TV Recaps

I’ll say this for Episode 2 of Terror Tuesday: Extreme, which is simply titled “Wedding Dress” — it has a good sense of visual horror. You...

OK, let’s set the scene for Terror Tuesday: Extreme Episode 8, “Viral Curse.” Ple, the mother, runs a laundrette. She’s under pressure to do loads...

I’m fairly confident that no good things have ever come from inviting a creepy doll into one’s home. Honestly, what is the upside? The first...

Sometimes what you want from a TV show is comfort and familiarity. Love Next Door fits the bill. It’s a classic friends-to-lovers tale with all...

The genius of Industry has always been that it can build knuckle-whitening tension without the audience requiring any knowledge of the financial world it depicts....

Romance in the House is an odd, slightly confounding show, but with every episode, it seems to be getting closer to cohering into a much...

In Episode 3, Romance in the House continues to be a bit hit and miss, with lurching shifts in tone that don’t always work and...

I have little hesitation in declaring Episode 6 of The Serpent Queen Season 2, “Courting the Valois”, the best thus far. Most of the problems...

The penultimate episode of Lady in the Lake is easily the most formally daring, devoting most of its runtime to elaborate dream sequences in which Maddie grapples...

Things are starting to heat up in Snowpiercer Season 4, though perhaps that isn’t exactly the right word given at the end of Episode 5 a major...

Season 4 of Emily in Paris at the halfway mark is everything we expected. Episode 5, “Trompe l’oeil,” sees trouble for Camille, an untimely revelation...

Severed arms, grubby land deals, some light witchcraft, and, yes, a monkey, all feature in the two-part premiere of Apple TV+’s Bad Monkey. Episodes 1...

Industry has always been good, but in Season 3 it’s exceptional. Episode 1, “Il Mattino ha L’Oro in Boca” — an Italian phrase meaning “the morning...

The premiere of Romance in the House largely worked on the basis of mystery, but nobody – including me – stopped to wonder if perhaps...

Of all the subgenres of Korean drama, romance is among the most enduringly popular and closely associated with the nation’s output. Romance in the House...

Generally speaking, I like The Serpent Queen quite a bit, but something occurred to me in Episode 5 of Season 2 that gave me pause...

I don’t know about anyone else, but I expected it might take an episode or two for Big Alice to catch up to Snowpiercer. Lo...

It was only a matter of time before Maddie’s attempts at being a reporter got her into serious trouble, and that finally happens in Lady...