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It took a while, but Season 3 of Tulsa King is really starting to knit together, a bit like an open wound or a broken bone.

Mayor of Kingstown has always had a simmering sense of danger to it. How can it not? It’s about a prison town perpetually at war with itself, and a man trying to “keep the peace” by shooting or headbutting anyone who annoys him.

It’s only Episode 3, and things really aren’t looking good for Mickey or Skye in Sheriff Country.

I respect Boston Blue for not turning Episode 3 into some kind of wacky Halloween special, but after moaning last week that it seems too willing to contrive happy endings for everyone, it’s kind of a double-edged sword.

With Watson Season 2 having moved on from Sherlock Holmes as quickly as he was introduced, Episode 3, “Expletive Deleted”, has the advantage of being able to push forward with the case of the week as a pure medical mystery.

I guess enough time has passed for an episode about a pandemic, even a tiny one that only flirts with the idea of becoming a wide-scale health event.

DMV can get away with a lot because it's genuinely funny more often than it isn't.

Now we’re talking. I did say that Tulsa King felt as if it was finding some first-season form, and that’s very much the takeaway from...

You know Mayor of Kingstown is good, since its Season 4 premiere is riveting despite being, for most of its runtime, about one character bursting into the office of another character and having a passive-aggressive argument.

It’s hard not to compare Sheriff Country to Boston Blue. They’re pretty different shows on the face of it, sure, but are they really?

My biggest question about Boston Blue is when things are going to start going wrong.

DMV turns up the heat in Episode 2, both literally and otherwise. "Stay in Your Lane" is a significantly more chaotic episode than the premiere was.

Is it just me, or is Dwight’s double-agent routine in Tulsa King Season 3 feeling a little distracting?

Halfway between the continuation of Blue Bloods and the introduction of a completely new show, the premiere of Boston Blue has that classic “same but different” quality you probably expect from a spin-off to a beloved procedural.

The hook of Sheriff Country is that it’s about a sheriff for whom the law is the least of her problems.

The worst thing that ever happened to Watson was Brilliant Minds. Both shows are similar enough that the comparisons are unavoidable; medical procedurals with a focus on very strange, often brain-related cases of the week.

Jeremiah Dunmire’s goons stealing the Montague 50 seemed like a much bigger deal than it ends up being in Tulsa King Season 3, Episode 4.

Vicious doesn’t have the kind of ending you can explain. Everyone who watches it will likely take something different from it and have a different...