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‘K.O.’ Review – Gaudy French Actioner Provides Decent Fighting But Nothing Else
If you cast an MMA fighter in the lead role of a movie, it’s a fairly obvious statement about what that movie is intended to...
‘Tires’ Season 2 Review – Netflix’s Workplace Comedy Has Plenty Of Tread Left
I’m perfectly happy to admit that enjoying Tires is contingent on liking the comedy of Shane Gillis. Granted, Gillis co-created the show alongside co-star Steve...
‘Criminal Code’ Season 2 Ending Explained – The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
Cut off one head, and two more take its place. This is the central idea of the Hydra from Greek mythology – and the extreme...
‘Criminal Code’ Season 2 Review – Another Forensically Detailed Outing With A Bit Of An Identity Crisis
Do you remember Criminal Code? It was a surprising international hit for Netflix when it first debuted in 2023, delivering eight episodes of rigorously intensive...
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episode 8 Recap – The Drama Is Really Starting to Cook
The great measure of how much we like the characters in the shows we watch is how we respond to them being legitimately heartbroken, and that’s the territory that Tastefully Yours finally ventures into in Episode 8.
‘Sara — Woman in the Shadows’ Ending Explained – The System Remains Unchanged, But the People Don’t
Sara – Woman in the Shadows is pretty explicitly about institutional corruption and moral decay, which is precisely why its ending is less about revelations...
‘Sara – Woman in the Shadows’ Review – A Grounded Thriller With An Unconventional Hero
We’ve all seen our share of spy shows, but Sara – Woman in the Shadows wants to be a bit different. The clunky title should...
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episode 7 Recap – And Enough Of the Love Triangle, Thankfully
I wasn’t keen on Tastefully Yours across its last couple of episodes, which seemed to miss the point of the show’s breezy small-town charm a little bit.
‘Lost in Starlight’ Review – A Beautiful Animated Romance Treads New Ground
Lost in Starlight is something of a first. It has been branded as Netflix’s first Korean animated feature, which is technically accurate, despite the prevalence...
‘Mad Unicorn’ Review – Thai Netflix Series Tells A Lively True Story
A unicorn in a business context refers to a privately owned startup company valued at over a billion dollars. Whether it’s mad or not seems...
‘Dept. Q’ Ending Explained – A Satisfying Finale Provides A Lot Of Well-Earned Payoff
The ending of Dept. Q is all about payoff, which is perhaps just as well given how long it took us to get here. The mystery of...
‘Dept. Q’ Review – Netflix’s Answer to ‘Slow Horses’ Is A Little Too Long For Its Own Good
The comparison to Slow Horses is unavoidable and unfortunately does Netflix’s Dept. Q no favours. An adaptation from Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit) of the...
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episodes 5 & 6 Recap – Expected Developments Lose Some Small-Town Intimacy
Ladies and gentlemen, Tastefully Yours has reached the stage of any self-respecting romantic K-Drama where the giggly first-date awkwardness permeates the whole thing, which is coming a little earlier than expected after the ending of the previous episode.
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Ending Explained – A Slightly Random Conclusion Caps Off A Mixed-Bag Season
It’s probably fitting that a show as mixed as Heavenly Ever After has an ending to suit, with Episodes 11 and 12 providing some answers...
‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review – Standalone Slasher Fails to Live Up To Its Title
Hey, remember the Fear Street trilogy? What a surprising success that was for Netflix. At least partially a consequence of an unprecedented global health crisis...
‘Sirens’ Review – Crackling Class Satire Gives Way To A Truly Moving Family Drama
In Greek mythology, sirens were creatures who lured sailors to their deaths with beautiful singing and a fetching feminine top half, hiding some sort of...
‘Miss Governor’ Part 1 Ending Explained – A Major Cliffhanger Tees Up Season 2
You know when a show is released in two parts – as is the case with Tyler Perry’s Miss Governor – that the “ending” is really...
‘Miss Governor’ Review – For Once, Tyler Perry Is Actually Trying to Be Funny
Everything Tyler Perry does is funny, usually for entirely the wrong reasons. On that level, at least, Miss Governor feels like a step in the right...