TV Explainers

I think it’s fair to say that Spartacus: House of Ashur has earned a finale like Episode 10, “Hail Caesar”. Things haven’t been going especially well for...

People haven’t been especially keen on Season 2 of Fallout, for some reasons that make a degree of sense and some that don’t, but it’s...

Isn’t it funny how, when Season 2 began, nobody really expected or wanted a sequel to The Night Manager, and now that it’s ending, the...

As if it wasn’t obvious that Wonder Man isn’t your typical MCU show, the ending should make it pretty clear. No mid-credits tease? No proper...

You can say a lot of things about Landman. In my coverage of Season 2, I’ve probably said most of them already. It’s weird. It’s sometimes...

At just three episodes, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials doesn’t have the most complicated mystery in the world. Truth be told, you can probably figure out...

Palm Royale is good, there’s no doubt about that. Season 2 has had its misteps, but for the most part, it has been a consistently entertaining...

As far as clear-cut climaxes go, you could probably see this one coming a mile away. Pro Bono is the sort of show that lends...

It’s difficult to pull off a happy ending in a show as bruising as A Thousand Blows, especially since Season 2 is notably darker than...

Let’s be clear here: Girl Taken is a very bleak show. Refreshingly, most of its darkest details occur off-screen and are implied instead of shown,...

A lot of shows have twists and turns. Some are completely contrived and difficult to predict because they don’t make any sense. But some shows...

The good news is that Red Eye Season 2, despite being a step down from the first outing overall, has a better, slightly less ridiculous...

For such an unrelentingly bleak show, the ending of Land of Sin is probably a bit happier than anyone was really expecting. While it’s impressively...

Netflix’s unconventional Argentine crime caper Time Flies has a better ending than most Netflix shows. This doesn’t make a lacking show much better, but it...

Ending a series isn’t an easy thing to do, and ending a series like Stranger Things is almost impossible. Originally conceived as a one-off, the...

Thanks to a relatively revelatory penultimate episode, Harlan Coben’s Run Away doesn’t have a great deal to do in its finale. Episode 8, “It Stays...

Let’s just get the obvious thing out of the way – Sean Bean survives! Yes, remarkably, a character played by Sean Bean makes it out...

Seemingly conceived as an answer to the question “How much torture can be included in an hour of television?”, the finale of Mayor of Kingstown Season 4...