Alan Sepinwall

Alan Sepinwall is Rolling Stone's chief TV critic. He's been covering this new golden age of TV from the beginning, first as a reviewer for Tony Soprano's favorite newspaper, The Star-Ledger, and is the author of the books The Revolution Was Televised, TV (THE BOOK), Breaking Bad 101, and The Sopranos Sessions. Contact him at asepinwall@rollingstone.com.

Biography:  https://www.rollingstone.com/author/alan-sepinwall/

85%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • Many Reservation Dogs fans feared that the show would only get one nomination for this year, for Ethan Hawke’s (admittedly great) guest performance – Emmy voters somehow only noticing the show at all when a famous white guy appeared on it.
  • Reservation Dogs The FX comedy about Indigenous teens growing up on a reservation in rural Oklahoma was the best show on television for the past several years, yet its first two seasons only managed a single nomination, for sound editing in 2023.

Conflicts of Interest

96%

Examples:

  • But if this new Time Bandits comes closer in ambition to what I wanted all those years ago, its execution is spotty.
  • For weeks after, I had nightmares inspired by the ending, where our young hero’s parents blew up after touching a literal piece of Pure Evil (the film’s villain), leaving the boy utterly alone
  • The TV series from Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement gets laughs, but lacks the memorable strangeness of the 1981 film

Contradictions

86%

Examples:

  • Kal-El Tuck plays Kevin, an 11-year-old English boy who travels through history with a group of thieves called Time Bandits.
  • The new series is designed to be more light-hearted and comedic than the original.
  • The show features a group of five time bandits who have stolen a valuable map allowing them to travel through time and steal treasure.

Deceptions

74%

Examples:

  • But if this new Time Bandits comes closer in ambition to what I wanted all those years ago, its execution is spotty.
  • The article states that the show was intended to be an ongoing series when it was portrayed as a limited series. This is deceptive because it misled readers into believing something that wasn’t true.

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