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I think Season 2 is making me hate Platonic a little bit. It's a weird thing to say because it remains a well-made show with a handful of very funny lines, and Rose Byrne is especially great in Episode 4, "Fore!", but I'm so, so sick of Will.

You can tell that the ending of Smoke is going to be one of those that defines how people feel about the show overall. It might retroactively...

In another relatively subdued chapter, Chief of War continues to skillfully set the stage for enormous conflicts to come.

I get that Platonic is largely a show about college friends slowly realizing they’re not in college anymore, but by Season 2, you’d think it would have...

There are very few shows that start as badly as Smoke did, only to end up being quite this good.

After the second episode built to a surprising climax that separated the core cast, Chief of War has to establish a new status quo in Episode 3, "City of Flowers".

Episode 2 of Platonic Season 2 interestingly takes an almost opposite approach to its predecessor, which focused primarily on how Will's self-sabotage was threatening to upend his cozy life with Jenna through the medium of his relationship with Sylvia.

At first glance, a lot of things have changed in Platonic Season 2. Sylvia is now a semi-self-employed event planner, she and Charlie are still living in their dream home, and their marriage is more even-keeled than ever.

There are many words one might use to describe the ending of The Buccaneers Season 2, but the best one is “messy”. I know that’s part of...

Meet Ka'ahumanu. She's a character who is going to be pretty integral to Chief of War, but she's introduced in Episode 2 without a great deal of fanfare in a cold open that left me a bit confused.

I'm not given to hyperbole as a rule, so know this -- there's a long-ish sequence in Episode 7 of Smoke that I earnestly believe is one of the year's very best.

Chief of War is a very serious and passionately rendered show about real history and indigenous representation and storytelling.

You could -- and perhaps should -- quibble about where "All Rise" fits into The Buccaneers Season 2 more broadly, especially since it means the fallout from Dick's death last week ends up feeling a little shortchanged.

Seriously, how is this happening? Smoke is a truly confounding show. It started out okay, trundled along inoffensively enough, and then took a sudden, severe turn for the worse.

When Santi’s dad turned up in the penultimate episode, I think everyone knew that Stick was venturing into predictable territory just in time for its ending. And...

Blimey, James Seadown is awful, isn't he? This won't be news to long-time viewers of The Buccaneers, but now we're over halfway through Season 2, he has indisputably emerged as the real villain of the piece.

I’m not going to lie to you, I had written Smoke off. The previous episode was so deeply awful and misguided that it seemed incomprehensible the show...

I'm not one for tortured golf metaphors, but Stick really finds its swing in Episode 9.