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Honesty is the best policy, or so the saying goes, but I'm not sure Sam Nelson would agree. Throughout Season 2 of Hijack, he has been pretty understandably cagey, all the better to sell the inverted premise of Apple TV+'s claustrophobic thriller.

There's a fine line between happiness and crippling trauma. It's a line that Shrinking has tiptoed along beautifully since the beginning, and never more so than in Season 3, which has an inescapable spectre looming over it that it won't allow us to forget.

No dog chasing a car ever stopped to consider what it might do if it caught it, and similarly, Camille and Issei never really thought...

The hook of Hijack has always been a claustrophobic setting. In Season 1, it was a plane, while in Season 2, it’s a train, but ironically, this season has started to improve by expanding its viewpoint.

I’ll be the first to admit that Shrinking Season 3 started so well that it’s basically impossible for the remaining episodes to consistently hit those heights.

The train has finally left the station, so to speak. In this case, the train is Hijack, and the station is Season 2, in case that wasn't clear.

Over the years, I've said some pretty hyperbolic stuff about Shrinking. Fair warning: That isn't going to change in Season 3.

Every time I watch Drops of God, I'm surprised again by how engaging it is. And it's about wine! I don't even drink wine; I don't understand or appreciate anything about it, yet I'm endlessly fascinated by everything that happens in this show.

Just in case you thought Drops of God might have lost a step in the almost three years it has been away, just peep the opening scene of the Season 2 premiere. Name me another show that can deliver such a beautiful-looking sequence with almost no light and sound, and I'll give you a cookie.

If you were worried about Hijack Season 2, and there was reason to be given its relatively tame premiere, then Episode 2, "Control", should hopefully provide a nice corrective.

Palm Royale is good, there’s no doubt about that. Season 2 has had its misteps, but for the most part, it has been a consistently entertaining...

Let's be clear -- the premiere of Hijack Season 2 only works because it's called Hijack and, after the first season, we know what to expect.

You might be thinking it’s a bit of a stretch for the same guy to be caught up in two separate hijackings. And you’d be...

In case you didn't know there was a finale coming up, Episode 9 of Palm Royale Season 2 makes it pretty clear.

Most shows benefit from a change of scenery, but Palm Royale benefits pretty considerably in “Maxine Hits the Slopes”.

Palm Royale has already reached peak silliness in Season 2, and it doesn’t seem likely to slow down any time soon. Episode 7, “Maxine Plays...

Timing is everything. This has been true of Pluribus all the way through, but it’s especially true of the finale, and not just because it...

The more you think about Pluribus, the better it gets. This isn’t true of very many shows these days, since a lot of shows – even the enjoyable ones – are conceptually fraudulent rubbish.