REVIEW: NBC’s “Trial and Error”

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Michael Cook

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Last night, NBC aired the last two episodes of the first season of its new comedy mockumentary Trial and Error. Starring John Lithgow, Nicholas D’Agosto, Jayma Mays, Krista Rodriguez, Steven Boyer, and Sherri Shepherd, Trial and Error told the story of the trial of Larry Henderson (Lithgow), a man from East Peck, South Carolina, accused of killing his wife, Margaret. The season followed lawyer Josh Segal (D’Agosto) and his team (Boyer and Shepherd) as they tried to defend Larry against the accusations made by prosecutor Carol Anne Keane (Mays). Continue reading →

REVIEW: Dimension 404 – “BOB”

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Michael Cook

BOB gets one last Christmas wish

I wasn’t planning on reviewing any more episodes of this show until the season had finished, but I just watched today’s new episode, BOB, and I had to review it. It’s such a sweet, moving episode, I was actually brought to tears by the end of it. It took five episodes, but Dimension 404 has definitely managed to reach its full potential. Per Hulu’s website: “As a holiday terror threat looms large, an Army psychologist races against the clock to treat the strangest patient of her career – and the only one who can save Christmas – BOB, a depressed NSA supercomputer made entirely of human flesh.” Continue reading →

REVIEW: Doctor Who S10E01 – The Pilot (Spoilers)

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Michael Cook

The Doctor and Bill

The new season of Doctor Who premiered today with an episode called “The Pilot”, directed by Laurence Gough and written by showrunner Steven Moffat. This episode begins Peter Capaldi’s final season as the Doctor (and Moffat’s as showrunner) and introduces Pearl Mackie as new companion Bill Potts. From the BBC Website: in this episode, two worlds collide when the Doctor meets Bill, and a chance encounter with a girl with a star in her eye leads to a terrifying chase across time and space. Bill’s mind is opened to a universe that is bigger and more exciting than she could possibly have imagined. But who is the Doctor, and what is his secret mission on Earth?

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REVIEW: MST3K Season 11 (and a detailed reaction to the Host Segments)

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Michael Cook

mst3k the return

Mystery Science Theater 3000 has finally returned to our screens! Today, Netflix debuted the new season of MST3K subtitled The Return. In celebration of the new episodes, I’ll be reviewing the host segments of each episode of the season! Obviously, there will be spoilers ahead for the season, so don’t read this if you don’t want the Host Segments spoiled for you!

As this will end up being a long post, let me start off by talking about my impressions of the season as a whole. Continue reading →

REVIEW: MST3K – Experiment 1101

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Michael Cook

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return is the continuation of the cult favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000, a show that lampooned cheesy B-movies and aired for 10 seasons on Comedy Central and SciFi (Now SyFy). The reboot follows the same premise as the original: two mad scientists, Kinga Forrester (Felicia Day), daughter of Dr. Clayton Forrester, and TV’s Son of TV’s Frank (Patton Oswalt) capture a young worker from Gizmonic Institute, Jonah Heston (Jonah Ray) and force him to watch cheesy movies in order to find the perfect movie for them to take over the world with. To keep his sanity, Jonah enlists the help of some robots on the Satellite of Love, Tom Servo (Baron Vaughn) and Crow T Robot (Hampton Yount), to riff the movies with him.

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REVIEW: Hulu’s “Dimension 404”

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Michael Cook

Hulu’s newest series, Dimension 404, is a science fiction anthology series – in the vein of classics like The Twilight Zone and the more recent Black Mirror – with a comedic edge. It would be easy to write this show off as a modernized ripoff of The Twilight Zone, but that’s doing Dimension 404 a disservice.

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New American Gods Trailer

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Michael Cook

STARZ has released a new trailer for the upcoming American Gods TV series and boy does it look good.

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Welcome!

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Michael Cook

Welcome to Thoroughly Modern Reviewer! This is a blog where I, Michael, will review the various things I watch and read and listen to. For the first few posts, I’m going to be importing reviews I’ve already written for other websites so I can build up a bit of a portfolio as to how my reviews for this website will go.

Until then,
Michael