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REVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 6 “So This is Christmas?”

AlexGherzo | Dec 22, 2021 | 0

Hawkeye’s finale, “So This is Christmas?” is a fitting end for the miniseries in that it has a few good moments, and a better story is aching to break through, but it’s caught in a mire of boring plotlines, weightless action, unsatisfying character arcs, and some of the laziest fight scenes ...

REVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 5 “Ronin”

AlexGherzo | Dec 16, 2021 | 0

“Ronin,” the penultimate episode of Hawkeye, is maybe the worst yet. It’s little more than connective tissue, a series of dull scenes that move characters into place for the finale, but not in exciting or fun ways. There are plot developments that further diminish what should have been the ser...

REVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 4 “Partners, Am I Right?”

AlexGherzo | Dec 8, 2021 | 0

Every so often, a show will deliver an episode that, though unintentionally, perfectly encapsulates the series as a whole. “Partners, Am I Right?” is that for Hawkeye, at least so far. It gives the characters a breather after last week’s action-heavy episode, and while a few meaningful moments...

REVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 2 “Hide and Seek”

AlexGherzo | Nov 24, 2021 | 0

“Hide and Seek,” the second part of Hawkeye’s premiere twofer, takes one step forward and two steps back. It’s a big improvement in the acting department, but it’s also a meandering drag with a silly sidequest for Clint and plodding melodrama for Kate. And it gives us our first indication ...

REVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 1 “Never Meet Your Heroes”

AlexGherzo | Nov 24, 2021 | 0

Hawkeye, Marvel’s latest Diseny+ series aimed at replacing one of their beloved heroes with a new… sorry, I mean expanding their already expansive cinematic universe in new and exciting ways, has dropped. (In doing so, it’s made me break my tradition of avoiding Christmas-related activities ti...

REVIEW: The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

AlexGherzo | Oct 1, 2021 | 5

The Many Saints of Newark was a risky proposition from the get-go. To follow up something as beloved and intricately constructed as The Sopranos is one of the clearest examples of a fool’s errand imaginable. It becomes greater in the wake of El Camino, which added nothing to Breaking Bad and ruine...