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The Hunting Party is getting rather good, isn’t it? I love watching the trajectory of a show in real-time; the so-so episodes when it’s figuring out...

If you squint a little, Suits LA almost resembles a proper legal drama in Episode 5.

If nothing else, The Hunting Party is heading in the right direction. Episode 7 seems to have settled on what works best about the show, much like the previous episode did.

To be fair to Suits LA, it hasn’t exactly flaunted its spin-off status. This is either for better or worse, depending on what you’re looking for, but it’s pretty hard to argue that Episode 4, “Batman Returns”, is the outing most obviously coasting on the association.

This is more like it. Not to say, “I told you so”, obviously, but after an episode that let conventionality creep in, to its detriment, The Hunting Party really gets back on the right track in Episode 6.

Bad news – the dead brother is back. And this is no offense to Carson Egan, who plays Eddie Black perfectly well.

The Hunting Party unfortunately ends its run of improving form in Episode 5. "Roy Barber" isn't a bad episode, by any means, but it is one that seems to miss the point of NBC's high-concept procedural.

I think we can all agree that the Suits LA premiere was a little too chaotic for its own good. The good news is that things settle down a little bit in Episode 2, “Old Man Hanrahan”.

The premiere of Suits LA is like someone dared NBC to cram every character and subplot they plan to use in Season 1 into a single episode.

I could still use more of The Pit, as a setting and a concept, but I think we're getting there to a certain extent, and in the meantime, there's enough interesting stuff going on to hold the audience's attention.

On balance, Episode 3 of The Hunting Party is the best one yet, in large part because it seems to understand that everything involving the Pit and its secrets is significantly more interesting than the actual case-of-the-week plotting.

Is anybody there? Has the gap between the decent premiere of The Hunting Party and Episode 2, “Clayton Jessup”, been so needlessly big that everybody has forgotten this show exists?

NBC’s The Hunting Party has one of the more compelling concepts in recent memory. It’s about a top-secret subterranean prison built below a nuclear missile silo housing the deadliest serial killers humanity has ever produced, many of whom are supposed to be dead.

Brilliant Minds hasn’t always explicitly been about fear, but the theme has certainly lurked in the background. All of it comes to the fore in the...

Brilliant Minds kept its audience on tenterhooks for weeks after collapsing a building on one of its key cast members and heading off for a midseason hiatus.

Carol has been a reliable but underutilized presence in Brilliant Minds thus far, so it’s nice that Episode 11, “The Other Woman”, puts her firmly at the...

Episode 10 of Brilliant Minds is about pain, in ways both obvious and not. “The First Responder” as a title is misleading. Sure, one of...

I’m not going to say Brilliant Minds is running out of ideas, because Episode 9, “The Colorblind Painter”, still has a few. But the idea of a...