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This recap of Perry Mason Season 2, Episode 5, “Chapter Thirteen”, contains spoilers. “Chapter Thirteen” is the best episode of Perry Mason yet by such...

This recap of Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 2, “Edible Complex”, contains spoilers. Yellowjackets has been promising cannibalism for so long that now it’s finally here...

This recap of Lucky Hank Season 1 Episode 3, “Escape”, contains spoilers. Small-town ennui is usually a coming-of-age thing. Kids get older and start to...

This recap of Succession Season 4 Episode 2, “Rehearsal”, contains spoilers. If the overarching theme of Succession has always been that the entire Roy clan...

We recap the FX on Hulu series Great Expectations (2023) Season 1 Episode 3, which contains spoilers. The two-episode premiere of Great Expectations sets the...

I write for a living, so I’ve probably spent more time looking at a blank Word document and a blinking cursor than I have doing...

This week’s episode of Rain Dogs picks up an indeterminate amount of time after Episode 3, with Costello and Iris having settled into Selby’s rather...

Perry Mason’s name is intimately entwined with the idea of justice. He defends the wrongly accused, stands up for the downtrodden, and fights against a...

In the new AMC dramedy Lucky Hank, it takes a while for us to figure out why Bob Odenkirk’s titular Hank Devereaux is especially lucky....

It’s Logan Roy’s birthday in the fourth season premiere of Succession. When you get to his age, those celebrations aren’t what they used to be....

In the first episode of Great Expectations, the writers set the tone for what was ahead with Pip (Fionn Whitehead) and his stakes with Miss...

Great Expectations is a series based on an orphan who is down on his luck until running into Miss Havisham. The series stars Academy Award-winner...

Many have described the success of Showtime’s Yellowjackets as surprising, but how surprising is it, really? It has all the right elements in spades –...

Things aren’t going well for Costello. In Episode 2, she had an article published in the London Informer that was framed as her defending and...

Perry Mason, as with most prominent shows on HBO, might be considered “prestige” TV, a rather loose moniker that nobody really understands or can provide...

From a court case to a hostile takeover to an almost-murder, episode 10 of Your Honor Season 2 had just about everything, bringing a sophomore...

This recap of Rain Dogs Season 1 Episode 2, “Scenes from a Crucifixion”, contains spoilers.  As a writer, let me tell you that being a...

This recap of Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 2, “Chapter 10”, contains spoilers. Perry Mason practiced civil law for approximately one episode before remembering his...