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‘The Night Manager’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – Diego Calva Is Superb
The Night Manager has spent most of Season 2 trying to redo the events of Season 1, albeit with some key exceptions. One of those...
‘The Hunting Party’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – It’s Always Daddy Issues
It’s always daddy issues, isn’t it? Since The Hunting Party deals with the psychology of killers, it’s kind of unavoidable that parental problems will frequently...
‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ Episode 8 Recap – A Major Character Death Raises the Stakes
Spartacus: House of Ashur, after a week off, returns to the sands of the arena and, of course, provides a mandatory late-game character death to...
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – This Is Getting Pretty Heavy
The secret to The Pitt – or, more accurately, one of several secrets, but arguably the most important – is realism. Case in point: There’s...
‘The Beauty’ Review – Ryan Murphy Is Back Near His Demented Body-Horror Best
You can never quite predict what Ryan Murphy is going to do next, and by extension, whether his latest project will be representative of his...
‘The Beauty’ Episode 3 Recap – An Eye For An Eye
How many people can you see explode before it starts to get tedious? I do worry that The Beauty might be leaning a little too heavily against this gimmick, since Episode 3, “Beautiful Christopher Cross”, opens in much the same way as the premiere, with a woman getting very thirsty and violent before eventually combusting in the middle of a crowded restaurant.
‘The Beauty’ Episode 2 Recap – Oh, Hey, It’s Ashton Kutcher
In Episode 2, “Beautiful Jordan”, The Beauty gives us our first glimpse of the villain of the piece, played by Ashton Kutcher. It also turns into John Wick for a good chunk of the very clipped 25-minute runtime, which is an interesting stylistic choice.
‘The Beauty’ Episode 1 Recap – The Most Ryan Murphy Opening Ever?
The Beauty might have the most Ryan Murphy opening ever. Here’s a supermodel on the runway, looking great. But also looking a little off-kilter. It’s a believable model performance because it’s Bella Hadid, a casting coup a bit like Kim Kardashian starring in a legal drama.
‘High Potential’ Season 2, Episode 10 Recap – This Show At Its Very Best
High Potential is an above-average procedural at the best of times, and that has been evident pretty regularly in Season 2. But only rarely does it come together in quite the way it does in Episode 10, “Grounded”, a really excellent hour that neatly embodies all of the interesting and unique things this show does well.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Review – A Tremendously Fun Time
It’s difficult to tell whether A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is for Game of Thrones fans who are still smarting about how badly it...
‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 2 Recap – A Truly Demented Hour Of TV
Blimey, where to start? Industry doesn't do episodes like "The Commander and the Grey Lady" very often, since it's usually too firmly rooted in the real world -- albeit the grimmest corners of it -- to indulge in visions and metaphor.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Episode 1 Recap – A Charming Introduction
Let's be totally clear here -- despite being set in the same brutal universe, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms really is nothing like Game of Thrones. And that's a good thing!
‘The Night Manager’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – You Can’t Trust Spies After All
After three episodes of The Night Manager’s second season gradually morphing back into its first, Episode 4 makes that cycle of renewal feel complete.
‘The Hunting Party’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – Outsider Art
I’ve always said that The Hunting Party does a good job of coming up with eerie concepts for its killers, and I’m glad to see this hasn’t diminished in Season 2.
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – I Hope That Was A Prosthesis
If there’s anything The Pitt consistently makes me think about – and, to be clear, it generally makes me think about a lot of different things, not least “is that a prosthesis?!” – it’s how hospitals are even able to run at all. The intake is never-ending.
‘Best Medicine’ Episode 2 Recap – A Slight Step Above the Premiere
Good news! I think Episode 2 of Best Medicine is definitely better than the premiere, which is a good sign.
‘High Potential’ Season 2, Episode 9 Recap – A So-So Return to Formula
As predicted, High Potential Season 2 has returned to its standard case-of-the-week procedural format, with most of Episode 9, “Under the Rug”, proceeding as if the events of the solid second half of the art thief two-parter never happened.
‘Brilliant Minds’ Season 2, Episode 12 Recap – A Disappointing Step Down
Guys, Brilliant Minds Season 2 might have peaked already. It was always going to be a tall order for Episode 12 to compete with one of the better outings in the show's history, but "The Rider" feels like a bit of a regressive step all the same, lacking the raw emotional sentiment of its immediate predecessor and a lot of the compelling overarching storytelling that has been threaded throughout the season.