TV Recaps

Even though I rather liked the premiere episode of Succession, I can’t say I was particularly enthused about tuning in again today. There must be...

“An orphan at last, just what I’ve always wanted,” says Patrick Melrose in the fifth and final episode of this wonderful series. Adapted from the...

Vida Season 1, Episode 5 opened to the sound of rhythmic chanting as Eddy and a group of elderly Latina women fondled rosary beads and...

In Patrick Melrose Season 1, Episode 4, adapted from Edward St Aubyn’s novel “Mother’s Milk,” an older Patrick, now a barrister and married with two...

In Vida Season 1, Episode 4, which might have been the show’s best so far, both Lyn and Emma struck out on their own for...

Patrick Melrose Season 1, Episode 3, adapted from Edward St Aubyn’s third novel, “Some Hope,” took a cleaned-up Patrick to a glitzy party deep in...

Tess’s dedication to turning her temporary waitressing gig into a permanent one continues to impress in Sweetbitter Season 1, Episode 3, even if I am...

Juggling three concurrent storylines involving all of the major characters, Vida Season 1, Episode 3 was a typically entertaining half-hour of Starz’s progressive and inclusive...

Patrick Melrose Season 1, Episode 2 was an unrelentingly bleak hour of television; a far cry, tonally, from the knockabout majesty of Episode 1, “Bad News”....

The buddy-cop subgenre of action-comedy might seem like a distinctly American thing, but you can always rely on the British to steal other cultures. And...

Vida, debuted around the same time as Sweetbitter but is thankfully much, much better, is something of a minefield – for me, anyway. It’s about,...

I’ve made it two full episodes into Sweetbitter, the Starz series adapted from the novel of the same name by Stephanie Danler, and it occurs...

“Old bastard’s only gone and died,” says the lugubrious Patrick Melrose after receiving some bad news from New York in the first episode to be...

We recap the Netflix K-Variety series Busted! Season 1 Episodes 1 and 2, which will contain minor spoilers.  The Korean variety show scene is alien...

Episode 10 of Season 3 of Ash vs Evil Dead acts as part two of the penultimate chapter and keeps the non-stop action all the...

Theodore Sturgeon’s Amok Time kicks off season two of Star Trek: The Original Series with a bang. Because of Spock’s immense popularity, season two begins with...

Season 1, episode 27 of Star Trek: The Original Series, The Alternative Factor is not only pretty darned bad, it’s nearly incomprehensible at times. Written by...

In Violet Evergarden Season 1, Episode 5, the anime series picks up where it left off. The lead character goes on another adventure to implement...