The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (BBC TV Series, 1981) Review
May 11, 2026
Peter Jones as the Book, Douglas Adams's voice intact, and the Vogon poetry torture. Dated, charming, better than the movie.
1980sMay 11, 2026
Peter Jones as the Book, Douglas Adams's voice intact, and the Vogon poetry torture. Dated, charming, better than the movie.
Film SeriesMay 10, 2026
Season 2 earned higher critic scores than Season 1 and got worse. The cyber attack disaster, the institutional collapse, the cowardice.
Film SeriesMay 10, 2026
Critics gave The Pitt Season 1 a 96% score. Because the show ran out of reasons to watch it at full speed.
AmbiguityMarch 21, 2026
Westworld Season 1 is near-perfect science fiction television. The other three seasons are a masterclass in how prestige TV destroys itself.
LonelinessMarch 20, 2026
The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells' series adapted for Apple TV+, follows a SecUnit: a part-human, part-machine construct that has quietly hacked its own governor module and would prefer to watch serialized television than interact with the humans it's contracted to…
Class AllegoryMarch 20, 2026
By the standards that matter, world building, political complexity, character depth, physical realism, sustained narrative tension, nothing else in the genre comes close. Then Amazon bought it, and the same show with largely the same cast and creative team produced…
1980sMarch 20, 2026
The Running Man is a better idea than film. The concept, a death sport television show operating as the primary mechanism of social control in a dystopia.
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