Category: TV Reviews

Second Look: Friends Season 5, Episode 22 – “The One with Joey’s Big Break”

The penultimate episode of Friends’ fifth season hides a stellar Joey plot behind two mediocre stories.

Frank Castle returns in a pointless, indulgent one-off special that fails to do anything but imitate the decade-old series it sprung from.

Daredevil: Born Again’s many flaws are on full display in an anemic, underwhelmingly thin season finale.

Daredevil: Born Again’s penultimate sophomore episode is a disappointing retread of past ideas.

Daredevil: Born Again comes crashing back to earth with the disappointing, overstuffed “Requiem”.

Netflix’s return to the world of Hawkins (in animated form this time) is a flat, soulless recreation of the original’s themes and stories.

The two halves of Daredevil: Born Again’s identity. past and present. collide in the introspective, uneven “The Grand Design”.

Daredevil; Born Again rehashes old storylines and themes to mixed effect in the loud, bloody “Gloves Off”.

Daredevil: Born Again stumbles with the underwhelming “The Scales and the Sword”.

Even a strong thematic foundation, like the one in “Shoot the Moon”, crumbles under Born Again’s cumbersome, overstuffed plot.