Welcome to the Author Archive for Seth Freilich

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Seth Freilich, Technical Development/Senior Editor: Seth Freilich co-owns this site and helps keep the lights on, the servers humming, and the ban hammer cocked and loaded. He's also a Senior Editor and sometime critic. Seth lives in L.A. and loves it, though a piece of his black heart will always reside in the home of the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles. You may email him here or follow him on Twitter.

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• 'The Pitt' Delivers Gnarly Medical Drama, but Its Emotional Honesty Hits Harder
• Coleman Domingo Shines as a Part of a Prison Theater Troupe in the Powerful 'Sing Sing'
• This Year's In-Season 'Hard Knocks' Exposes the Long-Running Show's Strengths and Weaknesses
• 'Gladiator II' Is Smothered by the Shadow of the Original
• The 'Wolfs' of Dull Street
• To Quote One of the Main Characters, 'The Front Room' Is an Em-Ee-Ess-Ess Mess
• Jeff Nichols' Riveting 'The Bikeriders' Stalls Out in the Back Half
• 'The Iron Claw' Is a Tragedy That Suplexes the Soul
• Hulu's 'The Contestant' Shows How Reality TV Scraped the Bottom of the Barrel Decades Ago
• 'Abigail' Is a Violent, Dancing Delight
• 'Bob Trevino Likes It' Is One of the Most Moving Films In Years
• Dev Patel Claws His Way to the Top of the Action Mountain in 'Monkey Man'
• 'Ricky Stanicky' Showcases the Best of John Cena and the Worst of Peter Farrelly
• 'Desert Road' Is a Tight Genre Thriller That Explores When One Should Give Up On Their Dreams
• Time-Crossed Love is Messy Business in 'Timestalkers'
• Orlando Bloom's 'Red Right Hand' is a Mediocre Hillbilly Thriller
• 'The Beekeeper' Is As Buzzingly Stupid-Fun as You Want It to Be(e)
• What Are the Top Podcasts Right Now?
• Justin Long's 'It's a Wonderful Knife' Tests the Absence of the Final Girl
• 'The Creator' Has Little New to Say, But It Says It Beautifully
• Adam Sandler's 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah' Is a Charming Nepo Affair
• 'Theater Camp' Captures the Preposterous Sincerity of Theater Kids
• Review: The 21-Minute Action Oner Is the Only Reason to Watch 'Extraction 2'
• Review: Hulu's 'White Men Can't Jump' [Spoilers] with Jack Harlow
• Talking Broadway Plays and Amazing Performances from Jessica Chastain to a Tiger Puppet
• Broadway Reviews: Aaron Sorkin's 'Camelot,' 'Parade' and 'Sweeney Todd'
• Seth Meyers is a Sweetheart and His Wife, Alexi Ashe, Is a Boss
• 'The Pope's Exorcist' Review: What's the Deal with Russel Crowe's Accent?
• 'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' Rolls a 17
• Who Is Ziggy, the Mole on 'Quantum Leap'?
• Doc Review Round-Up: 'No Ordinary Campaign,' 'The Herricanes,' 'Join or Die'
• 'Who I Am Not' Presents a Deeply Personal Story of the Little-Discussed World of Intersexuality
• 'The Arc of Oblivion' is a Thoughtful Exploration of What We Leave Behind
• Let's Talk About ChatGPT and the Fall of Humanity
• Review: 'We Feed People' Shows That Humanity Still Has a Chance
• Patton Oswalt and Jim Gaffigan Aren't Funning Around in 'I Love My Dad' and 'Linoleum'
• Review: 'It's Quieter in the Twilight' of Voyager's Final Frontier
• Review: 'To Leslie' is a Portrait of Small-Town Addiction Led by a Gripping Performance
• The Controversial 'Sell/Buy/Date' Explores the Intersecting Worlds of Sex Work and Trafficking
• Pajiba 10 For Your Consideration: Padma Lakshmi
• Review: 'Free Guy' is Half of an Amusing Movie Begging to Be Freed from the Weight of Its Premise
• Review: 'Alien on Stage' Is Exactly What You Want When You Hear "A Documentary About A Local Theater Production of 'Alien'"
• Review: 'WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn'
• Review: 'Hysterical' Highlights the Struggles and Successes of of Women in the Stand-Up Comedy World
• Why We Say 'There Are No Good Cops'
• Police Provoke and Inflame Protests in Santa Monica
• Review: 'Beastie Boys Story' is the Story of a Life
• Pajiba's Favorite Movies of the 2010s
• 'Logan' is a Modern Western About Hope, Trauma, and Guns in the Valley
• Pajiba's Favorite Movies of the 2010s - 16-20
• Batman Movies - The Indisputable, Undeniable, Nondebatable Rankings
• An Appreciation of 'Game of Thrones'
• Review: 'Frances Ferguson' Is Almost a Perfect Gem of a Comedy Except for This One Little Thing
• 'Avengers: Endgame' Rumor Persists Despite Being Quickly Debunked
• Review: 'Museum Town' Asks Whether Art Can Save a Dying Town
• Review: Porno Is a Schlocky Low Budget Horror Comedy That Is Perfect For Drunk Midnight Viewing
• Review: Jessie Buckley Announces Her Presence in 'Wild Rose'
• 'Blindspotting' Review: Daveed Diggs Shines In This Funny Drama About Race, Guns and America
• 'Outside In' Review: Edie Falco and Lynn Shelton Bring It
• Review: Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill' Musical Written Diablo Cody
• Review: 'Operation Odessa' Answers the Age-Old Riddle About Whether It's Possible to Buy a Nuclear Submarine
• What's It Like to Go to Westworld
• How Should Audiences Interpret TV Shows and Finales?
• Are We Getting That 'Watchmen' Show From HBO? Why?
• Is "Peak TV" a Good Thing or a Bad Thing? Lindeloff and Schur Sound Off!
• Two Of Today's Best Showrunners Talk About the Hollywood Reckoning
• Damon Lindelof and Mike Shur are National Treasures
• Why I Support Them
• Ted Cruz Likes Hardcore Twitter Porn
• Would the Secret Service Actually Die for Trump?
• 'American Gods' Review from the Book Reader Perspective
• 'Free Fire' Review: Less a Movie and More a Symphony of Bullets
• Netflix 'Win It All' Review: Jake Johnson Doesn't Know When to Hold 'Em or When to Fold 'Em
• 2017 SXSW Capsule Reviews - Porn, Sleep and Croatian Coen Brothers
• The Night That Rachel Maddow Let Me Down
• The Drunken Liveblog of 'Mac and Me' Because Sometimes You Suffer For Your Art and Sometimes Your Art Suffers You
• Representative Ted Lieu is the Trump Troll We All Need
• How Do We Talk With the Other Side?
• The Women's March Was an Amazing Beginning - Let's Hold On To This Unity!
• Nothing Says Friendship Like Forcing Your Friends To Watch Bad Movies
• Trump Steals an Idea from The West Wing, Wants to Kick the Press Out of the White House
• Of Movie Tickets, Changing Jobs and Legacies
• Finding My Way Forward by Looking to 2018
• An Open Letter to America
• The Bad Guy Rarely Thinks He's the Bad Guy: Of Celebrity Enemies and Mea Culpas
• 'Bad Milo' Review: Great Butt Monster Movie? Or Greatest Butt Monster Movie?
• Our Cinematic Autobiography: Stand By Me
• 'Real Genius' - It's a Moral Imperative That We Talk About Martha Coolidge
• The Ten Geekiest Shows
• I'll Watch My Stories Howsoever I Damn Well Please
• Live Talking The Story of Tonight - The 2016 Tony Awards
• I'm Sorry, Tatiana Maslany
• Greg Berlanti's 'Supergirl' and 'The Flash' Just Schooled Zack Snyder's Hacky Ass
• 'Midnight Special' Movie Review: Jeff Nichols' Southern-Fried Close Encounters
• 'Don't Think Twice' Review: Mike Birbiglia's Heartbreaking Comedy About Improv and Career Growth
• Slash Fiction, DJs, and Missing Husbands - A SXSW Roundup
• 'The Other Half' Review: Tatiana Maslany Is Just as Great without Her Clones
• You're the Vulgarian, You F*ck: Our Favorite Verbal Film Fights
• The Youth Will Not Save Bernie Sanders
• The TV/Movie Litmus Test
• "I Told You Not to Say Anything. You Can't Go In There, Brazenly Flaunt the Rules and Then Think I'm Gonna Share With You."
• Our Favorite Movie Moments
• The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and The Protect IP Act (PIPA) Explained. With Profanity
• Do Lawyers Have Good Taste?
• Video - Seth MacFarlane Sings Frank Sinatra's My Kind of Town (Chicago)
• 'Sneakerheadz' Review: Documentary on Sneaker Collection
• Haters Gonna Hate - City of Gold Shows a Delicious Reason to Love Los Angeles
• 'Who the F*ck Are The Residents?' - Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents Review
• Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston Bring Life to the Undead Vampire Flick, 'Only Lovers Left Alive'
• Is It Wrong to Be Turned on by a Girl Slaughtering Seven Henchmen with a Pair of Hammers? - The Raid 2 Review
• Damn the Man, Save the Memory - The Possibilities are Endless Review
• Love In the Time of Zombies - The Desert Review
• 'Wetlands' Review: It's Like 'The Parent Trap,' Only with Anal Fissures Instead of Twins
• 'Love Child' Review and the Troublesome Case of Online Gaming Addiction and Infant Homicide
• She Take My Money, When I'm In Need -- Marmato Review
• Every Good Man Has a Little Bit of Bad - A Most Wanted Man Review
• How Can a Film Featuring Lesbian Prostitutes Buying Pubic Wigs in a Cemetery Possibly Go Wrong? - The Foxy Merkins Review
• Putting Hope in the Hopeless Middle East Conflict -- 'The Green Prince' Review
• Expecting Review: She's Having Her Best Friend's Baby
• 'Sweetwater' Review: We Got Your B*tchface Right Here
• The East Review: The Cult of Personality
• Doctor Who or: How I Learned to Stop Thinking and Watch the Mess
• Mud Review: Alright, Alright Alright!
• Downloaded Review: You Killed The Record Industry, You Medieval D*ckweed!
• Haunter Review: Amityville Groundhog Day
• "We Cause Scenes" Review: The Splendid Art of the Prank
• Home Is Where the Heart Is Pierced on a Stick and Being Licked by TK Like a Lollipop
• Upstream Color Review: There Are Indeed Companions More Companionable Than Solitude
• Concussion Review: Warning, Head Trauma May Lead To Lesbianic Prostitution
• No Review: The Power of Propaganda
• Life According to Sam Review: The Mind of an Eight-Year-Old In An Eighty-Year-Old's Body
• Breathe In Review: Finding Someone To Play For
• "A Teacher" Review: But Then My Homework Was Never Quite Like This!
• To Rome With Love Review: Sorry Aristotle, Sometimes the Sum of the Parts is Pure S***
• America's Parking Lot Review - Texas Forever, If You Can Afford It
• The Cabin in the Woods Review: The Less You Know, The More Fun You'll Have
• Electrick Children Review - Don't Leave Me Hanging On The Telephone
• Compliance Review: Hang Up the F*cking Phone!
• Brooklyn Castle Review - Smash Knights with Mics in Militant Mental Fights
• The Raid: Redemption Review: Holy Sh*t
• The Imposter Review - I Don't Know Why You Can't See
• What TV Show Do You Wish You Lived In?
• Ten Reasons to Watch the Season Premiere of "Cougar Town" Tonight
• Teaching Kids in a Foreign Land About Laws Forbidding Robot Cyclists From Marrying ... I'd Watch the Sh*t Outta That Documentary
• Perfect Sense Review: This Movie Has Something For Everyone - Both Ewan's Mc and His Gregor, and Eva's Greens
• Daymanstep Cometh
• House of Lies Review - Because Look, The Pod Remains Convinced There's A Burning Platform
• Merry Christmas (And Happy Other Denominational and Non-Denominational Holidays). Love, Pajiba
• Sons of Anarchy Season 4 Review - Blue Balls
• "State of Play" Review (the BBC Series)
• Melancholia Review - It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Like Punching Someone in the F*cking Face)
• Storytellers: The Last Naked Eye
• "Parks and Recreation: Road Trip" -- A Web Series I Would Watch Until the End of Time ... And Because Of Love
• Like Crazy Review | Long Distance Runaround
• BEING ELMO Review | I'll Still Murder Elmo If I Ever Run Into Him In a Dark Alley, But Now I'll Feel a Tinge of Regret About It
• "Homeland" Review: I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me
• Take Shelter Review: It's Just a Shot Away, It's Just a Shot Away
• "Free Agents" Review - This Review Comes With an Olyphant Treat, Which Is Better Than The Show Deserves
• "New Girl" Review -- She's Doing Sexy Things With The Pillow
• "The Sing-Off" Review: "F*ck a Beat, I'll Go A Capella"
• The Guard Review | I Can't Tell If You're Really Mother F*cking Dumb or Really Mother F*cking Smart
• "The Torchwood Institute Was Created To Combat The Threat Posed By The Doctor And Other Phantasmagoria" ... But What Happens When "Torchwood" Itself Is The Problem?
• Another Earth Review | The Recipe to Getting Sundance to Go Ga-Ga Over Your Film
• The Histoy of Rap 2: Oh Baby You, You Got A Hair Weave, But You Say It's Your Real Hair...
• The Best Little Moviehouse in Texas (Which Is In The Magnited States of America)
• Hesher Review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is Smashing Through The Boundaries, Lunacy Has Found Me, Cannot Kill The Battery
• Detention Review: We Didn't Start The Fire
• A Wicked F*ing Time In Boston: Southie, An "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" Production
• Source Code Review: You'd Take The Red Pill, Am I Right Or Am I Right? Or Am I Right? Or Am I Right?
• Two Amy Ponds Flirting With Themselves ... Do I Need To Tell You Anything Else?
• The Key Man Review: There's A Sucker Born Every Minute
• The Music Never Stopped Review | Every Silver Lining's Got a Touch of Gray
• The City Dark Review: I Don't Think This Is What Carl Sagan Meant By "It's Better To Light A Candle Then To Curse The Darkness"
• Turkey Bowl Review: Put A Little Mustard On It
• Eloquent Eloquents, Assemble: A Call to Arms
• You Can Stop Believing: The Collapse of American Society is Nigh
• Revisiting "Californication": Does a Show's Moral Footing Matter When It's Got Rob Lowe Miming Hummers?
• "Nikita" Review - The Best Show You're Not Watching While You Burn Calories
• "Cinema Verite" Trailer and "Top Chef" Behind the Scenes | Where The Hell is Our Reality Show About the Muppets?
• Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times Review
• Mr. Sunshine Review | Actually, It's Miss Chanandler Bong
• Salvation Boulevard Review | Forgive Me Father For My Movie is Sin
• Perfect Sense Review | This Movie Has Something For Everyone - Both Ewan's Mc and His Gregor, and Eva's Greens
• Vampire Review | I Want to Suck... (*Mission Accomplished*)
• The Cinema Hold-Up | I Guess Wanting Your Money Back After Seeing the Latest Kate Hudson Suckfest Isn't Just an American Thing
• Benavides Born Review | Who Knew Unitards Were Such a Nightmare?
• HERE Review | How To Make Your Audience Walk Out In Six Easy Steps
• Knuckle Review | You Want To Settle This With a Fight?
• Bobby Fischer Against the World Review | "Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart"
• Good Morning, Worm, Your Honor | "Law & Order: UK" Lessons in British
• Micmacs Review
• Review of the Season Finale of "Lost" | Pure and Disposed to Mount Unto the Stars
• Five Most Anticipated New TV Shows | Who Wants a Mustache Ride?
• Exit Through the Gift Shop Review, Part 1 | A Wall Has Always Been the Best Place to Publish Your Work
• Exit Through the Gift Shop Review, Part 2 | Mr. Brainwash is a force of nature...
• Defendor Review | But I Can't Do This All On My Own
• The Art of the Steal Review | Sometimes Building Ivory Towers, Sometimes Knocking Castles Down
• Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields Review | I'm Fascinating ... I Write Wonderful Music
• Review: "Two and a Half Men" | Two and a Half Thumbs Up!
• "Justified" Review | "Ya Make Me Pull, I'll Put Ya Down"
• "United States of Tara," Season Two Review
• Cold Weather Review | The Adventure of Reviewing a Film
• Earthling Review
• Breaking Bad Contest - What's In Your Bunsen Burner?
• "Doctor Who: Confidential" Clips
• The Ten Best Sci-Fi Films of the Aughts
• The Five Best UK Television Shows of the Aughts
• 2009 TV Year in Review
• Starstuff!!!
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman
• The World Series Starts Tonight!
• Fox's "The Club" Video
• Dr. Horrible at the Emmy's - Video
• Emmy Awards Open Thread
• Bored To Death - Review
• TV Shows Premiering The Week of September 14th
• Best TV Robots
• The Math of Zombie Outbreaks
• "Skins," Season 3 - Review
• Comic-Con Videos - Jeffster's Fat Bottom Girls and Lost Memorium
• Alec Baldwin and Jimmy Fallon Adlib a Tracy Morgan/DeNiro Movie
• Mary-Louise Parker reads a Bedtime Story for Esquire
• "Better Off Ted" Review
• Triumph goes to Bonnaroo
• Moon Movie Review
• Danny DeVito Drunk on Live TV, Again
• Gosselaar Zack Morrises it up for Jimmy Fallon
• "Nurse Jackie" Review
• The Tony's Try to Kill Poison's Brett Michaels
• A Report on PajiBacon East
• Favorite TV Cooking Personalities
• Josh Friedman Blogs about the Demise of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"
• Best Movies with a Color in the Title
• The Transforminators - IGN's Terminator/Transformers Mash-Up Video
• Best Movie Robots
• Conan Shows Off the New "Tonight Show" Set - Video
• Tom Hanks on SNL Celebrity Jeopardy
• He Needs a Kidney - Video Clip
• Best Sitcom Floozy
• Favorite TV Lawyers
• "The Alzheimer's Project" Review
• Best TV Drunks
• The Coolest TV Characters of All-Time
• "Scrubs" Season Eight Finale, Quasi-Review and Seriously Random List
• The Coolest Spaceships in Movies and TV
• The Worst Final Lines in Good Movies
• B is for Beer, by Tom Robbins, Book Review
• Captain Freedom Book Review
• Where's the Star Trek Movie Review?
• American Idol Can Suck My Nuts
• The Modern Day Ritual
• Video - The Browncoat's "The Hero of Canton"
• The Last Six Minutes of Last Night's "Fringe"
• The Differences Between "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and "Dollhouse"
• Squeaky Bun Time
• One Movie Wonders