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‘A Normal Woman’ Has A Predictable Ending With A Touch Of Ambiguity
In many ways, A Normal Woman has exactly the ending you’d expect it to have, albeit spiced up with a touch of ambiguity. And this,...
‘A Normal Woman’ Is Overly Familiar, But An Effective Psychological Thriller
If it’s a random Thursday — or, indeed, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or any other day of the week — it’s probably time for a new...
‘Letters from the Past’ Has A Meaningful But Predictable Ending
Letters from the Past has a pretty predictable ending, but it is, in my view, the right one. This kind of coda, which essentially comes...
‘Letters from the Past’ Is Heartfelt But Lacks A Special Quality
You’ll have to forgive me, because I can’t quite articulate what makes Letters from the Past a bit less effective than it would like to...
‘Critical: Between Life and Death’ – Netflix’s Medical Docuseries Provides a Raw Glimpse into Major Trauma Units
Critical: Between Life and Death is a fly-on-the-wall documentary series that follows the UK’s major trauma units, from intensive rehabilitation to life-or-death surgery. It’s a...
‘Stick’ Delivers the Ending You’d Expect, But Takes A Risky Approach
When Santi’s dad turned up in the penultimate episode, I think everyone knew that Stick was venturing into predictable territory just in time for its ending. And...
Lord Seadown Springs A Trap In ‘The Buccaneers’ Season 2, Episode 6
Blimey, James Seadown is awful, isn't he? This won't be news to long-time viewers of The Buccaneers, but now we're over halfway through Season 2, he has indisputably emerged as the real villain of the piece.
The Ending Of ‘Red Eye’ Season 1 Is A Bit Too Complicated For Its Own Good
Nobody would argue that the ending of Red Eye Season 1 makes a great deal of sense. You can trace the plot particulars, obviously, but...
Netflix’s ‘Hitmakers’ Reflects the Manufactured Age of the Music Industry
There was a time, and there still are purists today, when musicians were judged for not writing their songs, especially in rap and hip-hop, with...
‘Red Eye’ Season 1 Is A Serviceable Airborne Thriller That Swiftly Loses Altitude
Richard Armitage was built for streaming. Stick this guy in a ropey thriller with any concept you like and he’ll do a halfway decent job...
Breaking Down Every Steamy Twist In ‘The Hunting Wives’
Murder! Affairs! Megachurches! The Hunting Wives has an awful lot going on, and a lot of it is deliberately ridiculous and sensational. Across eight episodes, it weaves...
The Ending Of ‘The Hunting Wives’ Is Crazy, But Annoyingly Inconclusive
Where to even begin? It was obvious from the start that The Hunting Wives was going to take some crazy turns, but following a penultimate...
‘The Hunting Wives’ Is An Unashamedly Trashy And Ridiculous Binge
The Hunting Wives, created by Rebecca Cutter and based on the book by May Cobb, wears its original destiny as a Starz show like a...
‘Trainwreck: P.I. Moms’ Tells A Story So Wild It Could Only Be True
Trainwreck: P.I. Moms tells the kind of wacky true story that, if it were the plot of a movie or TV show, you’d write it off...
Guilty As Charged: TV Might Be The Best Way Of Challenging Big Ideas
Prime Video’s Justice on Trial, created by and starring Judge Judy Sheindlin, has a very clever premise. Perhaps more importantly, it’s a premise that could...
‘The Institute’ Barely Gets Going In Episode 3, But Signs Are Promising
I get that prison breaks are a pretty complex undertaking, but The Institute needs to speed things up.
Breaking Down the Secretive, Maddening Ending of Netflix’s ‘Delirium’
Netflix’s eight-episode Colombian drama Delirium is an ambitiously knotty exploration of generational trauma, secrets, and madness, and its ending is a twisty old thing that...
‘Delirium’ Tackles Heavy Subjects In Interesting Ways, But Something’s Missing
It’s easy to be cynical about any show marketed on its sexuality. Not that there’s anything wrong with a bit of sauce, obviously; we’re not...