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The Pogues Are Maturing in ‘Outer Banks’ Season 4, And That Can Only Be A Good Thing
Season 4 shows that Outer Banks is maturing. The characters are the same. The vibe is the same. Heck, it even follows similar plot beats....
Recap: ‘Tell Me Lies’ Season 2, Episode 7 Is Excruciating, As Usual
I can say with a relative degree of certainty that Tell Me Lies is the most stressful show in existence, for all kinds of reasons, many of...
‘Slow Horses’ Season 4 Has A Bleak Ending, But It’s Expertly Crafted
Slow Horses Season 4 doesn’t have a happy ending. It’s actually rather bleak. No justice is done. Painful sacrifices are made. There really seems to be...
‘Bad Monkey’ Ends Conclusively, But There’s Still Room For More Yancy
Bravo to Bad Monkey, because it’s the rare streaming show with a proper ending. Episode 10, “We’re in the Memory-Making Business”, brings all of the key...
Recap: ‘English Teacher’ Episode 7 Questions If Teaching Is A Dying Profession
Just like the field trip earlier in the season, the aptly-titled “Convention” gets the teachers out of the classroom. But even though Evan thinks that...
‘Ali Wong: Single Lady’ Review – A Crude And Distasteful Stand-Up
The opening of Single Lady, Beyonce’s – “Get Me Bodied” says everything that needs to be said about Ali Wong’s Netflix Special. I applaud Ali...
‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 4, Episode 7 Explained: A Safe House That’s Not So Safe
Only Murders in the Building is never short of craziness and chaos. Season 4, Episode 7, aptly titled “Valley of the Dolls,” may have gotten...
‘Love Next Door’ Has The Happy Ending Everyone Expected
Love Next Door comes to a close with Episode 15 and Episode 16, and lo and behold, the K-Drama has a perfectly happy, upbeat ending....
Recap: Killing Made Men Has Consequences In ‘Tulsa King’ Season 2, Episode 4
I confess to having thought that Tulsa King Season 2 would start to intensify a little in Episode 4, but everyone’s wrong from time to time. “Heroes...
Recap: ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ Season 2 Improves Slightly In Episode 2
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is improving, so that’s something. Season 2 is still wildly imperfect, but I didn’t spend Episode 2, “Moulin Rouge”, getting...
‘CTRL’ Isn’t Very Good, But Its Cynical Ending Is The Right One
I respect the ending of CTRL, even though I don’t like the movie very much. It seems right to me that a techno thriller about...
Review: ‘CTRL’ Is A Topical Thriller That Never Quite Gets Going
Ever since Unfriended popularized the once-novel concept of a film unfolding entirely on someone else’s screens, there hasn’t exactly been a shortage of imitators. CTRL...
Recap: ‘Grotesquerie’ Keeps Getting Weirder In Episodes 3 & 4
Travis Kelce is a handsome fellow, isn’t he? I bring this up since his much-advertised presence in Grotesquerie is the rare light spot in what...
Recap: ‘The Old Man’ Season 2, Episode 5 Feels Reminiscent Of Season 1
Is Angela/Emily/Parwana dead? That’s certainly the question we’re left with by the end of The Old Man Season 2, Episode 5, though anyone who has...
Recap: Aubrey Plaza Steals The Show In ‘Agatha All Along’ Episode 4
I keep hearing that Agatha All Along is the gayest thing Marvel has done. I’m not sure what this means, or how this can be...
‘Trouble’ Ending Explained: How Conny Clears His Name and Proves His Innocence
You’d think that the ending of Trouble, which sees Conny carrying a television around a hotel with police officer Diana, would be rather silly. But...
‘Trouble’ Review – An Amusing Swedish Crime Comedy
Swedish Crime-Comedy Trouble caught me off guard in many ways because it’s not hilarious by any means, but it’s written with enough humor to be...
Recap: ‘Slow Horses’ Season 4, Episode 5 Is Firing On All Cylinders
Slow Horses operates at such a consistently high level that it didn’t occur to me until midway through Episode 5 of Season 4, “Grave Danger”,...