Glen Weldon appears in the following:
Damned If You Do: Hulu's Less-Than-Marvelous 'Helstrom'
Friday, October 16, 2020
A surfeit of subplots and secondary characters — and a complicated production history — take a minor Marvel occult hero on a journey that turns out to be a dead end.
Creepy Kids, A Dark Mansion And '80s Fashion: 'The Haunting Of Bly Manor'
Friday, October 09, 2020
The follow-up to Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House series may not be as spooky, but it does manage to wrap up its story in a more satisfying manner.
FOX's 'NeXt' Is Pretty Chill For A Techno-Thriller
Tuesday, October 06, 2020
A tech CEO (John Slattery) blows the whistle on his own in A.I., which has gained sentience and set out to destroy the human race in FOX's agreeably cheesy techno-thriller.
'The Boys In The Band': Raging Gracefully
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Netflix's adaptation of Mart Crowley's 1968 play about a gay birthday party that goes off the rails features hard liquor, sharp tongues and broad types.
NPR's Fall TV Preview: 23 Suggestions For What To Watch Next
Monday, September 28, 2020
It feels like a minor miracle that there are so many high-quality shows coming to the small screen this season. Four NPR critics share their picks to keep you entertained during a challenging year.
Amazon's Violent, Cynical 'Utopia' Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Friday, September 25, 2020
The US adaptation of a 2013-14 British series about comic book nerds attempting to save the world from a viral pandemic dials back the humor and cranks up the violence.
In The Lively 'Enola Holmes,' Sherlock's Little Sister Goes Sleuthing
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
This bright and breezy Netflix adaptation of a YA novel finds Millie Bobby Brown starring as the brilliant, fourth-wall-busting little sister of Sherlock Holmes.
In Teen Drama 'We Are Who We Are,' We're Still Figuring Out Who We Are
Monday, September 14, 2020
Director Luca Guadagnino brings his searching, emotionally intimate sensibility to HBO with this series about two American kids on a military base in Italy.
In 'I'm Thinking Of Ending Things,' A Couple Gets Stuck In A Dreamlike Limbo
Friday, September 04, 2020
In writer/director Charlie Kaufman's latest, a couple spouts pat, pseudo-intellectual bromides. But stay with it — because that's a clue to what's really going on in this tense, surprising film.
In Hanawalt's 'I Want You,' Youthful Yearnings And Anthropomorphic Anxieties
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Before working in TV animation (Bojack Horseman, Tuca & Bertie), Lisa Hanawalt chronicled her obsessions in a funny, filthy minicomic series that's been reprinted — with a wry update.
'Lovecraft Country': Facing Monsters —And A Monstrous History
Sunday, August 16, 2020
HBO's new dark fantasy series serves up satisfyingly pulpy thrills even as it examines the enduring legacy of slavery through a prism of science-fiction and horror.
With 'Star Trek: Lower Decks,' A Venerable Franchise Loosens Up
Thursday, August 06, 2020
The animated series spoofs Trek with in-jokes and easter eggs and even if the gags aren't yet firing on all nacelles, the premise — Starfleet's D-listers — holds promise.
'She Dies Tomorrow' Is A Mood
Friday, July 31, 2020
Writer/director Amy Seimetz's darkly, darkly comic meditation on the contagious nature of anxiety and paranoia plays with horror conventions while refusing to embrace the genre's pulpy pleasures.
Showtime's 'The Go-Go's' Documentary Breaks The Seal
Friday, July 31, 2020
A new documentary chronicling the formation, rise and break-up of the iconic group hits all the familiar Behind the Music beats, but does so with a bracing, clear-eyed candor.
'The Sandman': Landmark Comic Series Gets A Rigidly Faithful Audio Drama Adaptation
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Neil Gaiman's impossible-to-adapt dark fantasy series has now been adapted, albeit into a medium no one could've predicted: a ten-hour-long audio drama, featuring a celebrity voice cast.
World War II Naval Drama 'Greyhound' Charts A Trim, Efficient Course
Friday, July 10, 2020
Tom Hanks stars in, and wrote the screenplay for, this familiar but effective tale of a Navy captain leading a convoy of merchants ships through U-boat-infested seas.
'Search Party' Season 3: Jerks Brought To Justice
Thursday, June 25, 2020
The darkly comic series about four entitled New Yorkers striving to cover up a murder returns for a third season, now on HBO Max.
Hovering In The Closet Doorway: 'Love, Victor'
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
The makers of 2018's inoffensive Love, Simon center this Hulu series on a Latinx teen from a conservative, working-class family, but otherwise recapitulate the film's strengths — and weaknesses.
'Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts' Returns, Weirder And Warmer Than Ever
Friday, June 12, 2020
Netflix's post-apocalyptic animated series about a girl and her friends in a world of giant mutant animals is so colorful and sunny it makes the end of the world look ... kinda fun.
HBO Max's Original Series: A Guide For The Perplexed
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The new streaming service launches with a handful of original series, featuring ballroom culture, Anna Kendrick, Elmo and crafting. We take a look at what's on offer.