Episode verdicts, first impressions and considered reviews of Critical Role programmes, games and releases.
The Soldiers reach Hawthorn’s Glade and discover that faith, beauty, darkness and even supernatural nature are poor substitutes for deciding what somebody actually chooses to do.
A cohesive Soldiers-focused episode where Wicander redefines the Light, Tyranny confronts demonic nature and Thimble pays for truth with memory.
“On the Scent” turns a hunt through Timmony into a study of borrowed authority, as Wicander wrestles with inherited status and Casimir discovers how little respect betrayal actually bought him.
A slow-burning but rewarding episode that uses Timmony, the Candescent Creed and Castle Sloak to explore power, legitimacy and the humiliating limits of Casimir Gavendale’s new status.
Thimble finally gets Casimir, but Campaign 4’s strongest choice is making what happens after the revenge matter even more.
A brutal, funny and unexpectedly hopeful episode that turns Thimble’s revenge on Casimir into a larger argument about leadership, loyalty and what victory is for.
The Soldiers follow Cyd into Tybry’s Lea and discover that when gods, revolutions and institutions fail, what matters is not preserving their old shape — but deciding which promises still deserve to survive.
A dense but rewarding episode that uses Timmony’s Hounds, the Candescent Creed and House Tachonis to ask what deserves to survive when old systems fail.
Campaign 4 starts digging beneath family, faith and old loyalties — and discovers that nothing inherited comes without a history.
Episode 2 turns old loyalties, inherited authority and House Halovar’s hidden machinery into active threats as Thjazi’s sabotaged escape begins to take shape.
Campaign 4 stops merely showing us how power works and starts showing us what happens to people who get in its way.
Episode 3 turns political pressure into attempted disappearance, betrayal and open supernatural violence as Campaign 4’s separate storylines begin colliding.
The Overture ends with a massacre, an impossible return from death and Campaign 4's clearest argument yet that origin does not have to become destiny.
House Tachonis destroys Palazzo Davinos, Occtis dies and returns, and Bolaire reveals what they are as the Overture turns inheritance into a fight over ownership and choice.
After certainty collapses, Campaign 4 sends its characters looking for new directions — and discovers that moving forward does not always mean leaving the past behind.
A strong transitional chapter that turns the Overture’s consequences into direction while finding emotional weight in Occtis’s undeath, chosen trust and the families still waiting for someone to come home.
A long road leads to richer character work, strange comedy and a sanctuary whose safety comes with an oppressive edge.
The Onyx Spire deepens the new party through intimate disagreements and reaches an exceptional final act inside a sanctuary built from genuine safety, inaccessible authority and fear.
A grotesque, compassionate premiere builds an instantly memorable party, even when its first battle and repeated travel challenges slow the episode.
Scattered Pilgrims introduces a vivid dark-fantasy party and ends with an exceptional act of compassion, although its long first battle and repeated travel challenges weaken the middle.
Campaign 4 introduces thirteen characters by killing the one man who connects almost all of them.
Campaign 4 begins with Thjazi Fang’s execution and turns grief into mystery, delivering an ambitious, emotionally grounded premiere despite an occasionally overwhelming amount of worldbuilding.
