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The premiere of Sweetpea, “Sorry for Your Loss”, has a pretty simple mandate – justify why Rhiannon Lewis would stab a man to death for...

The Penguin is excellent in a way that doesn’t make much sense, and Episode 3, “Bliss”, exemplifies this in several interesting ways. It’s a Batman...

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...

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

Disclaimer has a point to prove in Episode 2, and in so doing it makes me look a little foolish for assuming in the premiere...

You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but I do think I’ve sussed Alfonso Cuaron’s Disclaimer out. As of Episode 1, it’s a handsomely...

When you go on the run, you only take the essentials, and that’s the feeling that hangs over The Old Man as we enter the...

I have been relatively positive about Agatha All Along since the beginning, but Episode 5, “Darkest Hour / Wake Thy Power”, feels like the moment...

Since the premiere of Grotesquerie, I’ve complained pretty reliably about the inclusion of the inclusion of the Nurse Redd storyline, which has always felt like...

From bad to worse; out of the frying pan into the fire. Pick whichever idiom you like, but that’s the vibe of Grotesquerie Episode 5....

The Pogues are panicked at the start of Outer Banks Season 4, Episode 5. After the altercation between Terrance, Cleo, and Lightner, they are left...

Season 4 shows that Outer Banks is maturing. The characters are the same. The vibe is the same. Heck, it even follows similar plot beats....

I can say with a relative degree of certainty that Tell Me Lies is the most stressful show in existence, for all kinds of reasons, many of...

Slow Horses Season 4 doesn’t have a happy ending. It’s actually rather bleak. No justice is done. Painful sacrifices are made. There really seems to be...

Bravo to Bad Monkey, because it’s the rare streaming show with a proper ending. Episode 10, “We’re in the Memory-Making Business”, brings all of the key...

I’ve pointed out the potential of Brilliant Minds already, but I feel especially validated by Season 1, Episode 3, “The Lost Biker”. This, I think,...

Just like the field trip earlier in the season, the aptly-titled “Convention” gets the teachers out of the classroom. But even though Evan thinks that...

Only Murders in the Building is never short of craziness and chaos. Season 4, Episode 7, aptly titled “Valley of the Dolls,” may have gotten...