Only very rarely does a series succeed in creating an atmosphere and style that are difficult to liken to anything else. This series exudes bizarreness, darkness, and the mustiness of decades-old, neglected corners of a decaying house full of inhabitants with twisted characters, corroded by invisible evil. Sticky…

The comparison between Candy and Love & Death is absolutely fantastic. Two miniseries based on the same true crime case filmed around the same time for different networks. Love & Death is a more charming, entertaining HBO drama with attractive actors and a grand courtroom atmosphere in the style of David E.…

The development of the Batwoman series is truly intriguing. The first season emerged at a time when the Arrowverse was expanding into unprecedented dimensions. The solo "Batwoman" series had a great reputation among readers after 2011, but the fundamental problem was that its comic book depiction was geared towards…

The predecessor of Monster High. In its time, Hanna-Barbera explored the possibilities of stories about teenage monsters alongside Scooby in specials like Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, but the standalone Gravedale High unfortunately only got one season. It all revolved around the character of a teacher at a spooky…

This marks the third adaptation of a true-crime story from a small Texas town. While Wylie has since grown to a city with 57,526 residents, at the time of the case, it had only 3,152 inhabitants. The period atmosphere of the series reflects this fact, portraying a small community where everyone knows each other within…

The Science of Sleep may not have captured my imagination as much as Michel Gondry's previous film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but I was once again intoxicated by the incredible imagination of the director and screenwriter in one. Gael Garcia Bernal is convincing in his role full of infantile yet lewd…

I didn't, and probably never will, fully understand. After the completely direct and purposefully comprehensible Elephant Man, I saw David Lynch's second feature film, which completely breaks boundaries in terms of the level of comprehensibility. The first two-thirds were somewhat interpretable, but the last twenty…

Condition: Critical was supposed to be Kevin Sorbo's first series, but it remained only a pilot. The reasons are now clear in hindsight; there were already too many medical dramas. Then, his attempt at Superman didn't work out, and eventually, he became Hercules.

The Fall Guy is pure cinematic entertainment. The concept is based on the eponymous 80s series, so today's film nostalgically nods to the aesthetics of that time. The film within the film that the crew is shooting seems straight out of the era's sci-fi Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn. Nonetheless, today's…

This is just one of many entries on the long list of adaptations by L. Frank Baum, and it's not such a shame that it didn't work out. I can imagine countless other series that could have been great, but the pilot didn't succeed. The project closest to that one is the miniseries Tin Man and the series Once Upon a Time.