Leila Hamm 6/6/26 Leila Hamm 6/6/26

The Power Fantasy #6-8 (part one)

His reasoning might have been motivated, but Jackie Magus' conclusion was right. The motives of such an alien god should have never been trusted.

Leila Hamm 6/6/26 Leila Hamm 6/6/26

Hard-Earned Wisdom (Epic final analysis)

The wisdom that Odysseus was taught when he went off to war, and the wisdom that Telemachus learned by seeing what the war did to his father, cannot coexist. One of them has to be destroyed.

Leila Hamm 6/2/26 Leila Hamm 6/2/26

Epic: the Musical: the actual end this time seriously!

In any case, the way her voice gets higher, and higher, and higher, and then even higher in her final chain of "waiiiiiitiiiiiings" is the craziest vocal feat in this whole show. Seriously, they might have just saved the best for last as far as voice talent goes.

Leila Hamm 6/2/26 Leila Hamm 6/2/26

Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (the continupocalypse)

Why is Telemachus even in this story?

Leila Hamm 5/31/26 Leila Hamm 5/31/26

Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (continued moster than even the mostest)

If you don't spit it out soon, all that water will destroy you.

Leila Hamm 5/31/26 Leila Hamm 5/31/26

Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (continued the mostest)

For the most part, Epic plays its allegory for war trauma in pretty abstract forms, rather than a direct one-to-one "Odysseus doing thing X is supposed to represent real world veterans doing thing Y." Calypso is an exception. She's drugs. She's just drug addiction.

Leila Hamm 5/28/26 Leila Hamm 5/28/26

Girls' Last Tour E1-2: "Starry Sky; War" and "Bath; Journal; Laundry" (part two)

Are they actually a pair of ghosts, haunting the lifeless ruins of their old city?

Leila Hamm 5/25/26 Leila Hamm 5/25/26

Girls' Last Tour E1-2: "Starry Sky; War" and "Bath; Journal; Laundry" (part one)

Post-apocalyptic slice-of-life is an increasingly prevalent little subgenre.

Leila Hamm 5/23/26 Leila Hamm 5/23/26

All of Us Are Dead S1E4

There's no freedom being brought about by the crushing. Just even more crushing.

Leila Hamm 5/22/26 Leila Hamm 5/22/26

All of Us Are Dead S1E3

It's almost like its own little French Surrealist-inspired artfilm intercut with the rest of the episode.

Leila Hamm 5/21/26 Leila Hamm 5/21/26

All of Us Are Dead S1E2

That fortification, itself, proves to be part of a vicious cycle.

Leila Hamm 5/21/26 Leila Hamm 5/21/26

All of Us Are Dead S1E1

"All of Us Are Dead" isn't subtle in what it's allegorizing with it's zombies. To the point where it's honestly not even really allegory at all.

Leila Hamm 5/20/26 Leila Hamm 5/20/26

The Owl House S2E15-17: "Them's the Breaks, Kid," "Hollow Mind," and "Edge of the World" (continued more)

Too bad the only "answers" he can give at this point are hidden glyph-magic lessons encoded in weather events.

Leila Hamm 5/20/26 Leila Hamm 5/20/26

The Owl House S2E15-17: "Them's the Breaks, Kid," "Hollow Mind," and "Edge of the World" (continued)

This episode does two things. One is getting Luz and Hunter the information they need to make the next part of the plot happen. Which it does an annoyingly hamfisted, but technically sufficient, job of. The other is being a character study of Phillip Wittebane, and at that it does far better.

Leila Hamm 5/20/26 Leila Hamm 5/20/26

The Owl House S2E15-17: "Them's the Breaks, Kid," "Hollow Mind," and "Edge of the World"

It's honestly pretty prescient for a 2022 release. The trends were obviously already pointing in this direction, sure, but Tara's portrayal here is much more spot-on satire of the second Trump presidency than it is of the first.

Leila Hamm 5/19/26 Leila Hamm 5/19/26

Gaslight District (pilot)

I'm well aware that pilots - especially indy studio pilots - tend to be much weaker and more kludged together than the shows that ensue. I think that that's the case for this one. I hope it is. Because, while there's a lot that interested me in this pilot, there are also a couple of things that rendered it nearly unwatchable.