TV Recaps
Do you want to know what happened in the latest episode of a TV show? Have you binged an original series and need to understand the finale of a season? Here is our archive of TV Recaps breaking down episodes from many series, including your favorite show.
‘Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?’ Season 4, Episode 14 Recap – A Thrilling Arc
Just when it seems like things can’t get any worse for Bell (Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) and his party, something even more heartbreaking happens that seems to take...
‘The Interest of Love’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – It’s Complicated Now
Ahn Su-yeong (Moon Ga-young) and Ha Sang-su (Yoo Yeon-seok) are officially playing with fire. They’ve held that burning desire for each other for too long, and...
A Breakdown of Every Episode of ‘Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre’ Season 1
The Netflix anime anthology Junji Ito Maniac adapts the collected works of beloved mangaka Junji Ito into 20 stories spread across 12 25-minute episodes. Ito is a...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 12 Recap – “Whispering Woman” / “Soichi’s Beloved Pet”
“Whispering Woman” is adapted from the eighth chapter of Ma No Kakera, and treads unusual territory by being rooted in friendship and a positive bond,...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 11 Recap – “Alley” / “Headless Statue”
“Alley”, essentially a murder mystery with a supernatural slant, is adapted from Back Alley, the fifth chapter of The Bully from Horror World of Junji Ito. For Ito...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – “Unendurable Labyrinth” / “The Bully”
This double-bill episode collects, I think, the weirdest pair of stories in Junji Ito Maniac, not in terms of their actual content but in how...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – “Tomie – Photo”
Tomie is one of Junji Ito’s most iconic characters. She got an entire volume devoted to her in Horror World of Junji Ito and her...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – “Layers of Terror” / “The Thing That Drifted Ashore”
Oh goodness, this is a weird one. There’s a case to be made that this is the most horrifying and imaginative episode of Junji Ito Maniac thus...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – “Tomb Town”
Junji Ito Maniac abandons the dual-story structure in its seventh episode to instead deliver a more comprehensive and focused adaptation of Street of Gravestones (or...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “Mold” / “Library Vision”
“Mold”, a story adapted from the seventh volume of Horror World of Junji Ito, Slug Girl, is another creeping tale of rapidly-worsening circumstances that revolves heavily...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – “Intruder” / “Long Hair in the Attic”
“Intruder”, taken from the ninth volume of Horror World of Junji Ito, Hallucinations, has a clever concept that is horrifying in a low-key, imaginative way, and...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – “Hanging Balloon”
The third episode of Junji Ito Maniac is my favorite so far, a hauntingly horrible bit of work adapted from the fourth volume of Horror World of...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – “The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel” / “Ice Cream Bus”
The second episode of Junji Ito Maniac is the first of the anthology’s two-parters. “The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel” is the title story in...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap – “The Strange Hikizuri Siblings”
The first episode of the Netflix anthology Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre adapts a single story from The Circus is Here, the fifth...
‘Tomo-chan Is a Girl!’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – “Best Bud’s Secret/Let’s Go on a Date!”
Tomo-Chan is a Girl! stepped it up in Episode 2, providing viewers with more substance while giving them more reason to care about these characters....
‘Bungo Stray Dogs’ Season 4, Episode 3 Recap – “Secrets of the Founding of the Detective Agency”
Bungo Stray Dogs Season 4 Episode 2 left viewers with a lot to think about, especially after ending the episode on a major cliffhanger. Just...
‘The Interest of Love’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – A Tantalizing Love Story
This has, somehow, turned into an intriguing love story between two work employees who are flagrantly pining for each other but, for whatever reason, cannot...
‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – Who Wins the Riot Race?
“Faster” is, essentially, a standalone episode of The Bad Batch. Echo and Hunter aren’t even in it. It has no bearing on the wider overarching...