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Daryl Dixon is a walking marketing exercise. The hair, the long Blade-style trench coat – dude, you’re in Spain, unbutton that thing – and the shifting signature weapon.

The Rainmaker takes something of a turn in Episode 7, largely abandoning the main plot for the equivalent of a side quest that neatly ties up Rudy’s ongoing involvement in Kelly’s love life.

How many murders have to happen in a small town before it stops being a noteworthy enough occurrence for a show title?

And just like that, the Game Maker mini-arc that has been the focal point of High Potential in both the Season 1 finale and the Season 2 premiere has come to an end.

It only took all season, but I finally learned the technical term for “Species 64”, otherwise known as the “creepy tentacled eyeball octopus”, which is...

If I was throwing a party, the last people I’d invite would be Daryl and Carol. Not that the residents of Solaz del Mar are necessarily throwing a party, but you know what I mean.

At this point, I’ve given up on my quaint hope that anyone in Task doesn’t have a deeply traumatic personal backstory. It’s a waste of time.

Every legal drama needs a moment when the tables turn, and The Rainmaker gets it in Episode 6.

It has been a while since High Potential was last on our screens, something that I was reminded of in the Season 2 premiere.

In many ways, we’ve all been waiting for the Lost Boys to turn on Boy Kavalier and Prodigy and facilitate some kind of escape, possibly aided by Kirsh for bonus catharsis points.

If the first episode of Brad Ingelsby’s Task was about a crime, Episode 2 is about all the other complications and consequences spilling out from it.

Oh, we’re not doing the whole “Carol has a dead daughter” thing again, are we?

It was bound to happen eventually. Rudy’s ability to fall on his feet couldn’t last forever, and Episode 5 of The Rainmaker marks the end of the road for his run of good luck.

Earlier in this season, I said half-jokingly that the Xenomorphs were the good guys in Alien: Earth, but frankly, I’m starting to believe it more and more.

With some TV shows, you can just tell they’re good. I don’t mean “decent”, either – I mean properly, prestige.

For two seasons, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon was inseparable from its French setting.

I don’t like to say “I told you so”, but it only took until Episode 4 for The Rainmaker to prove me right about Rudy and Sarah.

I've never been more thankful for a flashback episode. Usually, such things are the lowest common denominator of flat-pack TV storytelling, but after whatever was going on in the previous episode, I’m just thankful for a reprieve from Boy Kavalier.