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‘Brilliant Minds’ Ending Explained – Everyone Faces Their Fears In An Excellent Finale

January 7 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Brilliant Minds hasn’t always explicitly been about fear, but the theme has certainly lurked in the background. All of it comes to the fore in the...

‘Brilliant Minds’ Episode 12 Recap – A Tense Disaster Sneakily Obscures The Best Twist Yet

January 7 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Brilliant Minds kept its audience on tenterhooks for weeks after collapsing a building on one of its key cast members and heading off for a midseason hiatus.

Here’s What ‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ Got Right About Jim Swire’s Crusade

January 2 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth has such a made-for-TV sensibility that it can be difficult to believe much of what it depicts really happened. But...

‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ Review – Colin Firth Can’t Quite Save This Dense Drama From Itself

December 30 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I’m not sure Lockerbie: A Search for Truth quite constitutes a Christmas show, despite beginning on December 21, 1988. You might recognize that date. It...

Carol Becomes The Focus In ‘Brilliant Minds’ Episode 11

December 10 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Carol has been a reliable but underutilized presence in Brilliant Minds thus far, so it’s nice that Episode 11, “The Other Woman”, puts her firmly at the...

Pain Is A Lesson In ‘Brilliant Minds’ Episode 10

December 3 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Episode 10 of Brilliant Minds is about pain, in ways both obvious and not. “The First Responder” as a title is misleading. Sure, one of...

‘Brilliant Minds’ Offers A Change Of Perspective In Episode 9 — And A Too-Familiar Rhythm

November 26 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I’m not going to say Brilliant Minds is running out of ideas, because Episode 9, “The Colorblind Painter”, still has a few. But the idea of a...

Everyone’s Getting Laid In ‘Brilliant Minds’ Episode 8, Including the Elderly

November 19 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Once you get over the obvious hilarity of the premise – it’s about a sweet old lady who wants to have sex all the time,...

‘Brilliant Minds’ Delivers A Poignant Love Story In Episode 7

November 12 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The John Doe subplot comes to a poignant end in Brilliant Minds Episode 7, which all things considered is perhaps the best installment of the...

Wolf and the Gang Go Back to School In ‘Brilliant Minds’ Episode 6

October 29 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Brilliant Minds keeps surprising me. Episode 6, “The Girl Who Cried Pregnant”, doesn’t just offer up an interesting core case with some surprising and effective...

‘Teacup’ Gets A Little More Sci-Fi In Episodes 3 & 4

October 17 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I don’t know how anyone is getting a decent night’s sleep in Teacup. At the end of Episode 2, a woman was turned inside-out. At...

‘Teacup’ Episode 2 Raises The Stakes and Complicates the Mystery

October 11 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Freed from the clunky expositional approach of its premiere, Teacup feels like it’s coming together in Episode 2, “My Little Lighthouse”. The predicament feels more...

Exposition Bogs Down The Premiere Of ‘Teacup’

October 11 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

A name seems to carry more weight in the horror genre than anywhere else. You see Jordan Peele or James Wan or Ryan Murphy –...

5 Prison-Inspired Movies Like ‘Bosco’

February 7 2024, by Louie Fecou

Bosco, streaming on Peacock, covers the story of Quawntay “Bosco” Adams, who was sentenced heavily during the U.S.’s war against drugs campaign. He would, however,...

Quawntay “Bosco” Adams’ prison escape was like something out of a movie – before it became one

February 5 2024, by Louie Fecou

Bosco is based on the real-life events that surrounded Quawntay “Bosco” Adams, who was jailed for drug offences, but somehow managed to escape from the...

Bosco Ending Explained – Why does Bosco allow the police to re-capture him?

February 3 2024, by Lori Meek

Based on a true story, Bosco follows its titular character, Quawntay “Bosco” Adams, as he plans to escape maximum security prison to meet his newborn...

Bosco Review – A compelling tale about finding the meaning of freedom

February 3 2024, by Lori Meek

Peacock’s drama thriller Bosco tells the true story of Quawntay Adams and his remarkable escape from a maximum security prison. First-time director Nicholas Manuel Pino...

Quawntay “Bosco” Adams: Where Is He Now?

February 2 2024, by Louie Fecou

Peacock’s prison break movie Bosco tells the incredible true story of Quawntay “Bosco” Adams, jailed for thirty-five years for possession and intent to distribute marijuana,...