Rowan Kaiser's posts

“I take everything I’m feeling, everything that matters to me. I push all of it into my fist. And I fight for it.”

I’m not sure if there’s a particular term for the type of television that involves multiple point-of-view-characters…

Episodic construction can tell a great deal about a TV show. What does Sense8 think is important? What does it build…

As Sense8 moves toward its plot’s conclusion, by necessity, it also moves toward another important goal. This is a…

Five episodes in, Sense8’s structure has become clear. It’s eight intercut, localized, relatively generic short…

The chief lesson learned from Defiance’s third-season premiere: this show might have finally decided to solve its…

Amanita is the perfect girlfriend. When we meet her, she’s having what appears to be great sex. She follows this up…

Each episode of Sense8 has served a purpose so far. The first introduced the characters, the second, how the show’s…

By the end of its second episode, Sense8 has started to make sense. Not in plot terms—the mystery is still vague,…

Discussing Sense8 on an episodic level demands discussion of its production and form. After a single episode, there…

Star Wars fans are notoriously demanding from the franchise they love and, in many ways, feel ownership of, after…

Going to live shows can be amazing, but it’s rare that a live version of a song is better than whatever a particular…

Not all of our writers’ picks could make the final list of the best sitcom episodes of the last 25 years. Some…

The television sitcom underwent a renaissance in the mid-to-late 1980s, shocked back to life by the likes of Cheers, …

Rocksteady Studios’ Arkham games have been one of the great pleasures in recent gaming. Comic-book based games that…

“Hurricane Neddy” (originally aired 12/29/1996)

Kingsman’s confetti explosions aren’t the only times heads have more than rolled. Here are 15 different ways we’ve…

Who’s got the time? Here’s 17 songs about specific lengths of time listed from shortest to longest.

Numerous bands and singer-songwriters throughout the years have made concept albums based entirely around a certain…

There is no greater proof of the effectiveness of Babylon 5’s five-year story than its ending. Watching “Sleeping In…