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There’s something weird about The Last Thing He Told Me that is difficult to put a finger on. It has always been there, but it’s especially noticeable in Season 2. The best way of describing it would probably be a feeling of inertia, or glossy emptiness. It all just feels so rote, so artificial, that it’s really quite difficult to care about any of it.

In its first season, Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters made a surprisingly great case for itself as one of the better small-screen franchise tie-ins. And Season 2, despite a break lasting over two years, seems determined to live up to that reputation in Episode 1.

The Pitt always causes me some degree of anxiety, and Season 2 has taken great pleasure in doing that so far. But I must confess to being unusually susceptible to Episode 8, since "2:00 P.M." marks the start of an analogue stint that might last up to 24 hours.

The Hunting Party Season 2 is back after a little hiatus, and it’s back guest-starring Kelsey Grammer, which has to count for something. After all, who...

Evidently not finished with cameos from the broader franchise, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy provides another one in Episode 8, “The Life of the Stars”. But...

I’m always surprised when the latest episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy turns out to be an hour long. I’m not sure why, since they’re...

Whoah now, folks. I personally thought that The Beauty was finished with all of its body-horror transformations, and more to the point, I also figured it was...

Byron Forst is a bad guy in the most simplistic possible way, a greedy fatcat billionaire who is cruel to everyone and interested only in...

After arguably wasting an episode on backstory nobody needed, The Beauty had to bounce back in Episode 7. And it does. “Beautiful Living Rooms” initially...

Cross Season 2 made a bit of a misstep recently, making its villain look a bit doltish by falling in love with a dude she’d...

I love Shrinking more than just about anyone, but I think it’s fair to say that Season 3 was threatening to fall into a bit of a...

There’s a slight “too little too late” quality to the tail end of Hijack Season 2 — I think we can all agree that this probably didn’t...

I mentioned this briefly when I wrote about the premiere, but any issues of premise, character development, or originality aside, The Fall and Rise of...

DMV has been off the air for a long while, and Episode 10 feels less like a triumphant return than a reminder that this show...

It’s fair to say that Memory of a Killer hasn’t been in a rush to get anywhere, but that changes in Episode 5. “Betrayal” shouldn’t...

Some shows are designed to push boundaries, to reinvent longstanding ideas about genre and form. The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins isn’t one of them.

‘The first season of Paradise was one of 2025’s best shows, mostly without any warning. Its premiere revealed a gotcha premise that was kept well...

Rounding out the triumvirate of Paradise Season 2 premiere episodes, “Another Day in Paradise” is the most like what we’ve come to expect from the show after the first season.