Christine Kelley

I would have liked True Detective: Night Country more if somebody had spoiled the ending for me earlier. To be clear, I’m about to spoil the ending: Jodie Foster and Kali Reis’ characters discover that Indigenous women have executed a group of murderous scientists who’ve conspired to destroy Alaska’

Sometimes life and art sit down together for an intense meeting that quickly devolves into a tense, long-awaited hate fuck. They will agree on exactly one matter, which they will force onto the world stage, drawing out the most agonizing, subconscious fears of the public. They will force the public

Sorry for the delay. I've been dealing with an extended personal emergency. The pre-season finale is often an interesting one. Game of Thrones tended to used it as The Spectacular Episode Where Shit Goes Down before a more understated season finale. Seeing how Game of Thrones is (for better or worse

“Partings” is The Rings of Power settling into a status quo. Characters in different locations face down interlocked threats, all of them vaguely pointing to Sauron, while their interpersonal relationships are threatened by Sauron’s return. Some subplots, like Durin and Elrond’s relationship, work q

After the crescendoing failure of “Adar,” The Rings of Power vaguely rights itself with this week’s “The Great Wave.” This episode actually had some themes, and a plot structure, and even a sense of momentum propelled by character moments. I’m vaguely shocked to report this after declaring The Rings

In its second week, The Rings of Power seems to settle into whatever flavor of awful it’s fucked to be. It’s a 69-minute slog that infuriatingly avoids being “nice,” dragging along on the assumption that elves and hobbits are inherently dramatically compelling, and accidentally breaking into three-m

There are margins of error for how bad Jeff Bezos’ The Silmarillion could be. Those margins widen when you factor in the two unknown Mormon showrunners from McLean, Virginia, the most corrupt city in Northern Virginia. The Rings of Power is further hampered by its need to recall the audience’s memor

My friend Will Shaw told me I had to start this review with "Obi-Wan said 'hello there', so 10/10, no notes." And he's right. Obi-Wan does enigmatically say "hello there" to a 10-year-old Luke Skywalker. By that metric, this show passes with flying colors. Moments like this drive Obi-Wan Kenobi. The

There's something to the way this show keeps threatening to be interesting and then beats that impulse into submission. The show's instincts to tell a story about Obi-Wan's failures and his attempt to rectify them are solid. So is this show's non-allegorical take on the struggles of refugees. Reva,

To say this was better than most Star Wars movies isn't the compliment it sounds like, given that most Star Wars movies are The Phantom Menace or Solo or The Rise of Skywalker. It's still rough in the way a corporate streaming show with multiple creative visions is doomed to be. But Part III of Obi-

For a hastily rewritten spinoff show with more prestige than it deserves, Obi-Wan Kenobi is pretty good. It's tempting to write this off for succeeding on those standards, and I'm going to do that, but firstly let's be clear this is better than it should be. It looks good, it's well-acted, and under