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Poppa’s House mires a good message in questionable presentation in Episode 8, but there’s still some value in its ideas.

Get Millie Black gives Janet a voice in Episode 4, but in a smart touch, she isn’t quite the victim we thought.

Episode 14, “Life Is a Promise”, is about as good of an ending as we could have hoped for given the circumstances.

It’s fair to say that Dune: Prophecy hasn’t exactly resonated with viewers the way HBO probably wanted.

Episode 3, “World Without End”, moves the timeline further along and introduces a few new characters, but things still seem to be going too right too often for any real edge to take root in the setting.

Landman needed an edge, and Episode 6, “Beware the Second Beating”, provides it capably. It was obvious that Cooper’s savage beating wasn’t going to go unanswered, but I was a little surprised by the speed, ferocity, and completeness of Tommy’s retribution.

I’ve mentioned before that there’s an old-school quality to When the Phone Rings that it’s difficult to put a finger on. Episode 6 has it...

The best part of 1992 is undoubtedly the villain, which coincidentally is the part it focuses on the least. But it counts for something. There...

When the Phone Rings Episode 5 arrives after an additional week’s wait thanks to real-life South Korean political calamity, and while the episode obviously couldn’t...

I’ve been thinking about The Agency a lot, partly to try and figure out why I think it’s so dull, and what’s meaningfully different about...

I still like Creature Commandos, and I still think it has a lot of potential, but Episode 3 made me wonder if the concept was...

By the high standards already set by Silo Season 2, “Descent” is comparatively slow-paced. But don’t mistake Episode 5 for filler, since it’s anything but....

Before is, in a word, stupid. This won’t come as news to anyone at this point, but it’s especially ironic since it thinks it’s so...

I know what you’re thinking – everyone dies, right? Well, no, as it happens. The ending of La Palma subverts expectations in that sense, with...

What if your idyllic vacation retreat was trying to kill you? This is, essentially, the premise of Netflix’s Norwegian limited series La Palma, though admittedly...

I have no idea where or how Skeleton Crew fits into the wider Star Wars mythos, and I think that’s probably a good thing. I...

Ian helps the sisters cover their tracks, bringing him closer to Eva but further into Houlihan's spotlight.

Watching an episode of Shrinking is hard work, sometimes. Here I was thinking that Episode 10 of Season 2, “Changing Patterns”, was an exclusively positive installment. It...