I promise I’m a good person, but I need to put this out there: I don’t like Mona. I know, I know, I’m the worst. But is there a point to her being around? Did we need a Scott Pilgrim reject, with all her manic pixie, adorkable energy, to flit around the Time Bureau? This isn’t a knock against actress Ramona Young, who’s doing the most with the very little she’s being given, but Legends is trying too hard to shoehorn her into the ensemble at the moment without giving us a clear reason why. Read More...
”The Lie” aspired to answer a question: Can Lost‘s new season 5 version of fragmented, time-toggling storytelling effectively sell an old fashioned Lost yarn built around a single character wrestling with a certain aspect of his or her past? The test subject for this experiment was Hurley. The emotional issue the show saddled him with was his profound guilt over lying about the Left Behinders still on the Island… wherever/whenever it may be. Read More...
With Lovely War, Julie Berry offers up an Aeneid for the 21st century. On a cold December night in 1942, Aphrodite and Ares are entrapped by Hephaestus in a swanky Manhattan hotel. There, the goddess of love spins a tale of war-torn romance in an effort to avoid facing judgment for her infidelities on Mount Olympus. She casts her eye back to 1917 to weave the stories of Hazel, an aspiring classical pianist; James, a British soldier days away from being shipped off to war; Aubrey, a Harlem-born ragtime genius and U. Read More...
