If there was one character from The Office I never expected to see wandering into another workplace documentary, it was Oscar Martinez. Not because Oscar doesn’t belong in a workplace comedy — honestly, he might be one of the best characters to carry one — but because he always seemed far too sensible to volunteer…
If you found The Paper (or Novine, as the series is known in Croatia) through Netflix and thought the first season was already cynical enough, season 2 has a very clear answer: things get nastier when the newsroom stops being the center of the battlefield and politics takes over. There is one detail worth clearing…
If you told me a few years ago that I would get genuinely excited about another workplace comedy set in the world of The Office, I probably would have rolled my eyes. That show is one of those rare sitcoms that feels impossible to recreate. You can copy the mockumentary format, throw a bunch of…
There is a moment in The Rivals of Amziah King when the movie stops being the film you thought you were watching. At first, Andrew Patterson’s neo-Western feels almost gentle. You have Matthew McConaughey wandering through rural Oklahoma, bluegrass drifting through the soundtrack, bees humming around wooden hives, and a community held together by one…
There are movies that change genres gradually, giving you plenty of warning. Then there is The Rivals of Amziah King, which basically looks you in the eye, lets a bluegrass tune play, hands you a jar of honey, and then kicks the door open to a crime thriller. Honestly? I loved the nerve of it….
There are movies that advertise exactly what they are from the first trailer. Then there are movies like The Rivals of Amziah King, which seem to change shape every time you think you have figured them out. Andrew Patterson’s second feature after The Vast of Night takes a seemingly modest subject — beekeeping in rural…
There’s something wonderfully ridiculous about Chad Powers. On the surface, it’s a sports comedy about a washed-up quarterback putting on a ridiculous disguise and trying to sneak his way back into college football. But the longer I watched, the more I felt like the wigs, fake mustache, and exaggerated Southern accent were almost a distraction…
If you watched Chad Powers and found yourself wondering whether the South Georgia Catfish actually exist, I honestly can’t blame you. The show pulls off something that sports comedies rarely manage: it makes a completely fictional college football program feel like a team you somehow forgot to hear about. The uniforms look right. The stadium…
If you told me a few years ago that one of the funniest sports comedies on television would revolve around a disgraced quarterback hiding under a terrible wig, fake teeth, prosthetic skin, and an aggressively Southern accent, I probably would have laughed. And yet here we are. Hulu’s Chad Powers has turned one of the…
There is something wonderfully ridiculous about watching Glen Powell, one of Hollywood’s most recognizable leading men, walk onto a football field looking like somebody’s weird cousin who somehow wandered into a college sports drama. That is exactly why the Chad Powers transformation works. The Hulu sports comedy could have taken the easy route and turned…
There are movies that fit neatly into a genre, and then there are movies like The Rivals of Amziah King, which seem determined to make the viewer guess what they are watching every twenty minutes. Andrew Patterson’s follow-up to The Vast of Night starts with the deceptively cozy atmosphere of a rural Oklahoma community. There…
Matthew McConaughey the beekeeper. Kurt Russell as a ruthless agricultural kingpin. Live bees. Mandolins. Rural Oklahoma. A revenge story that suddenly decides it wants to become something much stranger. That is basically the elevator pitch for The Rivals of Amziah King, and honestly, I’m glad nobody tried to make it sound more normal. After spending…