TV Explainers
Are you looking for an explanation of a particular plot point for a TV Show? Are you confused about a season’s ending? Do you need a breakdown of a character or person? This page will help you and keep you up to date on the latest TV Explainers.
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‘Landman’ Ending Explained – A Feature-Length Finale Leaves Things On An Uncertain Note
Nobody was expecting a happy ending to Landman, and Episode 10, “The Crumbs of Hope”, is the furthest thing from one. But I was pretty...
‘Subteran’ Ending Explained – An Uncertain Finale Avoids The Easiest Outcome
Subteran avoids the easy, happy ending, which holistically is one of the bolder things about it. Netflix’s first Romanian original series is mostly content to...
‘Creature Commandos’ Ending Explained – Finale Proves the New DCU Is Only Just Beginning
James Gunn isn’t pulling any punches in the finale of Creature Commandos. Episode 7, “A Very Funny Monster”, has everything you’d expect from the first...
‘American Primeval’ Ending Explained – Breaking Down the Finale’s Tragedies and Atrocities
Pretty much everyone dies in American Primeval, which is to be expected. Nobody thought a happy ending was coming to any of these characters, even...
‘Hound’s Hill’ Ending Explained – A Thorough Finale Is Worth the Wait
It takes a fair amount of time and a lot of concentration to get to the climax of Hound’s Hill, so most viewers will enter...
‘The Breakthrough’ Ending Explained – A Long-Awaited Arrest Finally Brings Closure
The Breakthrough has an ending that’s a little like releasing a long-held intake of breath. It isn’t the usual kind of crime drama tension, I’ll...
‘Brilliant Minds’ Ending Explained – Everyone Faces Their Fears In An Excellent Finale
Brilliant Minds hasn’t always explicitly been about fear, but the theme has certainly lurked in the background. All of it comes to the fore in the...
‘When the Phone Rings’ Ending Explained – It’s Finally Happily Ever After For Hee-joo and Her Husband
Allow me to spare you the suspense – When the Phone Rings has a happy ending. For a long time, it was easy to suspect...
‘Bandidos’ Season 2 Ending Explained – Perfunctory Climax Offers A Mediocre Haul
The ending of any good heist/treasure-hunting show isn’t as much of a will-they-won’t-they as it seems. Nobody ever gets the loot, really. It’s either cursed...
‘The Rig’ Season 2 Ending Explained – A Fairly Conclusive Climax Doesn’t Mean The Story’s Over
It’s only fitting, I suppose, that the ending of The Rig Season 2 highlights the most explicit battle yet between Mother Nature and greedy energy...
Here’s What ‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ Got Right About Jim Swire’s Crusade
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth has such a made-for-TV sensibility that it can be difficult to believe much of what it depicts really happened. But...
‘Missing You’ Ending Explained – A Surprisingly Thorough Climax Pays Off Every Thread
To be clear, I was highly skeptical about the ending of Missing You. I just felt there was no logical way that so many interconnected...
‘Earth Abides’ Ends As Pointlessly As It Began In A Dreary Episode 6
It should come as a surprise to nobody that the ending of Earth Abides is as dreary, pointless, and drama-averse as the rest of it...
‘Marvel’s What If…?’ Season 3 Delivers An Exciting, Multiversal Ending Full Of Possibilities
I must confess to being extremely impressed by the Season 3 finale of Marvel’s What If…?. Given the relatively small canvas it had – it...
‘Get Millie Black’ Smartly Resists A Happy Ending
What constitutes a happy ending in a crime drama? Is it the bad guys getting their comeuppance? A case being satisfyingly solved? The detective at...
The Ending Of ‘Bad Sisters’ Season 2 Is About As Good As Anyone Could Have Expected
Bad Sisters didn’t need Season 2, so the least it could do was end with a bit of finality so that nobody would be tempted...
‘Shrinking’ Season 2 Ends With A Predictably Beautiful Finale
Somewhat embarrassingly, I let out an audible gasp of relief at a certain point in Shrinking’s Season 2 finale that was so loud and dramatic...
‘Dune: Prophecy’ Delivers An Action-Packed Season 1 Finale That’s Far From An Ending
Everything that happens in Episode 6, “The High-Handed Enemy”, is in service to the kind of big-picture multi-season storytelling that HBO was doubtlessly looking for in a Duniverse project.