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TV by the Decade :: January 7•13

It was a pretty good week for new series premieres, with only two decades taking a break, and several series going on to long runs. 1953 had an unhistorical Western series based on a historical character that ran for three ...
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Night Swim is a tight thriller

Happy New Year! It's January and it's become a bit (stereo)typical that the first movie released in January is a movie the studio knows will flop, knows will get the harshest of critical reaction, so just dumps it on the ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #180 :: January 3•9

In the modern era, January is the month known as the 'cinematic dumping ground', a period where the studios drop what they know to be their least creatively successful films of the year. The first half of the century, though, ...
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What If…? :: Season 2 Review

I had mixed feelings about the first season of What If...?, which had some great episodes and some episodes that were quite the opposite. One of the well-known aspects of the comic versions of What If...? was that they usually ...
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TV by the Decade :: Dec 31•Jan 6

Happy New Year! Networks are rolling out a host of new series this week across the decades, with several popular, long-running shows making their debuts mostly in the first part of the past 70 years. 1954 gave us a long-running ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #179 :: December 27 to January 2

This week is the weird post-Christmas/pre-New Year week where most of the films released are barely noticed. The exception to this is 1933 which featured three films that have gone on to be classics, one introducing a pair of actors ...
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Rick and Morty :: Season 7 Review

The seventh season of Rick and Morty arrived with a lot of new baggage -- co-creator Justin Roiland and voice for Rick and Morty (along with others) had been let go due to quite serious allegations against him. He was ...
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TV by the Decade :: December 24•30

As we close out the year that ends in 3, only one daytime series made its debut this week, a classic game show -- not The Price Is Right -- that has had a long life across three different networks ...
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The Color Purple Review :: The Color Purple is an unapologetic movie musical

Hollywood seems to have a musical problem. They used to be huge moneymakers -- when adjusted for inflation, The Sound of Music made over two billion dollars, for example. They used to rake in the accolades -- 10 Best Picture ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #178 :: December 20•26

It's Christmas week at the movies with the studios bringing out all of their big guns to take advantage of the holiday season. Each decade has multiple new releases, many of which were recognized by the various awards organizations, and ...
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TV by the Decade :: December 17 • 23

Only four new programs had their premieres this week in just two decades -- two science-based series, and two Christmas specials that have not gone on to become holiday perennials. 1993 included a scientific series that was eventually hosted by ...
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