TV Recaps

Not to be hyperbolic about things, but "Dear Henry" is a properly masterful hour of television. When I talked about how Industry Season 4 gets better as it goes along, this is the kind of thing I was talking about.

Delayed gratification is the art of making someone wait for something they definitely want, and it’s an idea very neatly displayed in Episode 5 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

This might be harsh, but I'm starting to wonder how stupid Alice Monroe really is. I can accept her ignoring some obvious red flags. But the more that Vanished progresses, the more it seems like there wasn't a single aspect of Alice's relationship with Tom that wasn't suspicious.

I know I'm always singing the praises of The Pitt in a way that might border on hyperbolic, but then an episode like "12:00 P.M." comes along and vindicates me entirely.

Wait, what happened to Star Trek: Starfleet Academy? I was more on board with this show than most to begin with, but I felt as...

Even though the titular product very much twists through the entire DNA of The Beauty, I’m pretty sure we didn’t need any more explanation about...

Cross Season 2 has been pretty tight-lipped when it comes to providing answers about what’s really going on. This is to be expected, of course,...

Cross Season 2 seems to know where it’s going, and is in a hurry to get there. This is no bad thing, in my view,...

The first season of Cross was pretty dark, granted, but it wasn’t “burning alive and cutting the fingers off of rich child predators” dark, so...

Honesty is the best policy, or so the saying goes, but I'm not sure Sam Nelson would agree. Throughout Season 2 of Hijack, he has been pretty understandably cagey, all the better to sell the inverted premise of Apple TV+'s claustrophobic thriller.

There's a fine line between happiness and crippling trauma. It's a line that Shrinking has tiptoed along beautifully since the beginning, and never more so than in Season 3, which has an inescapable spectre looming over it that it won't allow us to forget.

Things are really starting to heat up in Memory of a Killer now. If Episode 3 was all about teasing out Angelo’s worsening Alzheimer’s issues, making vague hints about who the Ferryman might be and who might be double-crossing whom, Episode 4, “Unhappy Ending”, is about fleshing those lingering suspicions out into full-blown theories.

I do like Memory of a Killer, and I think it has a fundamentally great premise, but you can feel it wearing a little bit in Episode 3, “Samurai”. This is partly the fault of Angelo himself, who is rather in denial about his worsening memory issues and keeps neglecting them, making his already complicated situation even worse.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Tell Me Lies is about highly dysfunctional people doing deeply deplorable things. Always has been. But even by those standards, Season 3 has...

No dog chasing a car ever stopped to consider what it might do if it caught it, and similarly, Camille and Issei never really thought...

Things seemed bad enough for Alice Monroe. Her boyfriend, Tom, was not only afraid of commitment, but also missing. And she couldn’t seem to trust anyone she met to help her, which, in a show titled Vanished is kind of expected, but nonetheless constitutes a problem.

In its limited screentime thus far, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has done a pretty remarkable job of communicating a much more hopeful tone than you’d necessarily expect from a show set in the same brutal universe as Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.

There are a lot of good ideas in “Eyes Without a Face”. It's the first proper out-of-office hour of Industry Season 4, which is always nice, sending two underused characters to a far-flung location on a side mission that rattles the foundations of the main plot.