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There’s a lot going on in Episodes 9 & 10 of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, which is to be expected. “Hero or Menace” and “If...

Ending a show is no easy feat, and ending a beloved, long-running show is harder still. It brings me enormous pleasure to report, then, that Cobra...

The fact that High Potential has already been renewed for Season 2 informs the ending of Episode 13, “Let’s Play”, which is quite comfortable leaving...

It feels a little ironic. The central meaning of the ending of Sweet Magnolias Season 4 is “New Beginnings.” With every character experiencing a new...

If you thought the first season of The Recruit built to a chaotic conclusion, you haven’t seen anything yet. The Season 2 finale is absolutely...

The ending of Shafted resonates because it doesn’t take the easy way out. It isn’t especially happy, either, though Episode 6, “Heartbreak”, at least ends...

Given how much I didn’t like The Agency when it started, it’s kind of remarkable how good the first season’s ending is. Episode 10, “Overtaken...

Given the immense popularity of The Night Agent, it was virtually inevitable that its ending wouldn’t really be an ending. Just like how the first...

I’m not going to tell you that Season 2 of Silo has been perfect, but I’m happy to say unequivocally, without any hyperbole whatsoever, that...

XO, Kitty Season 2 was a whirlwind of emotions and drama! Funnily enough, Kitty explicitly tells us at the start of the season that she...

Season 2 of Castlevania: Nocturne provides a surprisingly tender ending that in many ways avoids a lot of the more potentially pesky narrative decisions. Everyone...

“The Real Good Guys” is as perfect an ending as Skeleton Crew could have hoped for. It’s action-packed, beautiful looking, thematically resonant, and feels at...

Nobody was expecting a happy ending to Landman, and Episode 10, “The Crumbs of Hope”, is the furthest thing from one. But I was pretty...

Subteran avoids the easy, happy ending, which holistically is one of the bolder things about it. Netflix’s first Romanian original series is mostly content to...

James Gunn isn’t pulling any punches in the finale of Creature Commandos. Episode 7, “A Very Funny Monster”, has everything you’d expect from the first...

Pretty much everyone dies in American Primeval, which is to be expected. Nobody thought a happy ending was coming to any of these characters, even...

It takes a fair amount of time and a lot of concentration to get to the climax of Hound’s Hill, so most viewers will enter...

The Breakthrough has an ending that’s a little like releasing a long-held intake of breath. It isn’t the usual kind of crime drama tension, I’ll...