Category: Directed by Alex Garcia Lopez

  • Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e15 – Doctor Cerberus’ House of Horror

    I was ready to love this episode. I wanted to love this episode. Ross Maxwell’s one of the names I like seeing on the writing credit. But this episode is a big whiff. Alex Garcia Lopez’s direction not being good is one of the problems. The other one is concept really not paying off. It…

  • The Witcher (2019) s01e04 – Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials

    Is tricking a viewer with time periods called a Westworlding it yet? “The Witcher” does a soft Westworld this episode; initially I thought they were just cheap with the CGI establishing shots—Henry Cavill and returning sidekick Joey Batey go to a royal wedding auction (we get a little about the gender politics, but not a…

  • The Witcher (2019) s01e03 – Betrayer Moon

    I didn’t even realize Freya Allan’s princess on the run character was missing from the episode until she shows up for the cliffhanger setup. Because Anya Chalotra’s B plot is so compelling; also Henry Cavill’s A plot. The monster plot is decent this episode. But Chalotra’s story is all about her getting to her “enchantment,”…