David Harbour

Bad movies are fun when they’re in on the joke, but “Violent Night” can’t square tinsel-toned earnestness with insatiable bloodlust.

So much of the finale’s excellence lies not with its stunning visuals or referential slasher style, but with its most intimate scenes.

It’s a fitting farewell to Natasha Romanoff, and though it’s well overdue, “Black Widow,” in all its epic scale and strong performances, is worth the wait. 

After watching "Stranger Things," I got to thinking about the other sci-fi shows I’ve watched on Netflix, and here are the ones that come to mind!

Yet behind that desire for the simplicity of the past are hidden political implications. With every era comes the political context behind it — the media we elect to intake may reflect a sense of rose-tinted denial about bygone days.

The Duffer brothers have stuck to their nostalgia-pandering, sci-fi meets Stephen King template. And though it should be tiresome, it isn’t. 

Where the del Toro films were empathetic, slowly building a rapport between characters, this “Hellboy” film is hollow, with little development to be found in between bad, bad jokes and eye-gouging fight scenes.

We are presently in a golden age of television. It would be nearly impossible for one person to sort through all of the television at our fingertips and decide what is or isn’t the best. This is where the Emmy Awards come in.

Whether on our laptops or in our living rooms, television has always been a space of escape, in which our ideologies are reflected back to us.

The pairing off of the characters in these unexpected ways is the best part of “Stranger Things 2.”