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‘Down Cemetery Road’ Ending Explained – A Satisfying But Unsurprising Finale

December 10 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

After an outing that felt like a penultimate episode but wasn’t, then a penultimate episode that felt like a finale, it’s probably only right that...

‘Loot’ Season 3 Ending Explained – A Perfectly Fine Finale

December 10 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I’m happy to report that the ending of Loot Season 3 is a lot better than I expected it to be, given the currently ropey state of...

‘DMV’ Episode 9 Recap – Leslie Jones Spices Up A Festive Midseason Finale

December 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Trust DMV to radically improve just in time for the midseason finale.

‘Watson’ Season 2, Episode 9 Recap – It’s All Getting Weird and Rubbish Again

December 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

It turns out Laila is still in Watson Season 2 after all, but her sudden reappearance in Episode 9 causes more problems than it fixes.

‘All’s Fair’ Ending Explained – As Utterly Ridiculous As Expected

December 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Well, it has been an interesting season, hasn’t it? You can accuse All’s Fair of many things, but only rarely are we confronted with such...

‘I Love LA’ Episode 6 Recap – The Darkness Is Emerging

December 8 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I Love LA has been a comedy since the beginning, and it’s still a comedy in Episode 6, but only just.

‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Episode 7 Recap – Two Clowns for the Price Of One

December 8 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Whenever people think of It, they invariably think of a scary dancing clown, but if Welcome to Derry is proving anything, it’s that Pennywise is the least of Derry’s problems.

‘Pro Bono’ Episode 1 & 2 Recap – A Familiar-Feeling Procedural With Charm

December 7 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Pro Bono feels like a pretty safe bet for fans of Jung Kyung-ho and the kind of weekend streaming K-Dramas that feel more like a reassuring hug than anything genuinely provocative.

‘Robin Hood’ Episode 7 Recap – Romance Is In the Air (For Some Reason)

December 7 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

When you think of Robin Hood, you think of arrows and bags of gold and tights. I do, anyway.

‘Landman’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – Give Sam Elliott All the Awards

December 7 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Taylor Sheridan has always had an odd fascination with having his plots turn on totally random events. Sometimes it's an errant bear -- between Yellowstone and Mayor of Kingstown, events have been bear-related surprisingly often -- and sometimes it's a meth lab or a traffic pileup or whatever.

‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 4, Episode 7 Recap – A Plan Is Coming Together

December 7 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

The old chess metaphor is pretty played out, but it's by far the most appropriate one to describe what's happening in Mayor of Kingstown Season 4.

‘Sheriff Country’ Episode 7 Recap – Things Aren’t Done Between Mickey and Travis

December 6 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Sheriff Country has some mixed subplots in terms of quality, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s similarly inarguable that the main thrust of it is really very good.

‘Boston Blue’ Episode 7 Recap – Some Lingering Issues Reappear

December 6 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I’ve spent most of my coverage of Boston Blue complaining about conflict – or the lack of it, as has often been the case here.

‘Jay Kelly’ Review – Noah Baumbach’s Latest Might Just Be A Masterpiece

December 5 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I’ve heard Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly described as a “coming-of-age story… for adults”, which is just a polite way of saying it’s about a man...

‘Pluribus’ Episode 6 Recap – Big Answers and Unexpected Cameos

December 5 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

A couple of things occurred to me while watching Episode 6 of Pluribus. One is that this show would be terrible if anyone other than Vince Gilligan were behind it.

‘The Last Frontier’ Ending Explained – An Impressively Bizarre Finale

December 5 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

I watch TV professionally, and rarely have I ever seen an episode of television as pointless as the finale of The Last Frontier. Early on, it...

The Ending Of ‘The Abandons’ Is Everything Wrong With Contemporary Television

December 4 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

In many ways, The Abandons represents a lot of contemporary TV’s worst impulses, and this is more true of its ending than anything else. Or...

Kurt Sutter Abandoned ‘The Abandons’, And It’s Easy to See Why

December 4 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

It’s no secret that Kurt Sutter (Southpaw) parted ways with his Netflix Western The Abandons close to the end of production, citing “creative differences” that...