TV Recaps

Truth being told, I don't know what people don't like about Chad Powers. As far as comedies go, it does more or less everything right.

Brilliant Minds has always been good, and sometimes it has been very good, but in Season 2, it really might be at its peak.

The clue is in the name, sometimes. Even if you didn’t know that HBO’s The Chair Company comes from I Think You Should Leave’s Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, the simple fact that it’s called The Chair Company should be a bit of a giveaway that it’s slightly off-kilter as far as comedies go.

People die. This is true in real life and even truer in television shows, since drama needs conflict, and conflict is invariably kicked off and concluded with violence.

Season 3 of Billy the Kid seems best characterised as “the one where he gets ambushed everywhere he goes”, which must be demoralising when you’re trying to organise a resistance movement.

Well, we’re in the ‘90s, of that there can be no doubt. The whole aesthetic of Typhoon Family reflects the period in which it’s set, but it’s not all in service of chintzy nostalgia.

While not quite the standout that the wide-scale defence of Solaz and Daryl’s solo train side quest were, Episode 6 still feels like Season 3 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon operating at a pretty high standard.

Jeremiah Dunmire’s goons stealing the Montague 50 seemed like a much bigger deal than it ends up being in Tulsa King Season 3, Episode 4.

That excitable, itchy feeling of a penultimate episode definitely creeps into The Rainmaker here, and it’s perhaps just as well, since it hasn’t always been...

If you want to build sympathy for anything in film and TV, you make it resemble an animal.

It would have been difficult for The Last Frontier to compete with its premiere in pure action terms, so in Episode 2, "Wind of Change", it doesn't bother.

If nothing else, The Last Frontier is going to be another hit for Apple TV+.

Gen V Season 2 continues to lean on more explicit cameos and connections to The Boys.

You can’t say I didn’t warn you. It was only a matter of time before the cracks started to emerge in Karl and Cassandra’s relationship.

I don’t have much hope for the future of Karl and Cassandra’s relationship, if I’m being honest.

One murder is usually enough for High Potential, but Episode 4 of Season 2, “Behind the Music”, has two to worry about.

"Love the Questions" is one of those episodes of The Morning Show that has too much going on. Not too too much, not too much to possibly keep up with, but objectively too much, like just enough that a lot of it feels underserved and fleeting.

Most of Slow Horses Season 5, Episode 3 takes place in two rooms. One of them is a dingy basement at Regent's Park, where Roddy Ho has been taken for interrogation by Lady Di herself.