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The first major round in the Twisted Metal tournament isn't especially interesting, which, it turns out, is by design.

Killing off major characters is often seen as a pretty cheap way of farming audience engagement.

Dogs have always been a movie-making cheat code, the easiest shortcut to making an audience laugh or cry – or both! – as necessary. The...

I get that it’d be a stretch to say the Xenomorphs are the good guys in Alien: Earth, but it’s a possibility we should probably consider. The upside of relocating this franchise to terra firma is that it provides a much broader sample buffet of extraterrestrial entrées.

It’s amazing that there hasn’t been an Alien TV show until now. It seems so obvious.

We need to talk. Butterfly was already a sneaky show, a family drama masquerading as an espionage thriller, but its ending shifts it into different,...

Prime Video’s espionage thriller Butterfly, based on the BOOM! Studios graphic novel series created by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett, is a family affair as much...

I get that Platonic is largely a show about college friends slowly realizing they’re not in college anymore, but by Season 2, you’d think it would have...

Jim Jefferies occupies a great place in comedy these days. Having made his name as a — all together now — “controversial” comic back when...

First appearances can be deceiving. What Butterfly looks like, on the surface, is a pretty generic espionage thriller, not meaningfully different in Prime Video’s oeuvre...

If there’s anything particular that Beyond the Bar does well, it’s navigating that incredibly wispy line between right and wrong.

Breaking out of The Institute has been such a fixed goal for so long that I'd forgotten -- and presumably Luke had, too, or had perhaps never realized in the first place -- that it was only the first step to freedom.

I can’t help but feel that Beyond the Bar is flying under the radar a bit.

It wouldn't be fair to claim that The Winning Try has been unserious to this point, because it had me pretty much sobbing already, but it definitely hasn't been as serious as it is in Episode 6.

In crime circles, one has to imagine that a diamond heist, from within Antwerp’s famous Diamond District no less, constitutes something of a final boss....

While it's ostensibly a show about rugby, The Winning Try is really a show about people. And this is becoming more and more obvious as we progress, with Episode 5 being perhaps the best example of it.

Dexter has always been about death in one way or another, but its spectre is felt more acutely than ever in Episode 6 of Dexter: Resurrection, and not just in the usual sense.

There are very few shows that start as badly as Smoke did, only to end up being quite this good.