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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.

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.

Having just spent 13 consecutive hours in a hospital, I was particularly sensitive to The Pitt in "11:00 A.M.", perhaps more so than any other episode in Season 2 thus far. This is likely because Episode 5 has a strong undercurrent of time-management, or perhaps more accurately how impossible it is to manage time in a clinical setting.

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 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...

I've never worked in a hospital, but I have seen one and a bit seasons of The Pitt, which I reckon is the next best thing. So, I can tell you with a reasonable degree of authority that 10:00 A.M. is where things start getting a bit nuts.

If Henry and Yasmin's extremely toxic and bizarre marital life constituted a bit of a break for Industry Season 4, then Episode 3, "Habseligkeiten", is HBO's drama getting back to business.

If we're being honest, there isn't a great deal going on in Episode 2 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. It's one of those classic, early-season "getting to know you" outings, making necessary introductions and setting things up for later.

The secret to The Pitt – or, more accurately, one of several secrets, but arguably the most important – is realism. Case in point: There’s...

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...

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.

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!

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.

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.

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...

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.

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 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.