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‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 7 Recap – The House Of Cards Is Crashing Down
Industry Season 4 is now proceeding with such full-throttle end-of-run HBO primetime confidence that every hour is a new delight, often in a different way...
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Ending Explained – Double Or Nothing
George R. R. Martin himself has said that the death of Baelor Targaryen is one of the most significant moments in Westerosi history, one of...
‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 6 Recap – Oh, That Was Pretty Masterful
Not to be hyperbolic about things, but "Dear Henry" is a properly masterful hour of television. When I talked about how Industry Season 4 gets better as it goes along, this is the kind of thing I was talking about.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Episode 5 Recap – Dunk’s Rocky Moment
Delayed gratification is the art of making someone wait for something they definitely want, and it’s an idea very neatly displayed in Episode 5 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
‘The Beauty’ Episode 6 Recap – This Outing Was A Bad Idea
Even though the titular product very much twists through the entire DNA of The Beauty, I’m pretty sure we didn’t need any more explanation about...
‘Memory of a Killer’ Episode 4 Recap – I Think I Know Who the Ferryman Is
Things are really starting to heat up in Memory of a Killer now. If Episode 3 was all about teasing out Angelo’s worsening Alzheimer’s issues, making vague hints about who the Ferryman might be and who might be double-crossing whom, Episode 4, “Unhappy Ending”, is about fleshing those lingering suspicions out into full-blown theories.
‘Memory of a Killer’ Episode 3 Recap – Getting Too Close to Home
I do like Memory of a Killer, and I think it has a fundamentally great premise, but you can feel it wearing a little bit in Episode 3, “Samurai”. This is partly the fault of Angelo himself, who is rather in denial about his worsening memory issues and keeps neglecting them, making his already complicated situation even worse.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Episode 4 Recap – A Gloomy Recruitment Drive
In its limited screentime thus far, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has done a pretty remarkable job of communicating a much more hopeful tone than you’d necessarily expect from a show set in the same brutal universe as Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.
‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 5 Recap – The Thing Is Nothing (And Other Revelations)
There are a lot of good ideas in “Eyes Without a Face”. It's the first proper out-of-office hour of Industry Season 4, which is always nice, sending two underused characters to a far-flung location on a side mission that rattles the foundations of the main plot.
‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ Ending Explained – That’s How You Do A Finale
I think it’s fair to say that Spartacus: House of Ashur has earned a finale like Episode 10, “Hail Caesar”. Things haven’t been going especially well for...
‘The Beauty’ Episode 5 Recap – Of Course It’s the Billionaires
Of course it’s the billionaires! If you were going to sell an experimental trial drug that radically rewrote your DNA for an unfeasibly large amount of money, it’d make complete sense to pitch it directly to people with more money than sense, those to whom small matters like FDA approval – you know, the rules that the plebs are bound by – are small concerns.
‘Brilliant Minds’ Season 2, Episode 14 Recap – Gas Leaks and Imaginary Friends
You can always tell when Brilliant Minds is due to go on hiatus, since that’s when it wheels out the big guns. Season 2 hasn’t had very...
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Episode 3 Recap – And There’s the Big Twist
And there it is, ladies and gentlemen. The big reveal of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms finally arrives in Episode 3, "The Squire", and it's about time, too, since virtually everyone watching the show will have figured it out already.
‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap – It’s All Going Badly Wrong
Industry is about the worst people in the world, partaking in an endless stream of deplorable and immoral activities. This is as true now as it...
‘The Night Manager’ Season 2 Ending Explained – That Isn’t What Was Supposed to Happen!
Isn’t it funny how, when Season 2 began, nobody really expected or wanted a sequel to The Night Manager, and now that it’s ending, the...
‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ Episode 9 Recap – Well, I Guess the Marriage Is Off
I think it's fair to say that you don't come to Spartacus: House of Ashur looking for depth of character. It's a show about copious amounts of blood and guts, full-frontal nudity -- I see you, Pompey -- and ridiculous quasi-Shakespearean dialogue.
‘The Hunting Party’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – The Cabin in the Woods
The Hunting Party has been a little male-dominant in Season 2, so Episode 4 already wins some novelty points by revolving around a female spree killer. Thankfully, "Amanda Weiss" has a bit more going for it than that.
‘The Beauty’ Episode 4 Recap – Containment Procedures and Naked Wrestling
I know it has been a while since the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic gripped the world, but The Beauty clearly hasn’t forgotten the panic and paranoia...