Television

The epic ends in a thrilling way in ‘TMNT’ Season 10 (1996)

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” goes out on a high note with Season 10 (1996, CBS) despite the fact that a brand-new writer, Jeffrey Scott, pens

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Wilson’s series takes a good golf swing, can’t quite ‘Stick’ it

“Stick” (Apple TV Plus) takes old generation-gap and coming-of-age issues and sometimes makes them as fresh as the dew at the morning’s first tee time.

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‘Slasher’ team gets back to gory basics with ‘Hell Motel’

The “Slasher” troupe delivered the most consistently gory TV horror from 2016-23, sometimes also adding in good mysteries, and stumbling only with Season 5, “Ripper.”

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Not the Dreggs: ‘TMNT’ reaches new heights in Season 9 (1995)

As “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” was dropping in the ratings in the age of “Power Rangers” and “Batman: The Animated Series,” it was stepping up

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Red sky at night, animators’ delight: A look at ‘TMNT’ Season 8 (1994)

By 1994, I was losing interest in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” If memory serves, I recorded it via VCR timer and labeled the tapes with

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‘Agatha Christie’s Marple’ Season 1 (2004-05) comes out of the garden gate swinging

“Agatha Christie’s Marple” Season 1 (2004-05) faced a daunting question: Why (other than money) remake adaptations that had already been done to fans’ pleasure in

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‘TMNT’ ‘Wises’ up for surprisingly strong Season 7 (1993, CBS)

In what seems like a conscious effort after the “European Vacation” sideseason (a.k.a. Season 7, part one), story editor and lead writer David Wise brings

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‘TMNT’ takes welcome ‘Vacation in Europe’ to start Season 7 (1993)

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ ” “Vacation in Europe” (1993) episodes have a mythic “lost episodes” quality in my mind. I was gradually losing interest in

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‘Rebecca’ (1997) is more faithful to du Maurier’s gothic tragedy

“Masterpiece Theatre” is a rather presumptuous premise, if you think about it, as the show (1967-2008) presented brand-new adaptations that may or may not be

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Better late than ‘Nevers’: The back half of Whedon’s show (2023) is actually good

If we never get another Joss Whedon project, the common view is that he went out ignominiously by departing “The Nevers” after Season 1A (2021,

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