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Audiences Split on ‘Alice and Steve’ as Season 2 Hangs in the Balance
While the cast of Alice and Steve has hinted at hopes for a second season, audience response following the cliffhanger has been deeply polarizing, casting...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – The Mature Approach
It was, of course, pretty obvious that most of the promising-looking subplots developed in the previous episode of Not Suitable for Work were going to get a...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – Work-Life Imbalance
After a fairly chaotic three-part premiere in which all manner of things went wrong for the residents of Murray Hill, it has taken until Episode...
‘Alice and Steve’ Season 1 Ending Explained – It’s All Going Up in Smoke
While Alice and Steve doesn’t seem like the kind of show that would necessarily need a second season, the ending of Season 1 makes a...
Nicola Walker Carries ‘Alice and Steve’, Introducing A National Treasure to A Global Audience
While Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement both top the billing of Alice and Steve, an unconventional “wrong-com” about long-time besties finding their friendship torn apart...
‘Alice and Steve’ Season 1 Review – A Sharp, Unconventional “Wrong-Com”
As far as elevator pitches go, there are few as inherently icky as the one underpinning Alice and Steve. But is it that bad, really?...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1 Premiere Recap – ‘Friends’ For A New Generation?
As much as I quite liked the Season 1 premiere of Mindy Kaling’s Hulu workplace comedy Not Suitable for Work, it mostly reminded me how...
‘The Testaments’ Ending Explained – A Tragic Finale With A Small Ray Of Hope
It isn’t easy being a teenage girl at the best of times — or so I’m reliably told — but in Gilead it’s virtually impossible....
‘The Testaments’ Episode 9 Recap – Divine Justice Is Complicated
You might be fooled into thinking that there isn’t a great deal going on in Episode 9 of The Testaments, but don’t be so hasty. While...
The Hidden Complexity of Commander Mackenzie in Hulu’s ‘The Testaments’
Gilead, both in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, positions itself as a veiled evil. You have to be inside the territory to understand how...
‘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.
Rita’s Role In ‘The Testaments’ Is Much More Important Than You Think
After six seasons immersed in the darkness of The Handmaid’s Tale, is the spin-off The Testaments feeling too light? Episode 7 proves that the answer...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 7 Recap – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Another day, another Daisy episode of The Testaments. Not for the first time, “Commitment” is framed around the narration and Canadian flashbacks of our favourite Pearl...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 6 Recap – In the Nosebleed Seats
It’s worth wondering how someone gets into a position of power in a place like Gilead. Aunt Lydia, who’s very much the focal point of The Testaments Episode...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 5 Recap – Like Prom, But Full Of Old Creeps
Prom is a perennial fixture of teenage life and, by extension, teenage media. And while I’m not sure The Testaments necessarily qualifies as younger-skewing entertainment, it is about high-schoolers,...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 4 Recap – Nobody Likes Going to the Dentist
Generally speaking, tea parties are about as fun as they sound. This, it turns out, is especially true of The Testaments, wherein tea parties are the...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 3 Recap – More Than Meets the Eye
It took a while, but The Testaments finally shifts its focus in Episode 3 to provide more context around what Daisy is really up to. And it’s...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 2 Recap – Loose Lips Sink Ships
If you squint a bit, The Testaments at least resembles a YA drama, a coming-of-age tale about a teenager navigating the perils of adolescence. It’s not, obviously...