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Whenever I find myself on the wrong side of a consensus, I can usually see it coming. I’ve been writing about film and TV professionally...

John Sugar is an immigrant, a literal alien, which is probably worth keeping in the back of your mind when watching Season 2 of Sugar....

In many ways, it feels like “Awl in a Sack” is the episode that Star City has been building up to throughout Season 1. It’s...

The mystery about Nevaeh potentially being Max Cady’s daughter lasted until the opening scene of Cape Fear Episode 5, where it’s confirmed outright. You’d think...

I don’t kill people very often — not anymore, anyway — but I think I’d do a better job of it than Paula. Then again,...

Some men are willing to go to Venus to get away from their angry wives, and that’s exactly the case in Star City. I’m being...

Apple TV’s adaptation of Cape Fear got off to a great start. People were high on it, including me, lauding Javier Bardem’s stellar villain turn and the...

It’s very hard to articulate precisely what it is about Cape Fear that’s so unsettling. There isn’t a great deal that actually happens in Episode 4, and...

Season 2 of Sugar is already a much different proposition from the first outing. Apple TV’s startlingly well-shot neo-noir initially masqueraded as a pretty straight-up crime thriller,...

Widow’s Bay is over — for now. But given how popular and immediately beloved the Apple TV show has become, it was virtually inevitable that it...

There has been an element of mortal peril to Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed throughout Season 1, but the first time I really felt it was here in...

If I had to use a single word to sum up my feelings on the ending of Widow’s Bay Season 1, it would probably be “vindicated”. With...

Apple TV might not have the subscriber base, IP, or library breadth of major streaming players like Netflix and Disney+, but there’s a very compelling...

Apple TV’s Cape Fear is the third adaptation of John D. MacDonald’s 1957 novel The Executioners and has consistently referenced both the 1962 film and...

If the previous episode of Star City was about disaster, with the Soviets’ efforts to root out an American mole resulting in the death of...

Not a great deal happens in Episode 3 of Cape Fear. This is by design. Season 1 began with a fairly intense double-bill that introduced Max...

Widow’s Bay is all anyone seems to be talking about in TV Land these days, and for good reason. The show’s an endlessly enjoyable onion of...

Criminal Record isn’t your average police procedural. While it’s a perfectly respectable thriller with compelling characters and performances, its real strength is in how it builds...