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‘Physical: 100’ Season 1 Review – A Real-Life Squid Game
Physical: 100 is the first Korean reality survival series on Netflix, so reality fans, get ready as this series pits participants against one another in...
‘Crash Course in Romance’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – What Gets Hae-e Blacklisted?
There’s plenty to talk about coming out of Crash Course in Romance episode four. For one, Chi-yeol (Jung Kyung-ho) is going to offer Hae-e the chance at...
‘Crash Course in Romance’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – Plenty of Plot Progression But Still Many Questions
Although plodding at times, this episode of Crash Course in Romance gave viewers plenty in the form of plot progression. There are still plenty of questions, such...
‘Shahmaran’ Season 1 Ending Explained – What Does Sahsu and Maran Being Together Mean?
The Turkish Netflix drama Shahmaran has a lot going on, splicing together multiple genres with complicated mythology across eight long episodes, the last of which,...
‘Shahmaran’ Season 1 Review – A Genre-Splicing Tale of Turkish Mythology
I must confess to having laughed at the premise of Shahmaran. You can blame Netflix. The streamer presented a summary to me with such complete...
‘Jung_E’ Ending Explained (In Detail) – Is The Simulation Completed?
The science fiction film Jung_E takes place in 2194. The title refers to a project cloning a fierce warrior (Kim Hyun-joo), the former leader of...
‘Jung_E’ Review – An Adrenaline Fuelled Dystopian Tale of Mothers and Daughters
Netflix’s Jung_E owes much of its story to a movie like Blade Runner by tapping into the classic’s mixture of themes like morality, identity, and...
‘Mission Majnu’ Review – An Empty True Story That Could Have Been More Emotional
Mission Majnu is based on a true story about an Indian agent who marries a Pakistani woman. He tries his best to stay out of the...
‘Truth Be Told’ Season 3 Review – Run-of-the-Mill True Crime with a Powerful Message
The true crime genre has become an unstoppable behemoth in recent years, leading to many TV shows, films, and podcasts. The podcast world, in particular,...
‘Alkhallat+’ Ending Explained – Is There a Lesson Learned at the End?
An anthology is only as good as its strongest story, and unfortunately, Fahad Alammari didn’t order his stories properly in Alkhallat+ to keep audiences engaged. The...
‘Alkhallat+’ Review – A Fun Concept That Fizzles In the Second Half
Alkhallat+ is an anthology piece that is difficult to execute in a two-hour film. Some pieces will be more engaging than others, and it comes down...
‘The Interest of Love’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – It’s Complicated Now
Ahn Su-yeong (Moon Ga-young) and Ha Sang-su (Yoo Yeon-seok) are officially playing with fire. They’ve held that burning desire for each other for too long, and...
‘Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre’ Season 2 Possibilities Explained
The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. This breezy collection is an ideal...
A Breakdown of Every Episode of ‘Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre’ Season 1
The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. Ito is a...
‘That ’90s Show’ Season 1 Review – Successfully Revamping a Beloved Series
Nostalgia is a surefire way to bring flocks of fans back. When That’90s Show released the cast list, hype ensued, with the memories of That...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 12 Recap – “Whispering Woman” / “Soichi’s Beloved Pet”
“Whispering Woman” is adapted from the eighth chapter of Ma No Kakera, and treads unusual territory by being rooted in friendship and a positive bond,...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 11 Recap – “Alley” / “Headless Statue”
“Alley”, essentially a murder mystery with a supernatural slant, is adapted from Back Alley, the fifth chapter of The Bully from Horror World of Junji Ito. For Ito...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – “Unendurable Labyrinth” / “The Bully”
This double-bill episode collects, I think, the weirdest pair of stories in Junji Ito Maniac, not in terms of their actual content but in how...