In one of the most devastatingly beautiful, heart-achingly optimistic endings of television in ages, HBO’s Station Eleven debuted its final episode last week, rounding out a tremendous, all-timer season of television. While bidding farewell to Kirsten (Mackenzie Davis & Matilda…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth Season 3 Finale
That’s more like it. Last week, we saw a marked improvement in The Last Man on Earth following a series of uninspired episodes with state plots. For this week’s season finale, the show has turned in two of its best episodes…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×16): “The Big Day”
After painting itself into a corner over the second half of the season, The Last Man on Earth finally returns to a semblance of its former quality with “The Big Day”, and all the show had to do was time-skip six…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×15): “Name 20 Picnics…Now!”
Over the past few episodes, The Last Man on Earth has taken a turn for the worse. The scripts have been mediocre or outright bad due to questionable plot choices that have turned the show’s vivid characters into pale caricatures.…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×14): “Point Person Knows Best”
This week’s episode of The Last Man on Earth is an improvement over the pointless “Find This Thing We Need To”, but only in that it deserves the right to exist as a complete episode of a network situation comedy. This does…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×13): “Find This Thing We Need To”
The worst episode of The Last Man on Earth since its nadir in the middle of the first season isn’t a result of lame humor or cliched writing, but from the epic pointlessness of the whole affair. “Find This Thing We Need…
TV Review: The Last Man on Earth (3×12): “Hair of the Dog”
This week’s episode of The Last Man on Earth has two solid plots, but neither has a satisfactory ending. It feels like another instance of the show having an episode that does not stand on its own and needs a second…