Platform
‘Humint’ Is A Shallow Korean Spy Thriller Elevated By Exciting Action
Most action movies treat their plot as a conveyor belt for fight scenes and their characters like crash test dummies, so on that level, at...
‘Imperfect Women’ Episode 4 Recap – A Welcome Change Of Perspective
Imperfect Women has very much been about Nancy since the beginning, which has made it a little awkward that she was killed off in the...
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – Now We’re Talking
If “Shoot the Moon” was a deliberately slower-paced episode of Daredevil: Born Again, Episode 3, “The Scales & the Sword”, is the payoff for sitting...
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – Spread A Little Thin
I was initially curious why Disney+ elected to air two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 at the same time instead of letting the...
‘Shrinking’ Season 3, Episode 10 Recap – Jimmy Is Making Things Morbid
I think it’s worth pointing out that Shrinking has already been renewed for a fourth season. I expected this to go without saying, but Season 3 seems...
‘Untold: The Death & Life Of Lamar Odom’ Review – A Fascinating Study Of Addiction
At first blush, The Death & Life of Lamar Odom doesn’t seem like the typical Untold documentary. Sure, the life of former NBA star Lamar...
‘Memory of a Killer’ Episode 9 Recap – The Ferryman Foiled (For Now)
One thing I’m thankful for – and it says a lot about Memory of a Killer’s underlying respect for the audience, I think – is...
‘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 –...
‘Watson’ Season 2, Episode 15 Recap – Sherlock Is Back (Or Is He?)
It’s difficult to overstate the extent to which my eyes glaze over whenever Sherlock Holmes shows up in Watson. I understand he’s kind of the...
‘Marshals’ Episode 5 Recap – This Time It’s Personal
If last week’s episode of Marshals was a bit of a team-building exercise, then Episode 5 is very much designed to put those strengthened bonds...
‘Paradise’ Season 2 Ending Explained – We’re Still None the Wiser, But That’s Fine
I suppose it’s only right that the Season 2 finale of Paradise is full of biblical allusions, not least of which being that Episode 8...
‘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...
‘American Classic’ Episode 6 Recap – And Suddenly I’m Invested
I wouldn’t say that Episode 6 of American Classic is leaps and bounds better than all the previous ones. It has the same blend of arch comedy...
‘Girl from Nowhere: The Reset’ Episode 4 Recap – Another Influencer Already?
As much as I can get behind the idea of new Nanno’s entire character arc seemingly being that she’s just mad at influencers, it does...
How the Ending of ‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Sets Up A Sequel
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a consistently surprising movie that arguably over-delivers on all of its promises. One of the most exciting...
‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is the Best Streaming Movie of the Year (For Now)
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is the rare movie that is better in practice than it is on paper. Between the fussy title...
‘Bodycam’ Has A Novel Premise But Goes Wildly Off the Rails
Immediacy is in vogue at the moment, and there’s nothing more immediate than a first-person perspective, something that video games have understood forever but that...