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Randy Dankievitch

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Randy Dankievitch is a critic and editor living in Portland, Maine, writing and podcasting about television, film, and video games since 2010.

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1, Episode 4 (2026) A EDIT “A Knight of the Seven Kingdom‘s many elements snap into place, delivering one of the most heartfelt half hours in fictional Westerosian literature.” – Processed Media Feb 11, 2026 Full Review A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1, Episode 3 (2026) A- EDIT “ A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms continues to surprise and delight with its strong core performances and impeccable aesthetics, all led by strong thematic foundation reaching towards the deeper themes and ideas lying within the Dunk and Egg series.” – Processed Media Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The Pitt: Season 2, Episode 3 (2026) B+ EDIT “"9:00 A.M." is another strong entry – although one whose construction is laid a bit more bare with so many different stories and characters to intertwine and overlap, all before the season’s major catalyzing event kicks into place.” – Processed Media Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Memory of a Killer: Season 1 (2026) 45% C- EDIT “Memory of a Killer‘s bifurcated identities – introspective family drama and hitman thriller – struggle to coalesce, making the Patrick Dempsey-led adaptation feel like a very sleek, sterilized, and flat drama just begging for a sense of personality.” – Processed Media Jan 28, 2026 Full Review A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1, Episode 2 (2026) A- EDIT “"Hard Salt Beef" is an incredibly encouraging - and occasionally, even touching - second episode, one... [with] an interesting contrast in class and identity that I hope continues to be a thematic core of this first season.” – Processed Media Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Pitt: Season 2, Episode 2 (2026) B+ EDIT “All in all, another strong 45 minutes for The Pitt, in a season that’s already percolating with new ideas, intriguing patient mysteries – and the unshakeable, kinetic feeling that things... are right on the edge of chaos.” – Processed Media Jan 23, 2026 Full Review A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1, Episode 1 (2026) B+ EDIT “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms's first half hour is an unexpectedly pleasant, low-key affair... that allows the Game of Thrones-iverse to reground itself in some strong, character-focused storytelling.” – Processed Media Jan 19, 2026 Full Review The Pitt: Season 2, Episode 1 (2026) B+ EDIT “[7:00 AM] is what a sophomore premiere should be; effortlessly reminding the audience of what brought everyone back for a second go-round, but with enough tweaks and new elements alluding to another fascinating, emotionally resonant day [ahead].” – Processed Media Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Best Medicine: Season 1 (2026) 77% C+ EDIT “There's a surprising amount of goofy charm in the fledgling medical dramedy, and a few moments of heart and humor that slightly elevate it above the sea of cozy cliches it builds its foundation on.” – Processed Media Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5, Episode 8 (2025) B EDIT “["The Rightside Up" is] a... propulsive and even occasionally reflective series finale - one that doesn't much squinting to see its glaring holes and dangling threads, but does just enough to remind the audience, and itself, where its heart truly lies.” – Processed Media Jan 1, 2026 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5, Episode 7 (2025) C+ EDIT “When it isn't pushing towards Will's inevitable 'reveal', "The Bridge" is, generally speaking, a pretty solid - if unexpectedly muted - way to prepare for the Stranger Things series finale.” – Processed Media Dec 28, 2025 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5, Episode 6 (2025) B+ EDIT “There’s a definite "it’s about time" feeling when it comes to the bigger swings of "Escape from Camazotz"... which, surprisingly, provides a solid foundation for one of the best entries of season five.” – Processed Media Dec 27, 2025 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5, Episode 5 (2025) B- EDIT “..."Chapter Five: Shock Jock" is able to deliver just enough haunting images and powerful moments to keep the episode from floating completely adrift amongst its many, many interlocking and overlapping plot details. ” – Processed Media Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5, Episode 4 (2025) B- EDIT “"The Sorcerer" marks the beginning of the end for Stranger Things, with two big twists that lay bare the season's strongest and weakest elements.” – Processed Media Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5, Episode 3 (2025) EDIT “The penultimate episode of Stranger Things 5‘s first volume can’t escape the fragmentation of its own ambition, which leads to an head-scratching 69-minute episode that feels like its both going too slow and too fast all at once.” – Processed Media Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5, Episode 2 (2025) C- EDIT “"Chapter Two: The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler" is... a limply-paced, incredibly repetitive hour of shoddy dialogue and underwhelming character dynamics that fails to move both plot and character forward with any sense of conviction.” – Processed Media Nov 30, 2025 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5, Episode 1 (2025) B EDIT “Though certainly not a perfect hour, "Chapter One: The Crawl" is a solid (thought stagnant) opening for Stranger Things 5, as it explores a town and people left in figurative purgatory for the past eighteen months and prepares for its own endgame.” – Processed Media Nov 27, 2025 Full Review IT: Welcome to Derry: Season 1, Episode 2 (2025) C+ EDIT “It: Welcome to Derry’s second episode is much like its first – intriguing, but slightly undercooked, and elevated by two terrifying scenes.” – Processed Media Oct 31, 2025 Full Review IT: Welcome to Derry: Season 1 (2025) 81% C+ EDIT “With a striking pair of scenes bookending its first episode, it’s easy to see the potential of It: Welcome to Derry‘s premise... But between the walls of those terrifying scenes lie a rather pedestrian first hour for It: Welcome to Derry.” – Processed Media Oct 27, 2025 Full Review DMV: Season 1 (2025) 65% C EDIT “CBS’s only new comedy of the fall is a mildly intriguing workplace comedy, albeit with a rather inert pilot episode.” – Processed Media Oct 14, 2025 Full Review The Lowdown: Season 1 (2025) 98% A- EDIT “While the instruments and sounds of The Lowdown‘s pilot episode are discernable to even a casual viewer of crime dramas, how it is composed and arranged easily makes it one of the best, most engrossing new series of 2025.” – Processed Media Sep 24, 2025 Full Review King of the Hill: Season 14 (2025) 98% A- EDIT “When King of the Hill pulls back to observe the few lasting bits of Americana identity remaining in the Hills and the Arlen around them, it remains as iconic as ever, a warm bit of comfort food properly updated to find its way in our strange times.” – Processed Media Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Running Point: Season 1, Episode 10 (2025) F EDIT ““Game Seven” is one of the worst episodes of TV in 2025, 30 minutes of trope-y [nonsense] that fails to resolve any of its stories, or convince any member of the audience why they should return for season two.” – Processed Media Jul 2, 2025 Full Review Ironheart: Season 1 (2025) 76% C- EDIT “Much of the long-awaited miniseries feels more like an afterthought than a worthy origin story - or worse, a meaningless exercise in imitation, left isolated and adrift in a random pocket of a convoluted, oversaturated franchise.” – Processed Media Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Running Point: Season 1, Episode 9 (2025) F EDIT “when “The Playoffs” makes its big emotional pushes, it unintentionally reveals just how empty and shortsighted the core of Running Point has been to this point, its identity... an assemblage of concepts and ideas thoroughly unexplored in the show’s text.” – Processed Media Jun 16, 2025 Full Review
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