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‘Football Parents’ Ending Explained – Team Spirit Wins the Day… Almost
Having thought about it a bit, I’m still not sure whether Football Parents has a happy ending or not. I suppose it depends on who...
‘Football Parents’ Review – A Celebration Of Difference That Sometimes Makes Its Point Too Forcefully
I am, for my sins, a football parent, so there’s a lot I find familiar about the Dutch Netflix comedy Football Parents. The general inability...
‘Bet’ Ending Explained – Yumeko and Kira Go All In Against Each Other
Blackjack! Murder! Revenge! All the elements you’d expect from Bet’s ending are present and correct in Episode 10, “Winner Takes All”, as well as the...
‘Bet’ Review – It Doesn’t All Work, But Some Big Swings Make For An Engaging Adaptation
Netflix’s Bet (2025) is a live-action adaptation of an anime, itself transplanted from a manga, and at this point, I should probably mention that I...
Breaking Down Every Episode Of ‘Love, Death + Robots’ Season 4
Netflix’s often stellar sci-fi/fantasy anthology series Love, Death + Robots returns for Season 4 with another clutch of episodes, each highlighting a different style of...
‘Love, Death + Robots’ Season 4 Review – The First Collection With More Misses Than Hits
Anthologies are always a mixed bag by definition, but Tim Miller and David Fincher’s Love, Death + Robots has remained remarkably consistent throughout its first three seasons...
‘American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden’ Review – Riveting And Crucial, If A Little Jingoistic
Netflix’s American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing was a sobering exploration of the impact of domestic terrorism and America’s post-9/11 psyche, and I thought about...
‘Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story’ Review – A Truly Heinous Story, Superficially Recounted
It says a lot about how truly depraved two people can be that they remain at the forefront of the public consciousness decades after the...
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episode 2 Recap – The Story Widens A Little As It Begins To Push Forward
Tastefully Yours has a comfort that comes from familiarity. In Episode 2, it’s largely going through the motions, opening the story up a little and shunting it forward, but not threatening to veer off in any unexpected directions.
‘Bad Thoughts’ Review – Tom Segura’s Demented Netflix Sketch Show Has More Hits Than Misses
You can always rely on a comedian, especially a relatively edgy one, to push some boundaries. Tom Segura, who’s no stranger to Netflix, does that...
Micro-Reviewing Every Sketch In Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’
Tom Segura has teamed up with Netflix to deliver a deranged anthology of sketch comedy that feels like The Twilight Zone had a love child...
‘Untold: The Liver King’ Review – A Hilarious Charade, Both Intentionally and Unintentionally
Brian Johnson, aka The Liver King, is a fascinating subject for Netflix’s Untold because he’s at once both a ridiculous charlatan and an indescribably compelling...
‘Tastefully Yours’ Episode 1 Recap – Comfort Food In Television Form
Sometimes what people want from their entertainment is comfort and familiarity, and that definitely seems to be the kind of audience Tastefully Yours is courting, at least as far as Episode 1 is concerned.
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Episodes 7 & 8 Recap – And Things Are Starting To Sag
Maybe it’s just me, but Heavenly Ever After is starting to feel like a lot. It could be the episode runtimes, granted, which stretch to almost feature-length twice a week.
‘Nonnas’ Review – Netflix’s Frictionless Foodie Drama Is Just Charming Enough
Sometimes a movie exists for no better reason than to simply mind its business, and that’s very much the vibe I get from Nonnas. It’s...
‘Bad Influence’ Ending Explained – Netflix’s Teen Romance Goes Completely Off the Rails
I know what you’re thinking – a teen romance about two radically different but implausibly attractive people has to have a happy ending, right? The...
‘Bad Influence’ Review – Netflix’s Spanish Teen Erotica Hits The Usual Notes
There’s a very simple and obvious formula for a movie like Bad Influence, which shouldn’t be confused with Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, a...
‘Untold: Shooting Guards’ Review – This Is The Pettiest High-Profile Sports Story Of All Time
It wouldn’t quite be accurate to call Untold: Shooting Guards a tale of two halves, but it’s pretty close. At a certain point in the...