TV Recaps

The old chess metaphor is pretty played out, but it's by far the most appropriate one to describe what's happening in Mayor of Kingstown Season 4.

Sheriff Country has some mixed subplots in terms of quality, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s similarly inarguable that the main thrust of it is really very good.

I’ve spent most of my coverage of Boston Blue complaining about conflict – or the lack of it, as has often been the case here.

A couple of things occurred to me while watching Episode 6 of Pluribus. One is that this show would be terrible if anyone other than Vince Gilligan were behind it.

Season 3 of Loot continues to be an exercise in making a once-great show as cripplingly uninteresting as possible.

How do you prove you didn’t kill someone who has disappeared? How do you prove that someone who has disappeared is a murderer?

The last episode of Down Cemetery Road felt like a penultimate episode, so it stands to reason that Episode 7, “Lights Go Out”, should feel like...

Just in case you were wondering whether DMV itself is aware of how annoying Colette is, Episode 8 has you covered.

I’m not the biggest fan of Watson, as anyone who has been reading these Season 2 recaps can probably tell, but I’m happy to admit...

Sorry, but what is going on here? All's Fair hasn't exactly been easy to take seriously since the beginning, but Episode 7 takes the show's blurring of drama and comedy to such an extreme that I have no real idea of whether it's finally revealing itself as an outright parody or is simply so rubbish that the distinction has become meaningless.

What do you get when you take a show about mindless excess and complete, weaponised vacuity, and then have everyone in it suddenly realise that they want to do something meaningful with their lives?

I was going to start this recap by saying that things aren’t looking too good in It: Welcome to Derry, but now that I think about it, that’s only a matter of perspective.

Robin Hood and his Not-So-Merry Men have definitely crossed a line. They’re not just bandits now, but fully-fledged outlaws.

Can you smell that? No, it’s not hydrogen sulphide – although, this being Landman, it kind of is hydrogen sulphide – but the skeleton of a plot, and a point, both of which seem to be manifesting in Season 2 in a way that they never quite managed to do first time around.

Mayor of Kingstown continues to treat Season 4 as an exercise in how bad things can get for almost everyone involved.

We’re finally on the penultimate episode of Typhoon Family, and about midway through, I realised I’ve checked out.

When it’s firing on all cylinders, Sheriff Country is a superb procedural, as evidenced by its previous outing.

It definitely feels like Boston Blue is learning. Like the previous episode, which for the first time attempted to meaningfully challenge almost all of its characters, Episode 6, “Code of Ethics”, throws in a few new wrinkles, especially for Danny and Baez.