Backrooms: A Scary Film With A Lot Of Depth
Aug 5, 2026
The Running Man Eventually Runs Out Of Steam
Jul 29, 2026
The Magnus Protocol Reviews: “Legacy Issues”
Jul 22, 2026
It Came From The Archives: “Thunderbolts*: Bleak But Amazing”
Jul 15, 2026
SciFi IRL: From Indie to Epic
Jul 13, 2026
The Doomies: A New Spooky Kid Show
Jul 8, 2026
Hoppers: Actually Hilarious
Jul 1, 2026
SciFi IRL: How NPCs Become Characters That Know YOU
Jun 29, 2026
The Top 10 Best Marvel Super Heroes Cards
Jun 24, 2026
Sci-Fi IRL: The Holodeck Is Getting Smarter
Jun 22, 2026
It Came From The Archives! “StuGo: An Absurd Cartoon”
Jun 17, 2026
Iron Lung: Almost A Great Cosmic Horror Film
Jun 10, 2026
Widow’s Bay: Flawed Horror Comedy
Jun 3, 2026
Project Hail Mary: You Owe Yourself To See It
May 27, 2026
It Came From The Archives! “Pluribus: The Best Sci-Fi Concept In Years”
May 20, 2026
“With Interest” finally gives us a superhero episode. I said last review that I wanted the pot to boil over, and it basically did. Daredevil locks in, even if the mask hasn’t come on. I hadn’t expected the episode to break the seal being a very trope-heavy, classic superhero scenario, but, hey, it was a ton of fun.
“Out of the Box” is perhaps the first comedy episode in this series and the second in Magnus as a whole. Maybe that’s just because of me being exposed to some much horror content, and not being bothered by the body horror, but I chuckled multiple times.
Gaming is a lot of fun. It’s a favorite pastime of so many people. And the technology is getting better all the time.
In this version of our future, it’s gotten very, very good. Possibly beyond what is actually possible—but, hey, this is a science fiction story. Let’s roll with it.
“Sic Semper Systema” is a pure setup episode—and it’s the only reason it suffers. The last two episodes were a very clean arc, the White Tiger arc, and it ended brutally. But it also ended, and the fallout isn’t lingered on as much as I expected. It’s just bringing up the boil.
“Terms and Conditions” is an odd little episode. I’m unsure of the goal, to be frank. Besides the last two scenes, it’s just kind of mildly spooky stuff happening. Maybe that’s just a testament to how subtle the foreshadowing is, but I doubt there were that many big clues in the Bonzo section. It’s just Bonzo being Bonzo.
In many stories, especially cosmic horror stories, humanity is threatened in some way or another. The reader is a witness to a potential end of the world.
This is such a story, but it does have a twist to it. For it is not an attack that threatens humanity.
“Eliminations” is exactly what I wanted. In my article for “Peer Review,” I said I would like to please check in on Sam, and this over-delivered. We get a whole episode set over in The Magnus Archives world.
“Peer Review” Lacks One Important Horror Aspect “Peer Review” is evocative of a classic episode. I liked it quite a bit. The writing is strong and the voice acting stellar. But it did lack this one point of magic that The Magnus Archives has. It’s the implication of explanation within the horror. In other words,…
Are you in a room, dear reader?
If so, look at a corner. Isn’t it cool how perfectly the two walls mesh into one another? There’s no space between them.
“The Hollow of His Hand” chronicles one of the most electric courtroom dramas I’ve seen in a long time. This may be because I only tend to watch certain genres and not typically legal thrillers, but the twists and turns, the emotional highs and lows, all contained within one episode, simply floored me.
The Electric State is terrible. A very generic plot with guessable moments at every stage only highlights how nonsensical the out-there worldbuilding becomes.
Behold, dear reader, the following:
A lamentation told in a rolling, long-sentence-filled, almost stream-of-consciousness (but not really) narrative style about a person and his friends from our world finding a different world where things are not much fun.
