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Review: ‘Miss Night and Day’ Is Another Guaranteed K-Drama Hit

June 18 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Sometimes you just know a show is going to be a hit. This instinct rarely has anything to do with quality, either. Miss Night and...

‘Kubra’ Makes A Promised Land Out Of Istanbul

June 17 2024, by Louie Fecou

Kubra, a Turkish Netflix series based on a well-respected 2020 novel of the same name, tells the story of former marine turned car mechanic Gökhan...

Recap: ‘Miss Night and Day’ Impresses In Its First Two Episodes

June 16 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

With Episodes 1 and 2, Miss Night and Day establishes itself as the kind of K-Drama that people catch by chance and fall in love...

Recap: ‘Hotel Cocaine’ Gets Off To An Energetic Start In A Drug-Fuelled Premiere

June 16 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I’m not sure I’d describe Hotel Cocaine as prestige TV, even though it’s tempting to put every hour-long drama with real actors in that bracket...

Recap: Villains Get the Limelight In ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 3, Episode 3

June 16 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

In many ways, Episode 3 of Mayor of Kingstown Season 3 feels like a direct response to Episode 2, which narrowed its focus on Mike...

Recap: Drugs Are Deadlier Than Usual in ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 3, Episode 2

June 16 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Mayor of Kingstown is a splashy show set in a corrupt prison town. It’s full of gang wars and shootouts and other fun things. And...

Recap: Peace Goes Up In Flames In ‘Billy the Kid’ Season 2 Episode 7

June 16 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

With Lincoln under military lockdown and a strict, permanent curfew imposed, Billy and the Regulators are confined to their HQ in the McSween house in...

Recap: Tensions Boil Over In ‘Billy the Kid’ Season 2 Episode 6

June 16 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The war for Lincoln County begins in earnest in Episode 6 of Billy the Kid Season 2, which is a flurry of gunfights and testy...

5 Crime Comedies like Netflix’s ‘Hit Man’ That Are Loosely Based On A True Story — Or Seem Like They Could Be

June 15 2024, by Louie Fecou

Netflix have a surprise hit on their hands, in more ways than one, with Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, a comedy crime thriller inspired by the...

Unpacking Every Scary Story In ‘Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams’

June 15 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Across seven episodes, Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams presents seemingly disconnected tales of horror and science-fiction, unified only, at first, by their Jakarta setting. But...

‘Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams’ Is An Ambitious Horror Anthology

June 15 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Indonesian film and TV is the most underrated in the world, for my money, and Joko Anwar proves it in Nightmares and Daydreams, an ambitious...

‘Ultraman: Rising’ Ending and What The Post-Credits Scene Means For The Sequel

June 14 2024, by Daniel Hart

While the ending of Ultraman: Rising was the generic thrilling battle you’d expect from a movie with Kaiju, a genuine emotional factor was riding over...

‘Ultraman: Rising’ Is Surprisingly Cute and Endearing

June 14 2024, by Daniel Hart

Taking on your father’s mantle can be difficult, and that’s what Ken Sato has to do in Ultraman: Rising, the latest addition to the Ultraman...

Explore Post-Apocalyptic Settings And Doomsday Scenarios With 7 Shows Like ‘Sweet Tooth’

June 14 2024, by Louie Fecou

Netflix’s comic book-based fantasy series Sweet Tooth sees a half-human half-deer boy trying to find his way through a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by other hybrids....

The Ending of ‘Doctor Climax’ Is A Battle Between Conservatism and Progress

June 14 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

A shy dermatologist leading a sexual revolution struggles against flagrant conservative corruption in the ending of Doctor Climax, and the fact you’re watching a streaming...

Review: ‘Doctor Climax’ Treats Taboos With Humour But Overstays Its Welcome

June 14 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

A show titled Doctor Climax knows what it’s doing. Sex sells, after all, especially on streaming platforms, and Netflix knows how to market an obscure...

‘The Boys’ Season 4, Episodes 1-3 Explained: Key Moments and Highlights

June 13 2024, by Daniel Hart

Plenty is riding on Season 4 of The Boys because it arrived when Prime Video announced the fifth would be last. The first three episodes...

The ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 Ending is Happy and Triumphant For One Character

June 13 2024, by Daniel Hart

At the start of Episode 8 of Bridgerton Season 3, Lady Danbury ironically brings Queen Charlotte a theory while playing chess. She believes that Lady...