Gerard Way’s and Gabriel Bá’s The Umbrella Academy is back with more fantastic musical covers and another entertaining, world-saving, time-traveling, even if it’s gotten a little redundant, adventure.
9 out of 12 Tamales
“The Umbrella Academy: Season 1”: One-Sentence Review
Time-travel escapades, comic-book comedy, and fragmented-family fun are well represented—and done—in Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy.
10.5 out of 12 Tamales
“The Old Guard”: One-Sentence Review
Charlize Theron’s acting and action chops muster enough oomph to get Netflix’s “The Old Guard” over the just-another-shoot-‘em-up hump.
7 out of 12 Tamales
“Palm Springs”: One-Sentence Review
Typical time-travel conundrums aside, Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti “groundhog” fittingly in Hulu’s disarmingly charming Palm Springs.
9.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Floor is Lava”: One-Sentence Review
Childhood’s most high-stakes game is brought to life in Netflix’s Floor is Lava, a quirky, Double Dare inspired gameshow with enough magma-tism to draw viewers in.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Ultimate Tag”: One-Sentence Review
The scoring system needs tweaking, segments are poorly edited or cut almost entirely, yet the straight out of Nintendo’s Punch Out taggers, plus the Watt brothers’ likable commentary bring enough to Ultimate Tag to make it a gameshow worth chasing.
7.5 out of 12 Tamales
“The Titan Games”: One-Sentence Review
Well-executed challenges and the right amount of humanity, humility and grit from competitors are rounded out further by Dwayne Johnson’s and co-hosts Cari Johnson and Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez’s motivational input.
10 out of 12 Tamales
“Mucho Mucho Amor”: One-Sentence Review
Your parents’ favorite Puerto Rican prophesier propels this Netflix documentary into orbit—providing an in-depth look at the almost mythological Walter Mercado.
10 out of 12 Tamales
“Hamilton”: One-Sentence Review
Hamilton brings home the front-row: the catching tunes, the compelling story, and the melting pot of complexity—all in a two and a half hour revisionist, historical musical full of passion and soul.
12 out of 12 Tamales
“Unsolved Mysteries (2020)”: One-Sentence Review
A sorely missed Robert Stack doesn’t prevent this Netflix rendition of Unsolved Mysteries from matching its 80s/90s counterpart’s spine-tingling creepiness.
10 out of 12 Tamales
