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Taylor Sheridan has always had an odd fascination with having his plots turn on totally random events. Sometimes it's an errant bear -- between Yellowstone and Mayor of Kingstown, events have been bear-related surprisingly often -- and sometimes it's a meth lab or a traffic pileup or whatever.

The old chess metaphor is pretty played out, but it's by far the most appropriate one to describe what's happening in Mayor of Kingstown Season 4.

Sheriff Country has some mixed subplots in terms of quality, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s similarly inarguable that the main thrust of it is really very good.

I’ve spent most of my coverage of Boston Blue complaining about conflict – or the lack of it, as has often been the case here.

I’ve heard Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly described as a “coming-of-age story… for adults”, which is just a polite way of saying it’s about a man...

A couple of things occurred to me while watching Episode 6 of Pluribus. One is that this show would be terrible if anyone other than Vince Gilligan were behind it.

I watch TV professionally, and rarely have I ever seen an episode of television as pointless as the finale of The Last Frontier. Early on, it...

In many ways, The Abandons represents a lot of contemporary TV’s worst impulses, and this is more true of its ending than anything else. Or...

It’s no secret that Kurt Sutter (Southpaw) parted ways with his Netflix Western The Abandons close to the end of production, citing “creative differences” that...

Season 3 of Loot continues to be an exercise in making a once-great show as cripplingly uninteresting as possible.

Murder in a Small Town doesn’t suit the cliffhanger ending, does it?

How do you prove you didn’t kill someone who has disappeared? How do you prove that someone who has disappeared is a murderer?

The last episode of Down Cemetery Road felt like a penultimate episode, so it stands to reason that Episode 7, “Lights Go Out”, should feel like...

Just in case you were wondering whether DMV itself is aware of how annoying Colette is, Episode 8 has you covered.

I’m not the biggest fan of Watson, as anyone who has been reading these Season 2 recaps can probably tell, but I’m happy to admit...

Netflix loves Christmas for financial reasons and Matt Rife for contractual ones, so it’s unsurprising to see the two combined in Matt Rife: Unwrapped –...

Sorry, but what is going on here? All's Fair hasn't exactly been easy to take seriously since the beginning, but Episode 7 takes the show's blurring of drama and comedy to such an extreme that I have no real idea of whether it's finally revealing itself as an outright parody or is simply so rubbish that the distinction has become meaningless.

Troll was extremely popular for Netflix, which means the entire franchise is now cursed. You can tell from the ending of Troll 2, which seems...