The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/arts/television/page/3/)
Although there’s nothing new about young adults feeling like main characters and consuming classic rock, Euphoria’s soundtrack stands out by contrasting old sounds with contemporary imagery and themes.
I certainly believe that television should be challenging and make us think, but I also believe that the primary purposes of television should be entertainment and amusement. When a show decides to be too challenging, like ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’, it often has to sacrifice amusement. “Euphoria” knew how to walk the line perfectly, and Season One proves that.
The series filled its allotted eight episode run with the right blend of comedy, action and nods to the original source material.
While most zombie films and shows seem to express some sort of commentary on social issues or ethical dilemmas, ‘All of Us Are Dead’ ends unceremoniously with no clear direction or message.
What Season Two does best is move away from the clichés of the previous season to more thought-provoking portrayals of cultural differences.
“Arcane” is seminal in its resounding contribution to mature animated series, a genre lamentably neglected by the Western world. It is a luminary in its field and will undoubtedly prompt studios to attempt to replicate its “formula,” which will likely yield a slew of soulless cashgrabs that fail to recreate the show’s methodical writing.
It begins with a lackluster episode, “Heads It’s Me,” a minefield of forced humor and a casual end to the coup against Peter that occupied the whole of the last season. It tries to tie up the loose threads of the far more compelling finale that preceded it. On average, however, the writing does improve gradually, as Catherine and her court adjust to her new reign and her pregnancy. Intrigue is layered upon intrigue, ambitions and appalling mistakes rising like the smoke from poisonous candles Catherine receives for her attempts at diplomacy. At times sickening, at others charming, The Great’s second season is a woozy, erratic take on similar themes to its first: idealism, desire and the price of power.
The complexity of Joe and Love and the multi-faceted dimensions of their character is what makes the show so intriguing and perplexing.
While many view the present as the golden era of the global television industry, there’s an eerie colonial undertone to Netflix’s reshaping of the global television industry.
Despite its imperfections, the third season of Sex Education is well worth the watch. It made me laugh out loud, cry and examine my own identity and those around me.