TV Explainers

In a feature for Variety, Richard Gadd said that, “I don’t think happy endings, or even conclusive endings, are really true to life.” He wasn’t...

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is much improved in Season 2, at least in part because its mystery is significantly darker and more complex....

It isn’t easy being a teenage girl at the best of times — or so I’m reliably told — but in Gilead it’s virtually impossible....

There are many advantages to a show being renewed way ahead of its Season 1 run ending, and you can see most of them on...

This is a weird statement, I’ll grant you that, but here it is anyway: The Audacity doesn’t feel like the kind of show that would...

Throughout its entire Season 1 run, Sheriff Country has set a pretty high bar for a network procedural, and I’m pleased to report that its...

Given Boston Blue’s penchant for sappy emotionality, pretty much everyone was expecting a happy ending to Season 1. But given CBS’s need to justify a...

With a bit of relief, I’m happy to tell you that the ending of The Boroughs sticks the landing. Sure, it can’t quite resist teasing...

In case it wasn’t already obvious that Margo’s Got Money Troubles was one of the better shows of the year, the ending confirms it. “Lock and...

Yellowstone was a bit of a phenomenon, and once it became obvious that people really liked it, creator Taylor Sheridan and his partners at CBS...

In the storied canon of brothers who don’t get along especially well, Dante and Vergil have got to be up there. If you’re a fan...

CBS’s Yellowstone spin-off Marshals was always intended to further flesh out Taylor Sheridan’s Duttonverse – if that’s what we’re calling it – through the specific...

After six seasons immersed in the darkness of The Handmaid’s Tale, is the spin-off The Testaments feeling too light? Episode 7 proves that the answer...

The Hunting Party Season 2 comes to a close in Episode 13 by shifting the status quo pretty radically, honestly, in a way that I’m...

Well, we have plenty to discuss here, don’t we? As well as finally bringing the long-simmering conflict between Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk to something...

The finale of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 has just about everything you’d expect from a show in the MonsterVerse. There are giant kaiju punch-ups, kind...

The ending of Imperfect Women isn’t about surprises. It became obvious several episodes ago who killed Nancy, and despite recent efforts to throw a new suspect into...

Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 exists in “frozen time”, continuity-wise, so it’s no wonder that the ending sets up a second season. As we’ve already...