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‘Yellowstone’ Season 5 Continues To Suffer From Circumstance In Episode 10

November 18 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

“The Apocalypse of Change” is exactly the kind of episode you get when you have to kill off a show’s main character over a contract...

‘Dune: Prophecy’ Pulls No Punches In Season 1, Episode 1, Even If It Takes Its Time

November 18 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Here’s a relevant question: Is Dune: Prophecy the next Game of Thrones? Can it be? Should it be? Season, Episode 1, “The Hidden Hand”, has...

‘The Franchise’ Episode 7 Provides A Last-Minute Change Of Scenery

November 18 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

You can tell The Franchise is approaching the end since it’s running out of things to make fun of. We’ve already had the big and...

‘Murder in a Small Town’ Makes A Major Mistake In Episode 6

November 14 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I know I’m always getting on Murder in a Small Town’s case for fundamentally misunderstanding its own appeal and occasionally having episodes that feel like...

‘High Potential’ Episode 7 Delivers A Strong Midseason Finale and A Standout Lead Performance

November 13 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Episode 7, “One of Us”, is the midseason finale of High Potential, though I’m not sure it necessarily feels like one. A criticism? Not really....

‘Poppa’s House’ Episode 4 Is The Cringiest Yet

November 12 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Episode 4, “School Days”, is definitely the cringiest episode of Poppa’s House thus far. Please, miss me with all the singing and dancing. And this...

‘Brilliant Minds’ Delivers A Poignant Love Story In Episode 7

November 12 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The John Doe subplot comes to a poignant end in Brilliant Minds Episode 7, which all things considered is perhaps the best installment of the...

‘Yellowstone’ Writes Out John Dutton In Season 5, Episode 9 — And There’ll Be Hell To Pay

November 11 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The big question looming over the back half of Yellowstone Season 5 was how the show would conclude without the involvement of Kevin Costner, who...

Sparks Fly In ‘The Franchise’ Episode 6

November 11 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

There’s something a bit sad hanging over The Franchise in Episode 6, “Scene 110: Baptism of Fire”. The crew is at a breaking point after...

The Ending Of ‘The Penguin’ Makes Oz One Of The Best Batman Villains Ever

November 11 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The great achievement of The Penguin is that it has somehow managed to turn a perennial B-league second-stringer into – and I mean this –...

‘Poppa’s House’ Shifts Up The Dynamic In Episode 3

November 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

“Podcast” feels like the episode that Poppa’s House has been building to since it started. The mixed-bag premiere established the premise, and the second episode...

‘The Franchise’ Episode 5 Breaks Eric For the Good Of China

November 4 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I thought things couldn’t get much worse for Eric after he drove a golf cart onto the set of Centurios 2 in the previous episode,...

‘The Penguin’ Episode 7 Reveals The Horrifying Truth Of Oz’s Past

November 4 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

On the press tour for The Penguin, Colin Farrell responded to fans saying they had to come like the complex nature of Oz Cobb with...

‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ Season 2 Has A Weird Ending

November 3 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Everyone is big sad in “Au Revoir Les Enfants”, the Season 2 finale of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. And that leads to a weirder,...

The Ending Of ‘Grotesquerie’ Is A Terrible Conclusion To A Show With Real Promise

October 31 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Oh, boy – people are going to hate this. And rightly so, frankly. It always seemed likely that Grotesquerie would have a somewhat ambiguous ending,...

‘High Potential’ Is At It Again In Episode 6

October 30 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Readers, I’ve been banging this drum for a while, but honestly – when is High Potential going to commit to Morgan being wrong? Episode 6,...

‘Poppa’s House’ Still Isn’t That Funny In Episode 2, But There’s Hidden Depth

October 29 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Here’s the bad news – a lot of Poppa’s House still isn’t very funny. But here’s the good news – Episode 2, “Sleepover”, develops some...

Wolf and the Gang Go Back to School In ‘Brilliant Minds’ Episode 6

October 29 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Brilliant Minds keeps surprising me. Episode 6, “The Girl Who Cried Pregnant”, doesn’t just offer up an interesting core case with some surprising and effective...