TV Recaps

I get that it’d be a stretch to say the Xenomorphs are the good guys in Alien: Earth, but it’s a possibility we should probably consider. The upside of relocating this franchise to terra firma is that it provides a much broader sample buffet of extraterrestrial entrées.

It’s amazing that there hasn’t been an Alien TV show until now. It seems so obvious.

Prime Video’s espionage thriller Butterfly, based on the BOOM! Studios graphic novel series created by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett, is a family affair as much...

I get that Platonic is largely a show about college friends slowly realizing they’re not in college anymore, but by Season 2, you’d think it would have...

If there’s anything particular that Beyond the Bar does well, it’s navigating that incredibly wispy line between right and wrong.

Breaking out of The Institute has been such a fixed goal for so long that I'd forgotten -- and presumably Luke had, too, or had perhaps never realized in the first place -- that it was only the first step to freedom.

I can’t help but feel that Beyond the Bar is flying under the radar a bit.

It wouldn't be fair to claim that The Winning Try has been unserious to this point, because it had me pretty much sobbing already, but it definitely hasn't been as serious as it is in Episode 6.

While it's ostensibly a show about rugby, The Winning Try is really a show about people. And this is becoming more and more obvious as we progress, with Episode 5 being perhaps the best example of it.

Dexter has always been about death in one way or another, but its spectre is felt more acutely than ever in Episode 6 of Dexter: Resurrection, and not just in the usual sense.

There are very few shows that start as badly as Smoke did, only to end up being quite this good.

After the second episode built to a surprising climax that separated the core cast, Chief of War has to establish a new status quo in Episode 3, "City of Flowers".

Drivers, start your engines -- the Twisted Metal tournament is officially underway.

Tortured vehicular metaphors being my speciality, I'm happy to say that Twisted Metal pumps the brakes a little here in "LZGTBZY".

Allow me to start with something I neglected to mention in the previous episode, since it becomes important here in Episode 3, "Call of the Woe".

Wednesday Season 2 started as it means to go on, capably proved by Episode 2, which makes it clear that things aren't going to get any simpler as we go.

Students invariably spend the summer holidays getting into mischief, so on that level, at least, Wednesday Addams is pretty normal.

Episode 2 of Platonic Season 2 interestingly takes an almost opposite approach to its predecessor, which focused primarily on how Will's self-sabotage was threatening to upend his cozy life with Jenna through the medium of his relationship with Sylvia.