The intersection of late capitalism and late Peak TV has created a prophet of people who are usually fixated on profits. It would be borderline insanity if Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Discovery, Amazon, and Apple sent emails to shareholders with the subject line “The end is near” every week. But while the television industry has…
If you liked James Cameron’s 1994 smash True Lies — an effort to outperform the James Bond movies of that era — you’ll find it in all of its jaw-dropping action sets — perhaps CBS’s True Lies. Rise’ shouldn’t be thought to have anything to do with it. that. If you don’t like James Cameron’s…
His first series since Servant on Apple TV+, Tony Basgallop’s Amazon show The Consultant confirms his status as a writer who isn’t interested in picking lanes. Like the Servant, the Consultant is part of an escalating chamber of spookiness — part horror, part satire — that can sometimes get under your skin and sometimes make…
