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‘The Winning Try’ Episode 2 Could Be Mistaken For A Season Finale
It's only Episode 2, and yet The Winning Try is already delivering finale-quality drama, with all the big emotional swings and payoffs you'd expect after a full season of development.
‘The Winning Try’ Gets Off To A Winning Start In Episode 1
The Winning Try is one of those from-the-ashes sports dramas that ensnares you immediately.
The Ending Of ‘Trigger’ Is A Little Underwhelming
When you really boil it down, the ending of Trigger, like the show itself, is a conflict over two competing ideologies. This theme is made...
Breaking Down Every Episode Of Netflix’s ‘Trigger’
Trigger has a fascinating and provocative dystopian premise, which imagines Korea awash with free, easily accessible firearms. The only man fighting against the tide is Lee...
‘Trigger’ Presents A Dystopian Korea With Worrying Enthusiasm
The central idea of Trigger is that a lot of people are just waiting for the opportunity to shoot someone. Based on the shooting rates...
‘A Normal Woman’ Has A Predictable Ending With A Touch Of Ambiguity
In many ways, A Normal Woman has exactly the ending you’d expect it to have, albeit spiced up with a touch of ambiguity. And this,...
‘A Normal Woman’ Is Overly Familiar, But An Effective Psychological Thriller
If it’s a random Thursday — or, indeed, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or any other day of the week — it’s probably time for a new...
‘Letters from the Past’ Has A Meaningful But Predictable Ending
Letters from the Past has a pretty predictable ending, but it is, in my view, the right one. This kind of coda, which essentially comes...
‘Letters from the Past’ Is Heartfelt But Lacks A Special Quality
You’ll have to forgive me, because I can’t quite articulate what makes Letters from the Past a bit less effective than it would like to...
‘Critical: Between Life and Death’ – Netflix’s Medical Docuseries Provides a Raw Glimpse into Major Trauma Units
Critical: Between Life and Death is a fly-on-the-wall documentary series that follows the UK’s major trauma units, from intensive rehabilitation to life-or-death surgery. It’s a...
Netflix’s ‘Hitmakers’ Reflects the Manufactured Age of the Music Industry
There was a time, and there still are purists today, when musicians were judged for not writing their songs, especially in rap and hip-hop, with...
Breaking Down Every Steamy Twist In ‘The Hunting Wives’
Murder! Affairs! Megachurches! The Hunting Wives has an awful lot going on, and a lot of it is deliberately ridiculous and sensational. Across eight episodes, it weaves...
The Ending Of ‘The Hunting Wives’ Is Crazy, But Annoyingly Inconclusive
Where to even begin? It was obvious from the start that The Hunting Wives was going to take some crazy turns, but following a penultimate...
‘The Hunting Wives’ Is An Unashamedly Trashy And Ridiculous Binge
The Hunting Wives, created by Rebecca Cutter and based on the book by May Cobb, wears its original destiny as a Starz show like a...
‘Trainwreck: P.I. Moms’ Tells A Story So Wild It Could Only Be True
Trainwreck: P.I. Moms tells the kind of wacky true story that, if it were the plot of a movie or TV show, you’d write it off...
Breaking Down the Secretive, Maddening Ending of Netflix’s ‘Delirium’
Netflix’s eight-episode Colombian drama Delirium is an ambitiously knotty exploration of generational trauma, secrets, and madness, and its ending is a twisty old thing that...
‘Delirium’ Tackles Heavy Subjects In Interesting Ways, But Something’s Missing
It’s easy to be cynical about any show marketed on its sexuality. Not that there’s anything wrong with a bit of sauce, obviously; we’re not...
The Ending Of ‘Wall to Wall’ Is Mostly Just A Mess
Years ago, when I lived alone, my neighbours were bonkers nocturnal drug addicts who never stopped banging on the walls for reasons I could never...