Poor little rich cartoon: A look at the end of ‘TMNT’ Season 4 (1990)
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): The back half of CBS’ Season 4 includes minor hits, near misses, and bizarre missed opportunities for action figures.
Michael Reaves
Poor little rich cartoon: A look at the end of ‘TMNT’ Season 4 (1990)
Missing Mona Lisa: A look at ‘TMNT’s’ early CBS episodes
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): Season 4 episodes 14-26 introduce or bring back popular characters, but their impressions are fleeting.
Leatherhead, Usagi enter the fray in ‘TMNT’ Season 3 (1989)
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): Metalhead also makes his debut amid episodes 30-37 as we continue our look at the classic cartoon.
Baxter, Casey Jones elevate ‘TMNT’ Season 3 (1989) at midway point
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): “Return of the Fly” and the first two Casey Jones episodes rank among the cartoon’s high points.
Rat King, mistaken identities emerge in ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Season 3 (1989)
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): In episodes 9-21 of Season 3, the writers tentatively branch beyond homages to expand the Turtles’ own world.
Shredder and Krang throw schemes at the screen to open ‘TMNT’ Season 3 (1989)
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): The writers begin an ambitious (in terms of quantity) season with fun and funny premises in episodes 1-8.
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ finds its groove in back half of Season 2 (1988)
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): Writer Michael Reaves stabilizes the formula as “TMNT” shills toys while maintaining its energy and sense of humor.
‘TMNT’ Season 2 (1988) stumbles through opening Sarnath arc
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): The writers stop overtly cribbing from the comics and instead riff on Eighties films. The rushed nature of these five episodes is evident.
‘Mask of the Phantasm’ (1993) reveals Batman’s lost love
Superhero Saturday (Movie review): Although it only made a blip at the box office, this film has become highly regarded among Bat-fans.
‘Buffy’ flashback: All 8 short stories from ‘Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 4’ (2004), ranked (Book review)
The fourth and final “Tales of the Slayer” collection (November 2004) is also the only one centered around a theme: specifically, the Cruciamentum – as seen in “Helpless” (3.12) — wherein the Slayer is weakened […]