Category: television
Crunchyroll’s lazy AI subtitles have anime fans furious
At the start of last year, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini told The Verge the company was "very focused on testing" generative AI tools for subtitling and captioning speech to text. The comment came just months after the streamer temporarily took down the debut episode of one of its newest shows, The…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ third season falls short of its second
This is a spoiler-free preview of the first five episodes of season three. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ended its second season with arguably the single strongest run of any streaming-era Trek. The show was made with such confidence in all departments that if there were flaws, you weren’t interested…
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12 thoughts about that Doctor Who finale
Spoilers for “The Reality War.” The BBC and Disney chose not to share screeners ahead of “The Reality War” to preserve its numerous twists. There isn’t time to review it in the usual style, but I felt I’d be remiss not to cap off this run of reviews by talking…
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Doctor Who: ‘The Interstellar Song Contest’ review: Camp!
Spoilers for “The Interstellar Song Contest.” No, really, spoilers from here on out. Much like Eurovision itself, that was a lot, wasn’t it? And much like every other episode this season, “The Interstellar Song Contest” was overstuffed, excessive and brutally short. It was also a lot of fun, even if…
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Doctor Who ‘Lucky Day’ review: Pete, I owe you an apology
Spoilers for “Lucky Day.” When the writers for this season of Doctor Who were announced, one name in the roster put me instantly on edge. Pete McTighe may have a distinguished filmography but, in this house, he’s known as the person who wrote “Kerblam.” That’s the Chibnall-era episode summed up…
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Doctor Who ‘The Well’ review: Signing makes you feel heard
Spoilers for “The Well.” Sometimes, in fiction, you don’t need to say a Very Important Thing in a Very Important Way to make a good point, just ask how a thing would work if it played out in the world. This week’s episode of Doctor Who, “The Well,” does exactly…
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