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Art Imitates Life: ‘Criminal Record’ Season 3 Will Need A Tragedy to Burn For Fuel
Criminal Record isn’t your average police procedural. While it’s a perfectly respectable thriller with compelling characters and performances, its real strength is in how it builds...
The Source Material Of ‘Colors of Evil: Black’ Virtually Guarantees A Sequel
Colors of Evil: Black is a sequel to Colors of Evil: Red, both Polish thrillers adapted by Adrian Panek for Netflix from Malgorzata Oliwia Sobczak’s...
‘Colors of Evil: Black’ Ending Explained – Piotrus’s Kidnapping Exposes Generational Rot
Colors of Evil: Black isn’t a whodunit. From an early stage, it’s pretty obvious who’s at fault, and the answer is pretty much everyone. The...
‘Colors of Evil: Black’ Review – Grim Polish Thriller Isn’t a Conventional Mystery
Continuing a long and effective tradition of thrillers set in provincial towns with dirty secrets buried in their foundations, Colors of Evil: Black is nothing...
Audiences Split on ‘Alice and Steve’ as Season 2 Hangs in the Balance
While the cast of Alice and Steve has hinted at hopes for a second season, audience response following the cliffhanger has been deeply polarizing, casting...
‘Outlast: The Jungle’ Is The Closest We’ll Get to a Real Life ‘Hunger Games’
Despite my excitement for Outlast: The Jungle, it was also a reminder of my discomfort with the format. When the original series landed on Netflix,...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Revealed Richard Warren’s Last Living Descendent, And the Clues Were There All Along
In yet another kick-yourself plot development, Widow’s Bay has just revealed Richard Warren’s last living descendant, and annoyingly, the writing was kind of on the wall all...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – A Raging Storm, And A History Lesson
As Widow’s Bay hurries towards its finale, it’s running out of mysteries to solve. We’ve been reliably told that Season 1 will complete the story, and Episode...
‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – Nailed It
If we’re being honest, things haven’t been going especially well for Paula since the very beginning of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. But they’re definitely going worse for...
‘Criminal Record’ Season 2 Ending Explained – Sometime The Bad Guys Get To Win
I’m not a soothsayer, but I could have told you weeks ago that Criminal Record wasn’t going to have a happy ending. The signs were there....
‘Norway: The Dark Horse’ Examines the 2026 World Cup’s Most Compelling Underdog Story
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again — there is no better storytelling medium than high-level professional sports. All the mechanisms are built...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – The Mature Approach
It was, of course, pretty obvious that most of the promising-looking subplots developed in the previous episode of Not Suitable for Work were going to get a...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – Work-Life Imbalance
After a fairly chaotic three-part premiere in which all manner of things went wrong for the residents of Murray Hill, it has taken until Episode...
‘Alice and Steve’ Season 1 Ending Explained – It’s All Going Up in Smoke
While Alice and Steve doesn’t seem like the kind of show that would necessarily need a second season, the ending of Season 1 makes a...
Nicola Walker Carries ‘Alice and Steve’, Introducing A National Treasure to A Global Audience
While Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement both top the billing of Alice and Steve, an unconventional “wrong-com” about long-time besties finding their friendship torn apart...
‘Alice and Steve’ Season 1 Review – A Sharp, Unconventional “Wrong-Com”
As far as elevator pitches go, there are few as inherently icky as the one underpinning Alice and Steve. But is it that bad, really?...
Netflix’s Multimedia Strategy Means to Dominate 2026 World Cup Coverage
Evidently not content being the premier film and TV streaming service on the planet, Netflix is stepping up its game around coverage of global sporting...
‘From’ Season 4 Is Nearly Over, But We Won’t Get Answers Until Season 5
With From Season 4 hurtling toward another finale, there’s an expectation that, eventually, major answers to the most important questions will arrive. Viewers are understandably...