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‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Ending Explained – I’m Not Crying, You Are
Well, the second shift at The Pitt has finally ended, and it’s time to release that giant lungful of bated breath we’ve all been holding. Truthfully, I...
‘Rooster’ Episode 6 Recap – There Are Some Things You Can’t Unsee
The secret to most Bill Lawrence shows is that you want to spend time with their characters. You like them, as you would your own...
‘Euphoria’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap – What Even Is This Show Anymore?
Euphoria has always been many things – salacious, provocative, stupid, lurid, occasionally brilliant, and so on, and so forth – but chief among them was...
‘DTF St. Louis’ Ending Explained – This Is A Tricky One To Unpack
I have a sneaking suspicion that people aren’t going to love the ending of DTF St. Louis. And I can see why, honestly. I’m about to...
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 14 Recap – The Truth Comes Out (And It Hurts)
The Pitt feels unusually reserved in the penultimate episode of Season 2. It isn’t that there aren’t new patients being wheeled in all the time, or...
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap – A Touching, Funny Homage
The Comeback is about, among other things, how times change, and a function of the changing times is leaving not only things – trends, ideas,...
‘Rooster’ Episode 5 Recap – This Is What We’ve Been Waiting For
In many ways, Episode 5 of Rooster is the one I was waiting for. I could see the dramedy’s potential from the very beginning, but...
‘DTF St. Louis’ Episode 6 Recap – With Friends Like These…
In many ways, “The Denny’s Plan” is the weakest episode of DTF St. Louis thus far. That sounds like more of a criticism than it’s intended to...
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 13 Recap – Changing of the Guard
The Pitt's Season 2 shift is, technically, already over. It ended last week for the few members of the cast smart enough to commit to walking out of PTMC for the good of their own mental health, but everyone else lingers behind in Episode 13.
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 2 Recap – Valerie Can’t Keep A Secret
It’s hard to talk about a mockumentary – even though The Comeback has stopped being one in Season 3, at least for long stretches –...
‘Rooster’ Episode 4 Recap – I Do Believe We’re Getting Somewhere
I keep expecting to like Rooster more than I do. Luckily, Episode 4 reassured me that it does seem to be going somewhere, even if I don’t...
‘DTF St. Louis’ Episode 5 Recap – Things Are Getting Pretty Full On
One of the broader arcs in Episode 5 of DTF St. Louis is Detective Homer realising that the murder of Floyd Smernitch isn’t as open-and-shut as he...
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 12 Recap – There’s Something In the Air
When even Dana is crying, you know something is going badly wrong in The Pitt. But that feeling of mounting dread which has characterised Season 2...
‘Rooster’ Episode 3 Recap – Greg’s First Day On Campus Goes Badly Wrong
Thus far, Rooster has been much more of a comedy than a drama. The elusive balance that really characterises great Bill Lawrence shows like Ted Lasso and Shrinking is conspicuously absent...
‘DTF St. Louis’ Episode 4 Recap – I Think This Might Be the Best Show On TV
It’s a testament to how good DTF St. Louis is that the cold open of Episode 4, rather drily titled “Missouri Mutual Life & Health Insurance Company”,...
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap – Let the Farewell Tour Begin
Given that The Comeback has always been a show with an eerie soothsaying quality about it, it’s really no surprise that Season 3 – which...
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 11 Recap – Ice Saves A Life, and ICE Risks One
A lot can happen in two hours. Nobody is learning this quicker than the staff at PTMC, who keep reminding everyone that they're only a couple of hours away from the end of what has been a veritable shift from hell. But we're not there yet.
‘Rooster’ Episode 2 Recap – Wonderfully Consistent Comedy, Questionable Drama
Steve Carell made a handy focal point for Rooster, and his reluctant bumbling is what helped to situate us at Ludlow and get a sense...