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The Winning Try never ceases to amaze me. After the premiere suggested we had a great show on our hands, and the second episode proved that quality...

For all its considerable flaws, the MCU is a bounty of creative riches. Something like Wakanda, a secretive Afrofuturist wonderland of preserved culture and advanced...

It takes an effort to remember this now, but everyone used to keep track of what phase the Marvel Cinematic Universe was in. It used...

Like father, like son, or so the saying goes, but the point of Dexter: Resurrection is increasingly becoming to disprove that idea.

Meet Ka'ahumanu. She's a character who is going to be pretty integral to Chief of War, but she's introduced in Episode 2 without a great deal of fanfare in a cold open that left me a bit confused.

I'm not given to hyperbole as a rule, so know this -- there's a long-ish sequence in Episode 7 of Smoke that I earnestly believe is one of the year's very best.

Chief of War is a very serious and passionately rendered show about real history and indigenous representation and storytelling.

Start your engines, ladies and gentlemen. Twisted Metal is back for Season 2, and it’s bigger and better than ever. This might not be immediately apparent in...

Two years after Season 1 turned out to be surprisingly good, and thirty years after the debut of the long-abandoned PlayStation series on which it’s...

You could -- and perhaps should -- quibble about where "All Rise" fits into The Buccaneers Season 2 more broadly, especially since it means the fallout from Dick's death last week ends up feeling a little shortchanged.

There’s a concept in professional wrestling – or “sports entertainment”, whatever you prefer – known as “kayfabe”. In simple terms, it’s the idea of keeping...

The problem with David Berkowitz, aka the “.44 Caliber Killer” and, eventually, “The Son of Sam”, is that in a true crime streaming context, he...

Bucking the trend of video game adaptations being woeful, Peacock’s Twisted Metal was a good time. This is especially surprising considering it was based on...

When the first of Netflix’s batch of Trainwreck documentaries debuted on June 10, 2025, it began an eight-week trend of the short films infiltrating the most-watched movies...

Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 is essentially the final boss of Netflix’s uber-successful voyeuristic documentary series. It builds on several of the themes touched on by previous...

I’m resigned to the idea of The Institute being a slow burn. It’s a mystery box on two fronts, drip-feeding minor clues and reveals without being in any hurry to get where it’s going.

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 is one of those from-the-ashes sports dramas that ensnares you immediately.