TV Recaps

Prime Video’s new The Ghost in the Shell is the kind of reboot designed around pleasing existing fans instead of compelling new ones. That seems...

We’re a week out from the finale of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, and things are finally starting to take shape. I’m beginning to suspect that Season 1...

House of the Dragon is really rather good, isn’t it? This is not a show that has been without problems over the years, and after kick-starting...

After years of delays, Kyoto Animation’s Sparks of Tomorrow arrives on Netflix with a clear mission statement premiere, a steampunk coming-of-age premise driven by faith,...

Maybe it’s just me, but I never particularly bought into the idea that Min-ji might be dead. A show about a highly dangerous and ticked-off...

It turns out I’m in the market for middle-aged men whooping people. Who’d have thought? The ahjussi angle that seems to have been a clear...

While John Sugar being an alien is the primary differentiating twist of his namesake Apple TV show, it does have some downsides. One of the...

After (presumably) killing off three major characters in highly dramatic circumstances, it was obvious that Episode 7 of Star City was going to have some explaining to...

Viewers have been making fun of Apple TV’s Cape Fear for most of Season 1 thus far, and I’ve been steadfastly defending it. I could acknowledge that...

I know what you’re going to say — there’s nothing more contrived than an amnesia plot. However true this might be, though, and as weird...

Lawyers are like buses, apparently -- you wait ages for one to turn up, and then two come along at once. This is the predicament that Paula finds herself in here in Episode 8 of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, which is just the latest in a long string of predicaments that include being arrested for a double-murder and locked up on Rikers Island.

Giant battles full of dragons and destruction are all well and good, but the heart of a story like House of the Dragon lives in the aftermath. It beats to the rhythm of bodies washing up against the rocks of a shoreline and hides in the wreckage of naval fleets razed to matchsticks.

You know exactly where Agent Kim Reactivated is going in Episode 1 and 2, but this isn’t a criticism. It’s one of those stories – think John Wick or Nobody – that hinges on the catharsis of a seemingly ordinary, run-of-the-mill guy secretly being an all-action killing machine, so the premiere is about fostering that vibe.

John Sugar is an immigrant, a literal alien, which is probably worth keeping in the back of your mind when watching Season 2 of Sugar. Not that the show is going to let you forget it, at least not based on Episode 2, “Downer Town”, which is very much backdropped by the idea of people making their way in strange places that are often hostile to them, and feeling, privately, that they’re completely on their own in doing so.

In many ways, it feels like “Awl in a Sack” is the episode that Star City has been building up to throughout Season 1. It’s...

I get that it’s a little too easy to complain about Carter every week, but I just can’t help it. Dutton Ranch continues to orbit inexplicably around...

The mystery about Nevaeh potentially being Max Cady’s daughter lasted until the opening scene of Cape Fear Episode 5, where it’s confirmed outright. You’d think...

It’s easy to forget that Aang’s a kid, sometimes. Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of those hero’s journey fantasy stories that thrust youngsters into the deep...