TV Explainers

David Thacker was on the production team of Apple TV+’s irreverent historical comedy series The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, and Episode 4 ends on...

Nobody could have predicted the ending of Chicken Nugget. Unless they read the webtoon, I suppose, but I haven’t, so it was new to me....

The ending of Bandidos has everything you’d expect from the genre – a sinister villain, a traitor, fabled treasures, and a last-minute death that might...

Five prior episodes — and two prior seasons — have both led to this ending, with the ladies of Girls5eva set to hit the stage...

Boat Story is a very strange show, and it’s hard to imagine it being based on a true story. And yet there is a grain of...

If I can say one thing about the ending of Boat Story, it’s that I bet nobody sees it coming. Season 1 of the BBC...

The ending of The Signal swaps plot for theme, making the supposedly imminent arrival of extraterrestrials a reminder of humanity’s needless division. It’s a nice...

Florence “Miss Siss” Dedekker was a member of staff at The Academy at Ivy Ridge who was accused of both fostering and participating in a...

George Tulip was a staff member at The Academy at Ivy Ridge, the controversial private boarding school explored in the shocking Netflix docuseries The Program:...

By Guy Ritchie’s standards, the ending of The Gentlemen is quite neat and tidy. Sure, there’s a bit of finesse to it, but it mostly...

The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping takes a deep dive into the terrible case of the Academy at Ivy Ridge, a facility for wayward teens...

The disturbing Netflix docuseries The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping reveals a harrowing and unsettling story of alleged abuse suffered by students at The Academy at...

The ending of Supersex makes the same mistake that the entirety of Season 1 has, which is focusing on Tommaso and his relationship with Rocco,...

Supersex, a seven-episode look at the porn industry through the lens of real-life adult star Rocco Siffredi, is an attention-grabbing Netflix series marketed around its...

Imogene revealed who Viktor Sams was in Episode 9, and now, in the season finale of Death and Other Details, Imogene unpacks the why of it...

The ending of Captivating the King is surprisingly happy, which isn’t something I’ve been anticipating throughout Season 1 as Lee In has been thrust into...

Me Hereafter covers four terrible true crime stories, presented with a new twist. One of the cases featured in the series is of the dreadful...

Me Hereafter has an episode dedicated to Kira Steger, who failed to turn up for work during a historic blizzard and was later found dead...