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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Review – A Tremendously Fun Time
It’s difficult to tell whether A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is for Game of Thrones fans who are still smarting about how badly it...
‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 2 Recap – A Truly Demented Hour Of TV
Blimey, where to start? Industry doesn't do episodes like "The Commander and the Grey Lady" very often, since it's usually too firmly rooted in the real world -- albeit the grimmest corners of it -- to indulge in visions and metaphor.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Episode 1 Recap – A Charming Introduction
Let's be totally clear here -- despite being set in the same brutal universe, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms really is nothing like Game of Thrones. And that's a good thing!
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – I Hope That Was A Prosthesis
If there’s anything The Pitt consistently makes me think about – and, to be clear, it generally makes me think about a lot of different things, not least “is that a prosthesis?!” – it’s how hospitals are even able to run at all. The intake is never-ending.
‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 1 Recap – A Whole New World
You might recall the ending of Industry Season 3, and if you're particularly asture you might recall that it really did feel like a proper, no take-back ending.
‘Industry’ Season 4 Review – An Impressively Bold, Morally Bankrupt Reinvention
For its first couple of seasons, Industry kind of flew under the radar, being as it was the less popular of HBO’s audacious shows about...
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – This Show Is Really, Really Good
Some TV shows get a bunch of attention and awards because of hype, or because they’re arriving at exactly the right time at the forefront of some new prevailing trend or another. But some TV shows get a bunch of attention and awards because they’re expertly made on every level, and The Pitt is one of those.
‘I Love LA’ Ending Explained – And the Nightmare Continues
Watching I Love LA is like watching a car crash in which all the victims just happen to be provocatively dressed in designer brands. That...
‘I Love LA’ Episode 7 Recap – Maia Puts Her Worst Foot Forward
I Love LA ventures more into overt sitcom territory in Episode 7, “Divas Down”, but what initially seems like a shallower episode is really just another step on the journey of Maia’s self-defeating psychopathy.
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Ending Explained – Nobody Ever Stays Dead
There are two constants in Stephen King’s work: Fear and evil. Both are eternal. The very idea of Pennywise – or “The Entity”, or simply...
‘I Love LA’ Episode 6 Recap – The Darkness Is Emerging
I Love LA has been a comedy since the beginning, and it’s still a comedy in Episode 6, but only just.
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Episode 7 Recap – Two Clowns for the Price Of One
Whenever people think of It, they invariably think of a scary dancing clown, but if Welcome to Derry is proving anything, it’s that Pennywise is the least of Derry’s problems.
‘I Love LA’ Episode 5 Recap – Dylan Must Be Protected At All Costs
What do you get when you take a show about mindless excess and complete, weaponised vacuity, and then have everyone in it suddenly realise that they want to do something meaningful with their lives?
‘The Chair Company’ Ending Explained – What Did We Just Watch!?
If you ever wanted concrete proof that The Chair Company is not like other shows, then look no further than its ending — if you...
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Episode 6 Recap – Your Dad Looks Like Pennywise
I was going to start this recap by saying that things aren’t looking too good in It: Welcome to Derry, but now that I think about it, that’s only a matter of perspective.
‘The Chair Company’ Episode 7 Recap – Ron Finally Gets to the Bottom Of Things
Ron did it. He finally found out what Tecca is up to. And, as predicted, Tecca are up to something.
‘I Love LA’ Episode 4 Recap – Elijah Wood Is Not A Sex Object
Networking is a deliberately nebulous word, one typically used as an excuse for getting drunk with people whose company you stand to benefit from in one way or another.
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Episode 5 Recap – Pennywise Debuts In All His Glory
It: Welcome to Derry has held off on leveraging the iconic smirking visage of Bill Skarsgård’s bulbous-headed Pennywise the Clown.