TV Recaps

You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but I do think I’ve sussed Alfonso Cuaron’s Disclaimer out. As of Episode 1, it’s a handsomely...

When you go on the run, you only take the essentials, and that’s the feeling that hangs over The Old Man as we enter the...

I have been relatively positive about Agatha All Along since the beginning, but Episode 5, “Darkest Hour / Wake Thy Power”, feels like the moment...

Since the premiere of Grotesquerie, I’ve complained pretty reliably about the inclusion of the inclusion of the Nurse Redd storyline, which has always felt like...

From bad to worse; out of the frying pan into the fire. Pick whichever idiom you like, but that’s the vibe of Grotesquerie Episode 5....

The Pogues are panicked at the start of Outer Banks Season 4, Episode 5. After the altercation between Terrance, Cleo, and Lightner, they are left...

I can say with a relative degree of certainty that Tell Me Lies is the most stressful show in existence, for all kinds of reasons, many of...

Slow Horses Season 4 doesn’t have a happy ending. It’s actually rather bleak. No justice is done. Painful sacrifices are made. There really seems to be...

Bravo to Bad Monkey, because it’s the rare streaming show with a proper ending. Episode 10, “We’re in the Memory-Making Business”, brings all of the key...

I’ve pointed out the potential of Brilliant Minds already, but I feel especially validated by Episode 3, “The Lost Biker”. This, I think, is the...

Just like the field trip earlier in the season, the aptly-titled “Convention” gets the teachers out of the classroom. But even though Evan thinks that...

Only Murders in the Building is never short of craziness and chaos. Season 4, Episode 7, aptly titled “Valley of the Dolls,” may have gotten...

Love Next Door comes to a close with Episode 15 and Episode 16, and lo and behold, the K-Drama has a perfectly happy, upbeat ending....

I confess to having thought that Tulsa King Season 2 would start to intensify a little in Episode 4, but everyone’s wrong from time to time. “Heroes...

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is improving, so that’s something. Season 2 is still wildly imperfect, but I didn’t spend Episode 2, “Moulin Rouge”, getting...

Travis Kelce is a handsome fellow, isn’t he? I bring this up since his much-advertised presence in Grotesquerie is the rare light spot in what...

Is Angela/Emily/Parwana dead? That’s certainly the question we’re left with by the end of The Old Man Season 2, Episode 5, though anyone who has...

I keep hearing that Agatha All Along is the gayest thing Marvel has done. I’m not sure what this means, or how this can be...