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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.

Let’s be clear here: Girl Taken is a very bleak show. Refreshingly, most of its darkest details occur off-screen and are implied instead of shown,...

I’ve often wondered why Alfie Allen (Night Teeth),  pays his agent, since nobody seems to be cast as feckless creeps with more consistency than him....

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...

Seemingly conceived as an answer to the question “How much torture can be included in an hour of television?”, the finale of Mayor of Kingstown Season 4...

If Landman was trying to give me advice about relationships, I wouldn't take it. None of the ones in this show seem to work out.

Well, that's how you do a penultimate episode, isn't it? Mayor of Kingstown has always been at its best at the tail end of a season, and that seems to be holding true for Season 4, since "Teeth and Tissue" is riveting stuff.

I’ve realised what it is about Landman that I find so fascinating and peculiar. Originally, I mistook it for the show not really having a plot, but in Season 2, especially, that isn’t quite accurate.

Just like with Boston Blue, the midseason finale of Sheriff Country is one of its stronger episodes – and right on the back of an uncharacteristically weak one.

It took all season for Boston Blue to get good, only for it to reach its dramatic high point just in time for the midseason finale.

Every time Sherlock Holmes has shown up in Watson Season 2, it has heralded bad news.

I’m beginning to really enjoy the rhythm of Landman Season 2. This is perhaps because it hasn’t always had a discernible one.

You could feel it coming, couldn't you? All throughout Mayor of Kingstown Season 4, that feeling of impending calamity has been building, and building, and here in Episode 8, "Belleville", it arrives.

I do love a subplot that feels very specific, and Sheriff Country has had its share of those already. But it has a really good one in Episode 8, appropriately titled “Death & Taxes”, which really enjoyably leans into the show’s very specific vibe and sense of place.