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‘The Serpent Queen’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – What Happened in “An Attack on the King”
As The Serpent Queen’s framing device gets closer than ever to its present-day shenanigans, Season 1, Episode 7, “An Attack on the King” switches perspectives....
‘The Walking Dead’ Season 11, Episode 20 Recap – “What’s Been Lost”
Two things of particular significance happen in The Walking Dead Season 11, Episode 20. The first is a character who has been neglected throughout the...
‘American Gigolo’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – “Atomic”
When does the present start being the past? That seems like a question with an obvious answer, but it isn’t remotely obvious for Julian Kaye....
‘Avenue 5’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – “What an Unseasonal Delight”
You’ll recall that, after Avenue 5 Season 2, Episode 1, things aren’t going well. The passengers have just found out that they’re several years away from...
‘The Serpent Queen’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – What Happened in “The Last Joust”
Throughout its first season, The Serpent Queen has toyed with the supernatural, but only as a metaphor for a notorious monarch’s complicated legacy. Many imagined...
‘American Gigolo’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “Sunday Girl”
“Sunday Girl” is an interesting episode of American Gigolo because it essentially hits pause and forces its characters and the audience to look back on...
‘The Walking Dead’ Season 11, Episode 19 Recap – “Variant”
You know what “Variant” reminded me of? I really can’t stand Eugene. I know, I know, he has been around a long time, and he’s...
‘Avenue 5’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – “No One Wants an Argument About Reality”
The first season of Avenue 5 on HBO was about a series of escalating calamities; a cascade of bad decisions, oversights, half-truths, and assumptions that...
‘The Serpent Queen’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – What Happened in “The First Regency”
In The Serpent Queen episode 4, a welcome time jump knocked the narrative forward 15 years and welcomely cast Samantha Morton as Catherine de Medici...
‘The Serpent Queen’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – What Happened in “A New Era”
If I’ve had a persistent complaint about The Serpent Queen thus far, it’s that there hasn’t been enough Samantha Morton. Season 1, Episode 4, “A...
‘The Serpent Queen’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – What Happened in “The Price”
Things are, I think it’s fair to say, looking up for Rahima. After maiming the cook who was rude to her with the help of...
‘The Walking Dead’ Season 11, Episode 18 Recap – “A New Deal”
If I’m being completely honest, it never really made sense to me how the Commonwealth had survived even this long. Don’t get me wrong, the...
‘The Walking Dead’ Season 11, Episode 17 Recap – “Lockdown”
“Lockdown” is, literally, the beginning of the end – the first of the final few episodes of The Walking Dead. But does it feel like...
‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – “The Lord of the Tides”
There were shock deaths (or fake deaths), marriages to continue the pure Targaryen bloodline, and claims of bastard children in House of the Dragon Season...
‘American Gigolo’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – “The Escape Wheel”
Season 1, Episode 5 is about, pretty explicitly, fathers and sons, which is a surprising theme for American Gigolo to suddenly adopt. But I suppose,...
‘American Gigolo’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – “Nothing Is Real But the Girl”
When Jon Bernthal was cast as The Punisher, it seemed like an obvious choice. You take the thinly-veiled psychopathy of, say, Shane from The Walking...
‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – “Driftmark”
With Rhaenyra moving her household to Dragonstone, Lady Laena dead, and Alicent unwittingly playing a hand in the murders of Lyonel and Harwin, there are...
House of the Dragon Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “The Princess and the Queen”
It’s been well documented that a time jump would be happening, and it feels like this would be the perfect episode to do so, especially...