, 2019 Full Review Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 6 (1997) 3/5 EDIT “A bittersweet farewell to Frank Pembleton, the simple, direct power of which transcends the often imprisoning and retrogressive medium it graces.” – Slant Magazine Aug 15, 2018 Full Review Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 5 (1996) 3/5 EDIT “Illuminating the human condition even as it denies any morally superior sense of closure. It's televisual cinema par excellence.” – Slant Magazine Aug 15, 2018 Full Review Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 7 (1998) 86% 3/5 EDIT “Pembleton's absence in season seven doesn't particularly bother me; if anything it forces the rest of the ensemble cast to step up and compensate.” – Slant Magazine Aug 15, 2018 Full Review Deadwood: Season 1 (2004) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Creator/head writer David Milch has his hand in each script and story arc and it shows.” – Slant Magazine Jun 11, 2018 Full Review The Critic: Season 2 (1995) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “The emotional grounding leads to a pretty consistent string of great episodes, including my all-time favorite, "Sherman of Arabia..."” – Slant Magazine Apr 20, 2018 Full Review The Critic: Season 1 (1994) 85% 3.5/5 EDIT “The remainder of the first season reaches similar heights only sporadically, though this is not to say that any of the show's episodes are painfully without humor.” – Slant Magazine Apr 20, 2018 Full Review Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1, Episode 18 (2017) EDIT “We know exactly where this leads.” – MUBI Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1, Episode 17 (2017) EDIT “The fate of the world is at stake and it's being hashed out in the squarest place imaginable.” – MUBI Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1, Episode 16 (2017) EDIT “A return to one's core self is not a regression. Time still passes, and moving inward doesn't mean you stop moving forward.” – MUBI Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1, Episode 15 (2017) EDIT “More and more, the new "Twin Peaks" seems to be a meditation on, as much as it is guided by, serendipity.” – MUBI Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1, Episode 14 (2017) EDIT “Words have the power to transfix, but they can also be inadequate, diluting "the absurd mystery of the strange forces of existence."” – MUBI Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1, Episode 13 (2017) EDIT “The pain of reality drives innumerable Lynch characters to chase the simple pleasures of fantasy. But they've built a prison for themselves.” – MUBI Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1, Episode 12 (2017) EDIT “Every time you think you have a grip, Lynch and Frost introduce some element that upsets the balance and forces you to re-calibrate.” – MUBI Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1, Episode 11 (2017) EDIT “The episode plays as if someone was continually revving a car engine into the red, but never in a calculable way.” – MUBI Mar 29, 2018 Full Review
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