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‘Surface’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – A Couple of Big (Albeit Questionable) Swings Shake Things Up
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Surface Season 2 hasn’t been very good, at least not if you ask me, but Episode 3, “Kintsugi”, provides an interesting turning point.