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‘Bad Thoughts’ Review – Tom Segura’s Demented Netflix Sketch Show Has More Hits Than Misses
You can always rely on a comedian, especially a relatively edgy one, to push some boundaries. Tom Segura, who’s no stranger to Netflix, does that...
Micro-Reviewing Every Sketch In Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’
Tom Segura has teamed up with Netflix to deliver a deranged anthology of sketch comedy that feels like The Twilight Zone had a love child...
‘Untold: The Liver King’ Review – A Hilarious Charade, Both Intentionally and Unintentionally
Brian Johnson, aka The Liver King, is a fascinating subject for Netflix’s Untold because he’s at once both a ridiculous charlatan and an indescribably compelling...
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episode 1 Recap – Comfort Food In Television Form
Sometimes what people want from their entertainment is comfort and familiarity, and that definitely seems to be the kind of audience Tastefully Yours is courting, at least as far as Episode 1 is concerned.
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Episodes 7 & 8 Recap – And Things Are Starting To Sag
Maybe it’s just me, but Heavenly Ever After is starting to feel like a lot. It could be the episode runtimes, granted, which stretch to almost feature-length twice a week.
‘Nonnas’ Review – Netflix’s Frictionless Foodie Drama Is Just Charming Enough
Sometimes a movie exists for no better reason than to simply mind its business, and that’s very much the vibe I get from Nonnas. It’s...
‘Bad Influence’ Ending Explained – Netflix’s Teen Romance Goes Completely Off the Rails
I know what you’re thinking – a teen romance about two radically different but implausibly attractive people has to have a happy ending, right? The...
‘Bad Influence’ Review – Netflix’s Spanish Teen Erotica Hits The Usual Notes
There’s a very simple and obvious formula for a movie like Bad Influence, which shouldn’t be confused with Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, a...
‘Untold: Shooting Guards’ Review – This Is The Pettiest High-Profile Sports Story Of All Time
It wouldn’t quite be accurate to call Untold: Shooting Guards a tale of two halves, but it’s pretty close. At a certain point in the...
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Episodes 5 & 6 Recap – To Hell and Back Again
I do wonder if Heavenly Ever After might be too mawkish for its own good. I continue to enjoy the K-Drama, don’t get me wrong, but in Episodes 5 & 6, I began to drift a little.
‘Exterritorial’ Review – A Very Competent Action Thriller With A Handful Of Underused Ideas
Straightforward European action movies are ten-a-penny on Netflix – we had, say, Ad Vitam recently, but it’s rubbish, so don’t think about it too much...
‘The Eternaut’ Ending Explained – A Vague Climax Provides Few Meaningful Answers
I’m not sure what I was expecting from the ending of The Eternaut, but it probably wasn’t what we got. The Netflix series entered Episode 6...
‘The Eternaut’ Episode 5 Recap – Temporary Refuge Reveals Surprising New Ideas
Just when you thought you had things a little figured out, The Eternaut throws you for another loop. The previous episode revealed that bug-like aliens were invading.
‘The Eternaut’ Episode 4 Recap – A Pest Control Problem Emerges
Just in case you were wondering what the creature we glimpsed at the end of the previous episode was, we now have an answer.
‘The Eternaut’ Episode 3 Recap – A Widening Scope Offers A Glimpse Of A Bigger Threat
Episode 3 of The Eternaut, "Magnetism", is about widening the show's scope geographically and in terms of its mythology.
‘The Eternaut’ Review – A Slow-Burn Apocalyptic Drama That Requires Patience
There must be something compelling about the end of the world, since nothing seems more popular in our entertainment these days than the brutal post-apocalypse....
‘The Eternaut’ Episode 2 Recap – The Intensity Builds Significantly
If the first episode of The Eternaut was about the slow, creeping paranoia of questions without answers, Episode 2 is about how that paranoia spills out into violence and chaos at a moment's notice.
‘The Eternaut’ Episode 1 Recap – A Deadly Winter Wonderland Builds Mystery
People are always calling me a killjoy for disliking snow, but I’d like to point my detractors to The Eternaut. In this Argentinian Netflix series, the...