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‘Sheriff Country’ Episode 16 Recap – Wes Can’t Get Out Of His Own Way
With the Blood Moon killer finally apprehended, it’s business as usual in Sheriff Country. And that business is weed, obviously. Episode 16, “Twenty Four Candles”,...
‘Boston Blue’ Episode 16 Recap – A Little Focus Goes A Long Way
The big problem with Boston Blue, which I’ve been moaning about every week and which several regular commenters have also rightly mentioned, is that it...
‘The Hunting Party’ Season 2, Episode 11 Recap – Puppets Are Creepy
I’m firmly of the opinion that there has never been a puppet that wasn’t horrific, and I confess to being a tiny bit sceptical of...
‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – Burning the Candle At Both Ends
The essential tension of Your Friends & Neighbors has always revolved around Coop potentially being caught moonlighting as a local thief. But Season 2 has...
‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Season 2, Episode 9 Recap – Skull Island Retreat
Despite Monarch: Legacy of Monsters really coasting on the idea of giant Titan fights, Season 2 has pretty effectively made the case that the best use of...
‘Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85’ Ending Explained – The Queen, Nikki, and Season 2 Setup
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 exists in “frozen time”, continuity-wise, so it’s no wonder that the ending sets up a second season. As we’ve already...
‘Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85’ Is Officially Canon, But You Shouldn’t Worry About It
You didn’t think we had left Hawkins, Indiana, entirely, did you? These days, the idea of letting a franchise die is utterly unconscionable, not when...
‘Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85’ Returns the Franchise to Its Roots
Can you be nostalgic for nostalgia? This question was at the forefront of my mind while soaking in the ten episodes of Netflix’s animated spin-off...
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – Oh, Hey, It’s Jessica Jones
You can tell that Daredevil: Born Again is reaching a fever pitch in Season 2, since “Requiem” feels in many ways like an effort to...
‘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,...
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Episode 4 Recap – Everyone’s An Exhibitionist
Margo’s Got Money Troubles, fittingly for a show about an aspiring writer, has a great facility for catchy insults and screen names. I’ve never heard...
‘Criminal Record’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – Plucked From the Headlines
Realism is a funny word, isn’t it? Most of the time, it doesn’t really mean anything. A realistic war movie, for instance, would give you...
‘Imperfect Women’ Episode 7 Recap – This Guy Is the Worst
Blimey, where do we even begin? I’m starting to feel genuinely sorry for the people who might have abandoned Imperfect Women after its admittedly mediocre premiere...
‘Imperfect Women’ Is an Enthralling Thriller That Requires Patience
Here’s a fair warning about Apple TV’s psychological thriller Imperfect Women: It doesn’t put its best foot forward. Its earliest episodes, which frontload deeply unpleasant...
‘Marshals’ Episode 8 Recap – Things Aren’t Going Especially Well
If you were worried that all the romantic subplots in the previous episode of Marshals were getting a little too soap opera, worry not. Episode...
‘Marshals’ Episode 7 Recap – Is This Getting Romantic?
One could probably argue that there’s an inherent romance in the western genre, something about the sunsets and landscapes and open air. But a show...
‘Rooster’ Episode 7 Recap – Walt Just Wants A Friend
I didn’t expect the most meaningful sentiment of Rooster thus far to come from Walt, of all people, but here we are in Episode 7, three half-hours removed from the finale, and the hothouse has become a source of surprising pathos.
‘Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord’ Episode 6 Recap – The Action You’ve Been Looking For
If you were a bit dismayed about the relative lack of action in the previous instalment of Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, Episode 6, “Night of the Hunted”, has you more than covered. It's almost like it’s making amends, which is weird since the lower-key drama was solid and necessary, but the impressive lightsaber action that bookends the episode is difficult to argue with, especially now we’re so much more invested in the characters.