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In yet another kick-yourself plot development, Widow’s Bay has just revealed Richard Warren’s last living descendant, and annoyingly, the writing was kind of on the wall all...

I’m not a soothsayer, but I could have told you weeks ago that Criminal Record wasn’t going to have a happy ending. The signs were there....

While Alice and Steve doesn’t seem like the kind of show that would necessarily need a second season, the ending of Season 1 makes a...

Widow’s Bay will undoubtedly end up being one of the best shows of 2026, and a large part of its appeal is that nobody can...

Viewers watching Season 1, Episode 3 of Star City could be forgiven for expecting to see the Soviet space program outfitted with high-tech gear. Instead,...

When bad things happen in Your Friends & Neighbors, they tend to happen all at once, often without much warning. But the ending of Season 2...

You have to hand it to Sam Levinson, Euphoria’s Season 3 finale was not what I expected it to be, in several ways. In hindsight,...

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...