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As they have throughout the first seven episodes of Netflix’s Spanish medical drama Breathless, the personal and professional lives of Joaquin Sorolla Hospital’s residents intertwine...

The reason the Red Wedding became such a cultural phenomenon is that nobody really saw it coming. Sure, anyone who had read the books –...

The unique selling point of Chastity High, the plot wrinkle it takes its title from, is the idea that none of the students at the...

Look, Kaos is a big-budget Netflix series with a very good cast, so the chances of the ending actually being an ending and not an...

Time travel stories are designed to go on forever, which might explain why the Terminator franchise is still around since it hasn’t been good since 1993. This...

I confess to being reassured that several people in the Ready Steady Cut Reddit community found the premise of Netflix’s The Accident to be as silly and unintentionally hilarious...

The ending of The Frog has just the right amount of ambiguity and payoff. Some things are left unresolved, sure, but some important matters are...

What is the price of freedom? It’s a hefty toll for most, and a fortune for some. The ending of Lady in the Lake finds both Maddie...

As I stated in my review of Baby Fever Season 2, Nana is not a redeemable character by any stretch of the imagination, and the...

Unintentionally hilarious premise aside, The Accident Season 1 is actually quite a grim show, and its ending only reiterates that fact. Some justice is done,...

Season 4 of Emily in Paris at the halfway mark is everything we expected. Episode 5, “Trompe l’oeil,” sees trouble for Camille, an untimely revelation...

The Tyrant is aggressively complex for a show with a relatively simple story, and the ending of its brief four-episode first season contains almost all...

The ending of Shahmaran Season 2 embodies an endless cycle of human greed and ignorance, which is always a fitting theme. After Season 1’s climax...

Despite its unusually cinematic presentation – courtesy of Ridley Scott and his production company – ABC News’s At Witt’s End – The Hunt For a...

The ending of The Umbrella Academy Season 4 made sense. There has been apocalypse after apocalypse. Eventually, it would be best to stop them once...

One of the main talking points around the first season of House of the Dragon was that it was just setting up for all the...

A happy ending was always an inevitability for Miss Night and Day, but it was still important for the show to stick the landing. Episode...

And… breathe. Blimey, that was something, wasn’t it? It seemed unlikely that Episode 10 – the aptly titled “Comeuppance” – would be able to tie...