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There is arguably no audience more passionate than die-hard K-Drama fans, which means that first impressions are unusually important when it comes to new releases....

Season 3 of House of the Dragon continues to be about big moments almost exclusively. The premiere, which revolved around the Battle of the Gullet, killed off...

Giant battles full of dragons and destruction are all well and good, but the heart of a story like House of the Dragon lives in the aftermath. It beats to the rhythm of bodies washing up against the rocks of a shoreline and hides in the wreckage of naval fleets razed to matchsticks.

The finale of From Season 4 killed off several main characters, some of them in messy circumstances, but of everyone’s outcomes, it was definitely Fatima’s ambiguous fate...

Quite a lot happened in the finale of From Season 4, including several major character deaths. But the big long-term takeaway is how it reshapes the overarching...

The Bear has always been subtle when it comes to romance, and with each passing season, new relationships have felt increasingly unlikely. That is largely...

You know exactly where Agent Kim Reactivated is going in Episode 1 and 2, but this isn’t a criticism. It’s one of those stories – think John Wick or Nobody – that hinges on the catharsis of a seemingly ordinary, run-of-the-mill guy secretly being an all-action killing machine, so the premiere is about fostering that vibe.

Okay, folks, we’ve got a lot to go over. Even though it can’t be said that the finale of From Season 4 was full of surprises, since...

I often dislike ambiguous endings, but I believe what The Bear Season 5 did with Carmy’s storyline was both clever and wholesome. Episode 8 closes...

Admittedly, I was ready to rip into The Bear at the start of Season 5, but Episode 7 flipped my opinion on the final chapter...

Netflix’s Little Brother is an unashamedly silly movie, and given the R-rating, I must confess to having entered it expecting the John Cena equivalent of...

Whenever I find myself on the wrong side of a consensus, I can usually see it coming. I’ve been writing about film and TV professionally...

John Sugar is an immigrant, a literal alien, which is probably worth keeping in the back of your mind when watching Season 2 of Sugar. Not that the show is going to let you forget it, at least not based on Episode 2, “Downer Town”, which is very much backdropped by the idea of people making their way in strange places that are often hostile to them, and feeling, privately, that they’re completely on their own in doing so.

In many ways, it feels like “Awl in a Sack” is the episode that Star City has been building up to throughout Season 1. It’s...

I get that it’s a little too easy to complain about Carter every week, but I just can’t help it. Dutton Ranch continues to orbit inexplicably around...

The mystery about Nevaeh potentially being Max Cady’s daughter lasted until the opening scene of Cape Fear Episode 5, where it’s confirmed outright. You’d think...

In the grand scheme of things, Season 2 only represents the midpoint of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It adapts Book Two: Earth of the animated...

It’s easy to forget that Aang’s a kid, sometimes. Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of those hero’s journey fantasy stories that thrust youngsters into the deep...