Brian Tallerico

CFCA President - Editor https://t.co/eBVEIu0Ol3 - Bylines Vulture, The Playlist, NYT, AV Club, elsewhere - Producer CCFF - Father of 3 Boys - Not Vince Gilligan

Articles

Reacher continues its annoying slow burn in "L.A. Story"

Mar 20, 2025 | avclub.com | Brian Tallerico

The third season of Reacher is finally almost over after what’s felt like more of a slow burn to an explosive finale than the past two rounds of episodes. It’s not that there has been no action at all the last few weeks, but even the most diehard fans would admit that the dialogue has been circling the same drains for a few episodes now. Reacher wants vengeance; Duffy wants to save Teresa; Beck wants to protect his kid; Quinn wants to scorch the earth.
A family unravels in the devastating Netflix miniseries Adolescence

Mar 10, 2025 | avclub.com | Brian Tallerico

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A family unravels in the devastating Netflix miniseries Adolescence

Mar 10, 2025 | yahoo.com | Brian Tallerico

Netflix subscribers will be drawn to Adolescence for its hook, a formal choice that gives the show a different energy from similar domestic dramas or splashy crime thrillers. Each of the four hours of this harrowing study of the ripple effects of an act of violence unfurls in a single unbroken shot. The 1917 approach to trauma intensifies the bone-deep emotion of the piece by not allowing either the performers or viewers the release that comes with a cut.
Reacher heads into the season's back half with more table setting

Mar 6, 2025 | avclub.com | Brian Tallerico

Does it feel like the writers of Reacher are still doing a bit of table setting? Is anyone else getting hungry? We need a meal! Yes, the fifth episode of this third season did squash a couple of expendable characters—someone from the DEA and a member of the Beck house staff who turned out to be an undercover ATF agent—but those losses are really just in service of an extremely transitional episode that takes us from last week’s cliffhanger to another promise of pending action.
Reacher heads into the season's back half with more table setting

Mar 6, 2025 | yahoo.com | Brian Tallerico

Does it feel like the writers of Reacher are still doing a bit of table setting? Is anyone else getting hungry? We need a meal! Yes, the fifth episode of this third season did squash a couple of expendable characters—someone from the DEA and a member of the Beck house staff who turned out to be an undercover ATF agent—but those losses are really just in service of an extremely transitional episode that takes us from last week’s cliffhanger to another promise of pending action.
Reacher sets the season’s stakes in a brutal, flashback-heavy episode

Feb 27, 2025 | avclub.com | Brian Tallerico

Who exactly is Francis Xavier Quinn, the big bad of the third season of Prime Video’s Reacher? Seen only in glimpses in the three-part premiere, the villain of this year’s story was only a threat. But we learn a lot more about the depth of his evil and how Reacher nearly stopped him in this fourth episode, one that’s almost entirely flashbacks. The tragic tale of Dominique Kohl plays out in this chapter, one that takes a structure of the first two seasons and kind of shifts it.
Reacher sets the season’s stakes in a brutal, flashback-heavy episode

Feb 26, 2025 | yahoo.com | Brian Tallerico

Who exactly is Francis Xavier Quinn, the big bad of the third season of Prime Video’s Reacher? Seen only in glimpses in the three-part premiere, the villain of this year’s story was only a threat. But we learn a lot more about the depth of his evil and how Reacher nearly stopped him in this fourth episode, one that’s almost entirely flashbacks. The tragic tale of Dominique Kohl plays out in this chapter, one that takes a structure of the first two seasons and kind of shifts it.
The Traitors created something new by stealing the best bits from past reality shows

Feb 25, 2025 | yahoo.com | Brian Tallerico

Other than a few brief successful variations on familiar themes, the reality-competition TV market hadn’t really seen a true breakthrough hit in a generation. Think about the shows that people still truly watch: Survivor debuted in 2000; MTV’s The Challenge started in 1998; the U.S. version of Big Brother turns 25 this year; The Amazing Race got going in 2001; Top Chef began cooking in 2006; and the baby of the bunch might be RuPaul’s Drag Race, which premiered 16 years ago. And then crickets.
Reacher returns with a trio of effective, ass-kicking episodes

Feb 20, 2025 | avclub.com | Brian Tallerico

Everyone’s favorite dad show is back, complete with bursts of earned violence, strong moral backbone, and nicely timed Gen X needle drops. By now, the formula for Prime Video’s hit Reacher is pretty well-established. Streaming media’s darling drifter wanders into another violent dilemma, from which he has to extricate himself and those he deems worth saving.
Adultos juzgando a niños

Feb 15, 2025 | ecartelera.com | Brian Tallerico

6,5 Sin spoilers "Si no nos miras desde arriba, si no nos miras desde abajo, si nos miras justo en el centro, verás que estamos bien" Esta explicación, realizada por la protagonista principal de la película, respecto a la relación de ella, su marido murió en un accidente, y su hijo pequeño, seis años, acusado de un acto muy grave de agresión en el colegio ,nos desvela, en gran parte, el contenido de una película en la que ciertos adultos, podridos por el odio de sucesos acaecidos entre ellos,...