Television Review: Ted Lasso S3E11 “Mom City”
Well, here we are: the penultimate episode of the season and, dare I say, series. It’s certainly a little bittersweet to think about, but I’ll save those thoughts for next week when the series wraps up. The show has mostly set football aside the last few episodes, showing just a couple of brief clips while […]
Television Review: Ted Lasso S3E10 “International Break”
Catharsis. I feel like I’ve used that word a bit when talking about Ted Lasso, but ultimately, it’s the best term I can use to describe most of the episodes. Each episode is designed to elicit some sort of emotion (in most cases, multiple emotions), and while small issues may be resolved by the end […]
Television Review: Ted Lasso S3E9 “La Locker Room Aux Folles”
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” – John Stuart Mill When Colin was shown to be gay […]
Television Review: Ted Lasso S3E8 “We’ll Never Have Paris”
After the incredible highs of the recent few episodes (even though the team has been struggling), it seemed almost inevitable that at some point the grades for Ted Lasso episodes might start regressing to the mean.* * Perhaps it’s truly an inversion; the worse the team performance, the better the episodes? The bulk of the […]
Television Review: Ted Lasso S3E7 “The Strings That Bind Us”
“But a man does not fight merely to win! No—no—better to know one fights in vain!” I remember the words one of my former co-workers once said. No, not the quote above; Edmond Rostand predates me by about 120 years. But said co-worker is huge into sports, and his sons are as well. And when […]
Television Review: Ted Lasso S3E6 “Sunflowers”
“Where is she going?” “With someone that believes they deserve her.” *punches wall* And so we’ve reached the halfway point of the third (and likely final) season. After dropping a friendly match in Amsterdam, Ted decides the team needs a bit of a break. After boarding the bus back to the hotel, he announces to […]
Television Review: Ted Lasso S3E4 “Big Week”
“I’m a work in progmess.” Me too, Ted. Me too. Well, as evidenced by the title of the episode, “Big Week,” this is it. The big anticipated matchup between AFC Richmond and West Ham. Ted vs. Nate the Wonder Kid with first place on the line. And that’s the storyline that dominates much of the […]
TV Review: Ted Lasso S3E2 “(I Don’t Want to go to) Chelsea”
Note: since I reviewed episode 1, I will be writing this as if the reader has already watched it. If you haven’t, go back and watch it! It’s game time! While the first episode was an excellent building block for the upcoming season, it didn’t have any football in it, leaving us in anticipation of […]
Netflix Review: THE LIBERATOR
“Until youRemember, suprisingly, that common men have done good deeds.” -Robert Penn Warren If we want to be optimistic, the history of America is laden with ordinary men and women stepping up when it was needed, to deliver in the clutch when others couldn’t. Be it the farmers who fought for independence in the American […]
Welcome to JURASSIC WORLD: CAMP CRETACEOUS, the New Netflix Show
One of my favorite movies of all time is Steven Spielberg’s 1993 larger-than-life dinosaur adventure, Jurassic Park. The adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel is thrilling, scary, and action-packed from beginning to end. The idea of returning to this world is exciting, and it all started with the 2015 blockbuster Jurassic World starring Chris Pratt and […]