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I always feel bad comparing Sheriff Country to Boston Blue directly, since it doesn’t seem like a fair comparison, but they’re both procedurals airing on...

It didn’t take a genius to work out that Boston Blue wrapping up its most compelling overarching subplot was going to leave it a little...

I’ve long held a personal theory that DMV is much better when it isn’t focusing on Colette, and Episode 11, “Power Shift”, makes me feel...

Watson has always had a fairly detectable medical-mystery pattern, so it was perfectly fair to imagine that Season 2’s mid-season premiere would really embrace that...

John Dutton died, and then Yellowstone itself died shortly after him, but that doesn’t mean that Taylor Sheridan was ever going to leave the neo-Western...

Sheriff Country is making a big claim for itself in Episode 10. The midseason premiere, “Crucible, Part 2”, picks up five minutes after the midseason finale, and manages to not only immediately resituate us in that tense siege situation but also keep the suspense up unrelentingly for the entire episode.

And we’re back. After a several-month hiatus, Boston Blue returns in Episode 10 not just to conclude the cliffhanger left by the midseason finale, but also to tie up one of Season 1’s big overarching plots – the murder of Judge Ben Silver.

Evidently not finished with cameos from the broader franchise, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy provides another one in Episode 8, “The Life of the Stars”. But...

I’m always surprised when the latest episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy turns out to be an hour long. I’m not sure why, since they’re...

DMV has been off the air for a long while, and Episode 10 feels less like a triumphant return than a reminder that this show...

Wait, what happened to Star Trek: Starfleet Academy? I was more on board with this show than most to begin with, but I felt as...

If there has been a persistent complaint about modern Star Trek, it’s that it doesn’t feel very much like Star Trek of old. This accusation has been levelled at Starfleet Academy with great gusto, so it’s probably no surprise that Episode 5, “Series Acclimation Mil”, seems designed to be a deliberate counter to it.

The Klingons are one of the few alien races that even non-Star Trek fans have generally heard of. But the pop understanding is generally pretty simplistic – big-headed, angry warmongers, lots of makeup, deep voices.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comes into its own in Episode 3. Granted, I was among those – apparently few – people who thought the two-part premiere was pretty good, but “Vitus Reflux” is a bit of a step up, since it really embraces the young-adult vibe in a way that both makes sense and feel suitably Trek-y, and also begins fleshing out the individual characters so that they feel like more than just a single race or gimmick.

You can say a lot of things about Landman. In my coverage of Season 2, I’ve probably said most of them already. It’s weird. It’s sometimes...

Star Trek has been around since 1966, and the San Francisco campus from which this spin-off takes its name has somehow never been depicted on-screen...

I was fairly sure I was going to hate Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Who can blame me? In Episode 1, “Kids These Days”, first impressions aren’t great, and kids these days seem to be the problem.

For such a laidback show, Landman relishes chaos. There's something about the rhythm of an argument, the back and forth of problems being deliberated over and weighed up but never quite solved, that suits it. It lives in the space between problems, the snatched moments of uneasy peace until the next issue presents itself.