TV Explainers
Are you looking for an explanation of a particular plot point for a TV Show? Are you confused about a season’s ending? Do you need a breakdown of a character or person? This page will help you and keep you up to date on the latest TV Explainers.
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‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Ending Explained – A Satisfying Finale Provides Some Big Emotional Payoffs
The ending of Your Friends & Neighbors hinges on one key question — is Coop going to prison? From the very beginning of Episode 9, contemplatively titled...
‘Dept. Q’ Ending Explained – A Satisfying Finale Provides A Lot Of Well-Earned Payoff
The ending of Dept. Q is all about payoff, which is perhaps just as well given how long it took us to get here. The mystery of...
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Ending Explained – A Slightly Random Conclusion Caps Off A Mixed-Bag Season
It’s probably fitting that a show as mixed as Heavenly Ever After has an ending to suit, with Episodes 11 and 12 providing some answers...
‘The Last Of Us’ Season 2 Ending Explained – A Messy But Mostly Effective Finale
The Last of Us already peaked in Season 2. It was in the penultimate episode where some minor storytelling changes improbably improved the original version.
‘Miss Governor’ Part 1 Ending Explained – A Major Cliffhanger Tees Up Season 2
You know when a show is released in two parts – as is the case with Tyler Perry’s Miss Governor – that the “ending” is really...
‘The Studio’ Ending Explained – Matt Finally Gets His Win, But Not Without Effort
Based on everything we’ve seen from The Studio thus far, it was hard to imagine that even its ending would give Matt a break. And all throughout...
‘Football Parents’ Ending Explained – Team Spirit Wins the Day… Almost
Having thought about it a bit, I’m still not sure whether Football Parents has a happy ending or not. I suppose it depends on who...
‘Bet’ Ending Explained – Yumeko and Kira Go All In Against Each Other
Blackjack! Murder! Revenge! All the elements you’d expect from Bet’s ending are present and correct in Episode 10, “Winner Takes All”, as well as the...
‘Happy Face’ Ending Explained – A Satisfying Finale Can’t Resist A Last-Minute Tease
A cliffhanger ending really doesn’t suit Happy Face, and I spent most of Episode 8, “The Star”, believing that it wasn’t going to get one....
‘The Eternaut’ Ending Explained – A Vague Climax Provides Few Meaningful Answers
I’m not sure what I was expecting from the ending of The Eternaut, but it probably wasn’t what we got. The Netflix series entered Episode 6...
‘Good American Family’ Ending Explained – There Are Many Kinds Of Justice
If you’re looking for justice, especially the typical TV version of the concept, you’re not going to get it from the finale of Good American Family....
‘Poppa’s House’ Ending Explained – A Predictable Cliffhanger Keeps Poppa and Ivy Apart
As someone who has been reiterating that Poppa and Ivy’s relationship is central to Poppa’s House for the last few months, I should theoretically like Episode 18,...
‘Weak Hero’ Class 2 Ending Explained – A (Mostly) Happy Climax Still Leaves Room For More
Is the fight over, or is it just beginning? This, I suppose, is the key question raised by the ending of Weak Hero Class 2,...
‘You’ Season 5 Ending and Themes Explained – “Maybe You’re The Problem”
Seven years later, we finally arrive at the conclusion of Joe Goldberg in You Season 5. Back in 2018, when Season 1 was first released,...
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Ending Explained – Adrenaline, I’m Sure
If you squint a little bit, it’s kind of beautiful. Daredevil: Born Again is only vaguely what one would consider a comic book show, the...
Let’s Answer All the Burning Questions About Netflix’s ‘The Glass Dome’
Netflix’s Scandi noir The Glass Dome is pretty good, taking the quintessential genre framework and delivering a very solid version of it that doesn’t try...
Breaking Down ‘The Glass Dome’ And Its Bleak Ending
Netflix’s Scandi noir The Glass Dome pulls double duty as both a taut whodunnit and a psychological drama, exploring the longstanding effects of intergenerational trauma...
‘Surface’ Season 2 Ending Explained – Limping To A Deeply Unsatisfying Conclusion
Surface has had a very strange trajectory in Season 2, hasn’t it? It started out feeling very inert, then it gradually whipped up some steam...