Zack Handlen's posts

Be careful what you wish for, I guess. “The Sound Of Thunder” spends nearly all of its running time focused on a…

Five episodes into its second season, and Star Trek: Discovery is still working on getting the balance of…

So the first good news is that even though a couple of characters speak Klingon in “An Obol For Charon,” no actual…

“New Eden” finds Star Trek: Discovery offering its own take on a classic Trek archetype: the theme planet. When…

Star Trek: Discovery’s second season premiere doesn’t waste much time. Within ten minutes, we’ve got our portentous…

“The End” is good. I’d go so far as to say that it’s very good. So good, in fact, that it makes me that much more…

There’s a lot of good in the second part of “The Penultimate Peril.” We finally find out what happened that night at…

And here we find ourselves at the end—not “The End,” that’s still a couple episodes away, but the climax, the acme…

A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ two-part episode structure has been with the show from the start. It’s an artistic…

All things considered, Mount Fraught wasn’t a particularly interesting place. Much of the pleasure of A Series Of…

I feel bad for Violet and Klaus. Oh, not because their parents died in a fire, leaving them orphans; and not because…

[Inset boilerplate rewording of “series of unfortunate events” here. I dunno, maybe try something that rhymes this…

This is not going to be a clever review. Oh, I thought about it. Black Mirror’s newest entry “Bandersnatch” is a…

So that’s what happened to the teleporter. All this time, I assumed the Monarch and Gary would’ve kept it to…

Oh man, this is a good one. The whole season I’ve been reluctant to go above an “A-,” my standard “this is terrific,…

Last week, Doc Venture (along with Billy and Pete) invented a teleportation device that could revolutionize the…

Tonight’s Venture Bros. asks a simple but unexpected question: what happens if Doctor Venture actually came up with…

Seven seasons in, and it’s impressive how the show still manages to feel fresh when introducing information that…

I’d be hard-pressed to imagine something closer to the platonic ideal of a late-season Venture Bros. episode. All…

After the tightly-plotted highs of the season’s three part opener, “The High Cost Of Loathing” slows things down… a…