A franchise is a story asked to keep going after it finished. This tag collects reviews and essays on film and television franchises: what the first entry earned, and what the sequels spent.
AdaptationSeptember 11, 2026
Every remake and side-by-side contrast reviewed on this site, ranked. The ones that justified themselves, the ones that repeated the plot and lost the point, and the studio programme built on strip-mining a back catalogue.
EspionageSeptember 11, 2026
Every James Bond film ranked, with the rating each one carries in its own review. Casino Royale first, Die Another Day last, and a series that survives by periodically admitting it has gone wrong.
1990sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine rates 10 and above on the rewatch scale and is the best series the franchise has produced. It is also the most underrated rating in Trek history. A station instead of a ship, a military…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: Discovery rates minus 10 on the rewatch scale. Every episode across five seasons rates a 1 or less. It had fifty years of lore, a guaranteed audience and an unlimited budget, and it is a pile of shit…
2000sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: Enterprise rates 4 for its first two seasons and 8 for its last two. A completely mixed bag that spent two years not knowing what it was, committed to a serialized arc in season three, became the show…
2020sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: Lower Decks rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mediocre, and a good try. A genuinely clever premise, the most stable production in modern Star Trek, and a show whose comic style and comic content are…
2020sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: Picard rates 1 for its first two seasons and at most a 5 for its third. Awful from front to back. The first two have nothing in them worth defending, and the third, which almost everybody else rates…
2020sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: Prodigy carries no rating here because I have not watched it, and barely knew it existed. That turns out to be the point. Its second season holds a perfect hundred percent with critics and ninety-six with audiences, and…
2020sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy rates minus ten thousand on the rewatch scale. It is the worst thing I have ever watched, film or television, and that includes Battlefield Earth. Pure garbage. Horseshit. Something written by small children with crayons on…
2020sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds carries no rating here because I have not watched it. This page is an honest survey of what other people think, and the short version is that it is the best reviewed modern Star Trek,…
1970sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: The Animated Series rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Twenty-two episodes, atrocious Filmation animation, and writing good enough that it holds up anyway. The first Star Trek to win an Emmy, and the Emmy is…
1980sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: The Next Generation rates 6 to 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred and seventy-six episodes with a ceiling higher than almost any television of its era and a floor that includes the most embarrassing…
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