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A lot of Brilliant Minds Season 2 has been about the future. The teases of Wolf’s eventual incarceration in Hudson Oaks, no doubt thanks to...

Brilliant Minds is typically quite elegantly plotted, and has been throughout most of Season 2. But I think it’s fair to say that in Episode...

There are only two episodes of Pro Bono left, which seems to have come out of nowhere. It’s part of the procedural format, I guess. The case-of-the-week structure keeps you distracted while the overarching story sneaks up on you. You can feel that quite strongly in Episodes 9 & 10.

One of the most interesting questions about the law in general is who it is supposed to serve. Is it a tool of equality, to be applied equally to all? Does it have a responsibility to protect the most downtrodden and easily exploitable?

There is no more damning indictment of the state of contemporary media than The Night Manager being back on our screens a decade after contentedly...

The Night Manager has never been a particularly vibes-heavy show, unless, of course, the vibes you’re looking for are rather grounded and intense ones. But...

Mental health seems to be a growing concern in the espionage business. The Agency was almost entirely about the psychological toll of being a spy,...

Nothing about Landman should work. I’ve said this already, in my coverage of the first outing and indeed Season 2, but it’s worth reiterating since this is such a...

The good news is that Red Eye Season 2, despite being a step down from the first outing overall, has a better, slightly less ridiculous...

It might take an effort to remember now, since it passed by without much fuss, but the first season of Red Eye, which aired on...

For such an unrelentingly bleak show, the ending of Land of Sin is probably a bit happier than anyone was really expecting. While it’s impressively...

Nordic noir is one of the few genres of television that really prizes cliché. You almost don’t want a Scandinavian crime thriller to try anything...

Netflix’s unconventional Argentine crime caper Time Flies has a better ending than most Netflix shows. This doesn’t make a lacking show much better, but it...

There’s something quite compelling about Time Flies, an Argentine Netflix series based on two fused novels by Claudia Piñeiro (the author also behind Elena Knows...

Ending a series isn’t an easy thing to do, and ending a series like Stranger Things is almost impossible. Originally conceived as a one-off, the...

Thanks to a relatively revelatory penultimate episode, Harlan Coben’s Run Away doesn’t have a great deal to do in its finale. Episode 8, “It Stays...

The penultimate episode of Harlan Coben’s Run Away is… about what you’d expect, really. A lot is revealed, albeit not everything, a bunch of people die, and the stakes are set for a clarifying finale that will – hopefully! – give us the answers we seek about everything.

Okay, Run Away, you got me. Harlan Coben shows typically have a moment like the one in Episode 6, the major plot development you think they won’t possibly commit to.