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Recap: ‘English Teacher’ Episode 7 Questions If Teaching Is A Dying Profession

October 8 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Just like the field trip earlier in the season, the aptly-titled “Convention” gets the teachers out of the classroom. But even though Evan thinks that...

‘Ali Wong: Single Lady’ Review – A Crude And Distasteful Stand-Up

October 8 2024, by Naomi Mairs

The opening of Single Lady, Beyonce’s – “Get Me Bodied” says everything that needs to be said about Ali Wong’s Netflix Special. I applaud Ali...

‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 4, Episode 7 Explained: A Safe House That’s Not So Safe

October 8 2024, by Daniel Hart

Only Murders in the Building is never short of craziness and chaos. Season 4, Episode 7, aptly titled “Valley of the Dolls,” may have gotten...

‘Love Next Door’ Has The Happy Ending Everyone Expected

October 6 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Love Next Door comes to a close with Episode 15 and Episode 16, and lo and behold, the K-Drama has a perfectly happy, upbeat ending....

Recap: Killing Made Men Has Consequences In ‘Tulsa King’ Season 2, Episode 4

October 6 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I confess to having thought that Tulsa King Season 2 would start to intensify a little in Episode 4, but everyone’s wrong from time to time. “Heroes...

Recap: ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ Season 2 Improves Slightly In Episode 2

October 6 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is improving, so that’s something. Season 2 is still wildly imperfect, but I didn’t spend Episode 2, “Moulin Rouge”, getting...

‘CTRL’ Isn’t Very Good, But Its Cynical Ending Is The Right One

October 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I respect the ending of CTRL, even though I don’t like the movie very much. It seems right to me that a techno thriller about...

Review: ‘CTRL’ Is A Topical Thriller That Never Quite Gets Going

October 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Ever since Unfriended popularized the once-novel concept of a film unfolding entirely on someone else’s screens, there hasn’t exactly been a shortage of imitators. CTRL...

Recap: ‘Grotesquerie’ Keeps Getting Weirder In Episodes 3 & 4

October 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Travis Kelce is a handsome fellow, isn’t he? I bring this up since his much-advertised presence in Grotesquerie is the rare light spot in what...

Recap: ‘The Old Man’ Season 2, Episode 5 Feels Reminiscent Of Season 1

October 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Is Angela/Emily/Parwana dead? That’s certainly the question we’re left with by the end of The Old Man Season 2, Episode 5, though anyone who has...

Recap: Aubrey Plaza Steals The Show In ‘Agatha All Along’ Episode 4

October 4 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I keep hearing that Agatha All Along is the gayest thing Marvel has done. I’m not sure what this means, or how this can be...

‘Trouble’ Ending Explained: How Conny Clears His Name and Proves His Innocence

October 3 2024, by Daniel Hart

You’d think that the ending of Trouble, which sees Conny carrying a television around a hotel with police officer Diana, would be rather silly. But...

‘Trouble’ Review – An Amusing Swedish Crime Comedy

October 3 2024, by Daniel Hart

Swedish Crime-Comedy Trouble caught me off guard in many ways because it’s not hilarious by any means, but it’s written with enough humor to be...

Recap: ‘Slow Horses’ Season 4, Episode 5 Is Firing On All Cylinders

October 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Slow Horses operates at such a consistently high level that it didn’t occur to me until midway through Episode 5 of Season 4, “Grave Danger”,...

Recap: ‘Murder in a Small Town’ Season 1, Episode 2 Is A Step Down

October 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Murders in picturesque local towns are like buses. You wait ages for one, and then several come along at once. That’s how it must feel...

Recap: ‘Tell Me Lies’ Season 2, Episode 6 Is Like Being Slowly Tortured

October 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

On the one hand, Tell Me Lies Season 2, Episode 6, once again appropriately titled “Do Your Dirty Words Come Out to Play?”, is a bristlingly effective...

Recap: ‘Where’s Wanda?’ Episode 2 Adds A Few New Suspects

October 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Every episode of Where’s Wanda? is named after a family. The premiere focused on the Klatts, which is understandable since they’re at the very center of the...

Recap: There’s A Storm Coming In ‘Bad Monkey’ Episode 9

October 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

“The Calm Before the Storm” is a well-known expression, but it applies to Episode 9 of Bad Monkey more than usual since there is literally a storm...