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WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS SERIES REVIEW The Watergate scandal back in the early 70s led to the resignation of president Richard Nixon. Are you under 30? You probably recognize that president from Futurama as portrayed by Billy West. Turn off that cartoon and dive into some historical dramatic comedy. The former CIA agent and current author […]

SUCCESSION SEASON 4 REVIEW Last season on Succession, big bad CO of Waystar RoyCo Logan Roy (Brian Cox) reins supreme and has laid the smack down on his children. If you come after the king, you better be prepared to ravage the land, salt the earth, and drag the bodies of your enemies behind a […]

THE LAST OF US SERIES REVIEW Neil Druckmann takes his blockbuster video game from the small screen to…the other part of the small screen. Pedro Pascal stars as Joel and Bella Ramsey stars as Ellie in a world ravaged by mutated cordyceps that turns anyone infected into a mindless zombie. The continental United States is […]

THE WHITE LOTUS SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Welcome back to The White Lotus, a crown jewel of luxury, this time nestled in Sicilian town of Taormina. There’s new faces but don’t worry, everything isn’t black and white. Speaking of White, of the Mike variety… Mike White returns to write and direct all 7 episodes and […]

A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS MOVIE REVIEW It is really hard to live up to what has been dubbed by society as a “classic.” Especially when the original has been on a constant loop, every Christmas Day, on Ted Turner’s Broadcast Station. I know I know… what’s a broadcast station (traditional television) and who the fuck […]

GAME OF THRONES: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SERIES REVIEW In 2019, Winter came in like a wrecking ball and left with a whimper. Ice King’s melted, bastards were battled, and democracy for the elite had come to Westeros. 200 years before, an internal succession war waged on with in the halls of the house Targaryen. […]

HARLEY QUINN SEASON 3 REVIEW Harley Quinn and the cob squad are back busting heads and wreaking havoc all throughout the grimy streets of Gotham.  We shall all celebrate their return in the ways of Themyscira.  We’re going to have a F*#ck’n Rager.  Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco) and Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) want the world […]

THE REHEARSAL SERIES REVIEW Nathan Fielder of Nathan For You fame turns the cameras on the individual as he attempts to solve people’s problems by allowing them to rehearse them. As always, Nathan goes to great and sometimes unorthodox lengths to help the participants. Things don’t go off the rails so much as the rails […]

WESTWORLD SEASON 4 REVIEW The newest latest season of Westworld gets back to the gestating ideas of season one without skimping on the action of season three. Every human cell is replaced after seven years. The fourth season picks up the story exactly seven years later, a telling sign for the future of humanity. It’s the year […]

IRMA VEP SERIES REVIEW In 1996, writer director Olivier Assayas made Irma Vep, a film about the (fictional) feature film remake of the (real) seven hour, 1915 silent serial, Les Vampires. Over 25 years later, Assayas has turned his previous film into a ten part HBO miniseries. In the original, actress Maggie Cheung played herself, […]

THE JANES MOVIE REVIEW It was a time when women of the United States were treated like second class citizens and legislature was being discussed to criminalize their very own bodies. I’m sorry, let me be a bit more specific. Prior to the Supreme Court decriminalization of abortion in 1973, a group of women called […]

BARRY SEASON 3 REVIEW HBO’s hottest dark comedy crime thriller is back, and it’s got everything, panther fights, Grand Theft Auto motorcycle gang chases, silver fox Henry Winkler in the greatest performance of his already illustrious career (Henry Twinkler, which is a guy in a Fonzie costume made entirely out of latex who does that […]

HACKS SEASON 2 REVIEW We never got around to reviewing the first season of HBO’s magnificently clever series Hacks, probably because we had no inkling of how great it would turn out to be ahead of time. But now that the second season is out, Chris, Neil, and Frank were raring to go to review […]

THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT SEASON 2 REVIEW The Flight Attendant season 2 is here and Kaley Cuoco’s Cassie Bowden is moving to Los Angeles, The Screener Squad is following right behind her with with a moving van full of haunting family trauma, more international murders, even more family trauma, and a full cast of old friends […]

GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM SERIES REVIEW From directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio comes George Carlin’s American Dream, a two part documentary about the legendary stand-up comedian. Clocking in at nearly four hours, this is as definitive a documentary as we’re likely to get on Carlin’s life and career. Made with the participation of Carlin’s […]

WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY SERIES REVIEW Have you ever wondered how the Los Angeles Lakers became the basketball institution they are today? Adam McKay, HBO, and their creative team are here to teach you all about it in Winning Time. Adapted from the book by Jeff Pearlman, this first season follows […]

THE SURVIVOR MOVIE REVIEW Today the screener squad is reviewing yet another great Ben Foster performance. This time around, Ben plays Harry Haft in the biopic The Survivor. Harry Haft is a holocaust survivor who made it through Auschwitz by boxing his fellow prisoners, to the entertainment of Nazi SS officers. Juxtapose that imagery with […]

TOKYO VICE SERIES REVIEW His skin was as white as his linen shirt when the tall man stepped onto the wet, neon drenched streets of Tokyo. If you ask him, he’s the best gaijin reporter that ever cast his shadow upon the street’s of Japan’s capital city. If you ask anybody else, he’s the ONLY gaijin […]

MOONSHOT MOVIE REVIEW It would appear that someone pitched a rom-com involving a college road trip where a dopey, yet lovable and of course attractive young guy sneaks onto a prestigious academic excursion that he is not qualified to be on in order to chase the love of his life, who he only just met, […]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SERIES REVIEW The Screener Squad is setting out on the open seas with the new comedy/drama Our Flag Means Death. Stede Bonnet has left his family behind to become a pirate, but not just any kind of pirate. He wants to become the first “gentleman pirate.” From paying his crew a […]

THE GILDED AGE SERIES REVIEW You are cordially invited to listen to this review of HBO’s new series from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, The Gilded Age. Set in 1882, the period drama is a conflict of old money versus new money, represented prominently by the van Rhijn-Brook and Russell family respectively as Marian Brook […]

RAISED BY WOLVES SEASON 2 REVIEW Season 2 of Raised By Wolves proves that it’s still one of the strangest shows on television. The story follows Mother and Father (Amanda Collin and Abubakar Salim), a pair of androids programmed to raise human children on a remote planet after a religious war leaves 22nd century Earth […]

EUPHORIA SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Euphoria is back with season 2 and the further examination of the life of an American teen. But not, like, the life of an American teen you see on network shows where hard lessons are learned and the melodrama is scored by whatever pop song is currently topping the Gen-Z […]

THE GIRL BEFORE SERIES REVIEW Based on the sexy thriller written by J. P. Delaney, The Girl Before is a character examination of the inner houses we call our souls and what sort of portraits we hang on the walls of our hearts. But it features plenty of long legs and chiseled abs as well. […]

PEACEMAKER SERIES REVIEW Continuing on where the post-credits scene in The Suicide Squad left off, this HBO Max eight-episode series explores what happens next for the anti-hero Peacemaker (John Cena) after his hospitalization. Of course, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) isn’t going to let him go that easy and there are some of her subordinates, Jennifer […]