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‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 2 Recap – Valerie Can’t Keep A Secret
It’s hard to talk about a mockumentary – even though The Comeback has stopped being one in Season 3, at least for long stretches –...
‘Rooster’ Episode 4 Recap – I Do Believe We’re Getting Somewhere
I keep expecting to like Rooster more than I do. Luckily, Episode 4 reassured me that it does seem to be going somewhere, even if I don’t...
‘DTF St. Louis’ Episode 5 Recap – Things Are Getting Pretty Full On
One of the broader arcs in Episode 5 of DTF St. Louis is Detective Homer realising that the murder of Floyd Smernitch isn’t as open-and-shut as he...
‘Rooster’ Episode 3 Recap – Greg’s First Day On Campus Goes Badly Wrong
Thus far, Rooster has been much more of a comedy than a drama. The elusive balance that really characterises great Bill Lawrence shows like Ted Lasso and Shrinking is conspicuously absent...
‘DTF St. Louis’ Episode 4 Recap – I Think This Might Be the Best Show On TV
It’s a testament to how good DTF St. Louis is that the cold open of Episode 4, rather drily titled “Missouri Mutual Life & Health Insurance Company”,...
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap – Let the Farewell Tour Begin
Given that The Comeback has always been a show with an eerie soothsaying quality about it, it’s really no surprise that Season 3 – which...
‘Rooster’ Episode 2 Recap – Wonderfully Consistent Comedy, Questionable Drama
Steve Carell made a handy focal point for Rooster, and his reluctant bumbling is what helped to situate us at Ludlow and get a sense...
‘DTF St. Louis’ Episode 3 Recap – This Show Is Better and Weirder Than We Thought
DTF. St Louis has been pretty good since it started. Odd, sure, and unconventional enough for its ultimate destination to feel sometimes worryingly elusive. In...
‘Rooster’ Episode 1 Recap – Yes, Of Course It’s Really Good
Rooster was always going to be good. A dramedy from the creators of Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Scrubs, starring Steve Carell as a bumbling author intervening in the spiralling love life of his daughter and her cheating husband against the backdrop of a liberal arts college campus? Sometimes these things just write themselves.
‘DTF St. Louis’ Episode 2 Recap – I Have No Idea Who to Suspect And It’s Great
DTF St. Louis is that rarest of things, a mystery that is genuinely mysterious. I have no idea who killed Floyd, or why, or what his prior career as a nude male model or his curved penis might have to do with any of it. And that's just the way I like it.
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 9 Recap – Don’t Play With Fireworks
When it was revealed that Season 2 of The Pitt was going to be set on the Fourth of July, everyone envisioned a lot of firework-related nastiness. In Episode 9, over halfway through the season, we finally get some of that. But it’s the least of anyone’s problems in PTMC.
‘DTF St. Louis’ Episode 1 Recap – Dating Apps Will Get You Killed
At first blush, DTF St. Louis is a show you've seen before. The HBO murder-mystery is about three people circling the drain of a sexless middle age, and one of them turns up dead, casting the other two in suspicion. It isn't the most unique of elevator pitches.
‘Industry’ Season 4 Ending Explained – Everyone Is Even Worse Than You Thought
Industry Season 4 was never going to have a happy ending, since happiness doesn’t exist in or indeed anywhere near this show. How can it? It’s...
‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 7 Recap – The House Of Cards Is Crashing Down
Industry Season 4 is now proceeding with such full-throttle end-of-run HBO primetime confidence that every hour is a new delight, often in a different way...
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Ending Explained – Double Or Nothing
George R. R. Martin himself has said that the death of Baelor Targaryen is one of the most significant moments in Westerosi history, one of...
‘Industry’ Season 4, Episode 6 Recap – Oh, That Was Pretty Masterful
Not to be hyperbolic about things, but "Dear Henry" is a properly masterful hour of television. When I talked about how Industry Season 4 gets better as it goes along, this is the kind of thing I was talking about.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Episode 5 Recap – Dunk’s Rocky Moment
Delayed gratification is the art of making someone wait for something they definitely want, and it’s an idea very neatly displayed in Episode 5 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Episode 4 Recap – A Gloomy Recruitment Drive
In its limited screentime thus far, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has done a pretty remarkable job of communicating a much more hopeful tone than you’d necessarily expect from a show set in the same brutal universe as Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.