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‘Surface’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – A Couple of Big (Albeit Questionable) Swings Shake Things Up

March 14 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

You’ve got to appreciate Surface taking some chances in Season 2, even if the results might end up being a little mixed.

‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 9 Recap – As Overstuffed As “Sweet Vitriol” Was Empty

March 14 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

For the first time in Season 2, Severance delivered what many would consider to be a bad episode.

Control Freak (2025) Review – Kelly Marie Tran Gamely Leads A Head-Scratching Supernatural Horror

March 13 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

You know how someone scratching around you makes you itch? Imagine a whole movie of that and you’ve basically got Control Freak, Hulu’s straight-to-streaming supernatural...

‘Reacher’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap – Reacher’s Cover Being Blown Is a Good Thing

March 13 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

In many ways, Episode 6 of Reacher Season 3 is a payoff to the excellent fourth episode. That was where you really felt the menace of Xavier Quinn, the season’s Big Bad who has largely been developed through absence and implication.

‘Adolescence’ Review – Harrowing Proof That Stephen Graham Is the Most Underrated Actor in the World

March 12 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Netflix’s Adolescence is being sold on the back of an interesting stylistic gimmick – each of its four episodes is shot in an uninterrupted real-time...

‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Episode 3 Recap – The System Works Right Up Until It Doesn’t

March 12 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

It’s sometimes easy to forget that Matt Murdock is a lawyer since most of the justice he dispenses comes via his fists.

‘Mythic Quest’ Season 4, Episode 8 – “Pootie Shoe” Wants a Change

March 12 2025, by Daniel Hart

I was blindsided that we were offered a filler episode after the emotional ending in the last episode. But Mythic Quest Season 4, Episode 8 is decent, even if it does not move the story forward.

Iliza Shlesinger’s ‘A Different Animal’ Might Be Her Boldest Stand-Up Yet

March 11 2025, by Daniel Hart

Iliza Shlesinger was my favorite female stand-up comedian until Taylor Tomlinson (Quarter-Life Crisis;  Look at You) entered the scene, and even then, it was a...

‘The White Lotus’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap – We’re Oh So Close to Pulling the Trigger

March 11 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

The White Lotus is always about a murder. Season 3 is potentially about several; we know this because the premiere featured a bunch of gunshots and at least one floating corpse.

‘Watson’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – Finally Something Interesting to Say, But Still No Idea How to Say It

March 10 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

“The Man with the Glowing Chest” isn’t about a man with a glowing chest, though one does briefly feature.

‘The Potato Lab’ Episode 4 Recap – Chemistry and Charm Are Keeping This K-Drama Comfortably Afloat

March 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

There’s an easy charm to The Potato Lab that feels like alchemy; narrative gold from leaden rom-com tropes.

‘1923’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – Welcome to America, Unless You’re Irish Or A Woman

March 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

America is the land of opportunity. It’s also, apparently, the land of thieves, sexual deviants, racists, judgy bureaucrats, and very long-winded travel options.

‘The Potato Lab’ Episode 3 Recap – Here We See a Show Really Finding Its Feet

March 8 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I get it. I get why The Potato Lab works, and it’s a surprisingly obvious realization, highlighted really capably by Episode 3.

‘When Life Gives You Tangerines’ Volume 1 Recap – A Love Letter to Jeju Island Examines a Life Back to Front

March 8 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Ever proving that there’s more than one way to skin a cat – or, in this case, air a K-Drama – Netflix elected to release When Life Gives You Tangerines, the expensively-produced IU-starring drama doubling as a love letter to Jeju Island, in four four-part volumes.

‘Beauty in Black’ Part 2 Ending Explained – The Chances of Season 2 Are Distressingly High

March 7 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Tyler Perry continues to torment streaming audiences worldwide with execrable garbage like Divorce in the Black and A Fall from Grace, but Beauty in Black...

What the Shocking Ending of Netflix’s ‘Delicious’ Means

March 7 2025, by Daniel Hart

It was only when Esther checked Lucien’s fridge during the third act of Delicious that I realized the film’s plot twist. I was confused when...

‘Delicious’ is an Outstanding Directorial Debut from Nele Mueller-Stöfen Nele that Delivers a Deliciously Dark Tale

March 7 2025, by Daniel Hart

If there is ever a resounding example of a hidden gem on Netflix, look no further than the German thriller film Delicious. What makes it...

‘Surface’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – A Long-Awaited Confrontation Provides Interesting Food for Thought

March 7 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Surface Season 2 hasn’t been very good, at least not if you ask me, but Episode 3, “Kintsugi”, provides an interesting turning point.