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‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap – Coop Is In Even Further Over His Head
After an artistically triumphant deviation, Your Friends & Neighbors returns to Season 2’s overarching plot in Episode 7, and it’s perhaps just as well that it...
‘Half Man’ Episode 4 Recap – Where Do We Even Begin With That?
Every time I think I have Half Man figured out, it surprises me. Every time I feel some problems might be manifesting, it acknowledges those problems itself,...
‘The Terror’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap – Welcome to New Hyde
I’m never quite sure what AMC is doing with The Terror. There are always giant gaps between seasons, the marketing is always light, nobody ever...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Episode 4 Recap – I’ve Been to Worse Parties
If the horror in the previous episode of Widow’s Bay was a monstrous face-sitting Sea Hag, then the horror in Episode 4 is being socially...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Episode 3 Recap – Let Tourist Season Begin
It’s probably a testament to the quality of Widow’s Bay that it’s able to make a horror concept as familiar as the creepy old hag...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Premiere Recap – There’s Something In the Fog
If one thing is obvious about Widow’s Bay – the remote New England fishing town and not the very funny and surprisingly scary Apple TV...
‘Criminal Record’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – The Truth Is Old Money
Some television is designed to be aggravating, and it has been obvious since the start of Criminal Record Season 2 that this is very much...
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Episode 7 Recap – This Is Getting A Little Dark
Well, we knew it was coming. But that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with now that it’s here. It was obvious when Mark...
‘The Punisher: One Last Kill’ Review – Okay, That’s Much More Than One
It probably says a lot about Marvel’s general handling of the MCU these days that there hasn’t been a so-called “special presentation” since the idea...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 8 Recap – This Is How Babies Are Made
There's an ancient Japanese art called kintsugi. It involves repairing broken ceramics with a lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. When the object is reassembled, its repaired cracks are visible and glimmering, lacing its new form with the story of its reconstruction.
Is ‘Euphoria’ Season 4 Necessary? How the Season 3 Time Jump Ruined the Endgame
Euphoria is a strange series – I know that’s an obvious thing to state now that it has reached Season 3, but as rumors swirl...
‘Devil May Cry’ Season 2 Ending Explained – No Love Lost Between Dante and Vergil
In the storied canon of brothers who don’t get along especially well, Dante and Vergil have got to be up there. If you’re a fan...
‘Devil May Cry’ Season 2’s Soundtrack Is as Important as the Visuals
Since Devil May Cry Season 2 is adamant about treating every action scene like a nu-metal music video, it’s only right that the soundtrack is...
‘Devil May Cry’ Season 2 Review – A Solid Enough Sequel That Starts to Wear Out Its Welcome
Like most Adi Shankar Netflix shows, the first season of Devil May Cry had a broad casual audience appeal but somehow managed to really upset hardcore fans...
Everyone Keeps Getting Kayce Dutton’s ‘Marshals’ Nickname Wrong
CBS’s Yellowstone spin-off Marshals was always intended to further flesh out Taylor Sheridan’s Duttonverse – if that’s what we’re calling it – through the specific...
‘Marshals’ Episode 11 Recap – It’s All Coming Out in the Cold
It was obvious that Kayce was going to have some difficulty explaining why he was planning to extrajudicially murder a prison escapee, but even I didn’t think that his justification for that, or indeed how it might relate to his relationship with Cal and their long-standing trauma over that fateful mission in Afghanistan, would create such a downbeat and emotionally resonant episode.
‘Rooster’ Ending Explained – A Festive Finale Sticks the Landing Better Than Expected
I will confess to not having enjoyed Rooster as much as I expected to. First impressions were good, of course, but its ideas and characters...
‘Euphoria’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap – Oh, Sydney, Why Are You Doing This?
It probably says a lot about the state of contemporary society that two big shows on two major streaming platforms have delivered episodes in less than a week, each offering two different takes on the same scene. And that scene is a major character’s OnlyFans persona taking on outsized proportions and stomping Kaiju-style through a fake cityscape.