Posts by Ryan Poynter

“Marco” ends the first season of ‘Better Call Saul’ with a whimper, not a bang. But the show is better off because of it.

A multi-million dollar class-action lawsuit? A ‘Game of Thrones’-level brotherly betrayal? Shit’s getting serious with ‘Better Call Saul.’

Chuck had a pretty good showing in this week’s episode of ‘Better Call Saul’ — at least by his standards.

Last week’s episode: a collection of everything I don’t like about this television show. This week’s episode: an exact representation of everything I love.

The fourth episode of ‘Better Call Saul’ ruins some classic Saul-as-master-manipulator moments with awkward side characters and a particularly weird bit involving the Space Blanket.

‘Better Call Saul’ hits a narrative wall in its third episode, relying on cheap crime show devices and cheaper ‘Breaking Bad’ callbacks. But it’s not all bad.

‘Better Call Saul’’s opening episodes rise above ‘Breaking Bad’ callbacks, solidifying Saul Goodman as a fascinating lead character.

Hookers? Shoot-outs? Awkward kisses? It all adds up to a feet-lickin’ bad time in 1975’s ‘Mitchell.’

When you create a film that loses in viewership to a sultry scene between reptile and footwear or the private endeavors of a lonely primate, you’ve chosen the wrong career.

This deadly episode is the best ‘Game of Thrones’ season finale to date.

‘Gigli’ is a glimpse into an alternate dimension where Ben Affleck is cool, J-Lo is talented, and jokes about the mentally-handicapped are funny.

The penultimate episode in ‘Game of Thrones’’ season four is very much cut from the same cloth as a fan-favorite from a couple years ago: season two’s ‘Blackwater.’

This week’s epic ‘Game of Thrones’ showed no mercy.

This week’s episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ is heavy, both in tone and in the surprising amount of content packed into the one hour they give us.

This week’s episode is filled with first-times for show-watchers. It’s the first time we see the city of Braavos in person, the first time Daenerys sits the throne acting as queen of Meereen (it’s not the Iron Throne, but I suppose it’s good practice), and the first time this season that we visit with Yara Greyjoy, the sister of Theon/Reek.

This week, a new king is crowned; Daenerys postpones her quest for the Seven Kingdoms; the men of the Night’s Watch assault Craster’s Keep, and there’s another wedding — except this time, no one dies.

WARNING: For the words are dark and full of spoilers… Season Four, Episode Four: “Oathkeeper” Written and Directed by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss This week’s episode felt more focused that what we saw last time. Instead of bouncing from person to person and place to place all across the known world, we got the […]

With each new episode of ‘Game of Thrones,’ I’m learning more not to ask if someone will die, but rather who will die, in what way, and how important that person has been thus far to the many story arcs both in Westeros and across the Narrow Sea.

FINALLY — a wedding worth celebrating. Season four of ‘Game of Thrones’ wastes no time in trimming down its large list of major characters.

This season opener is primarily exposition — a necessary reintroduction to a rather large cast of characters and a bit of catching up. There are a lot of subtle moments of brilliance (especially the opening and closing sequences), but mostly what we got is a solid precursor to whatever is planned for the rest of the season — which is exactly what we needed.