TV Recaps

Nobody really likes other people’s weddings, but it turns out a Scottish pagan witch wedding is quite a thing.

Like many people, I can’t wait for When the Stars Gossip to end. And while that might sound a little harsh, don’t worry about it, since I firmly believe that the show itself can’t wait to end either.

If I asked you what Yellowjackets is about, what would you say? For most shows, it’d be an easy question to answer, but for this one, I’m not so sure.

Despite a three-year gap between seasons after having left things on a pretty significant finale, the main takeaway from Surface’s second season premiere is that it still doesn’t seem in much of a hurry to get where it’s going.

In Episode 6 of Severance Season 2, Gretchen technically cheats on Dylan with Dylan, but it’s impossible to tell whether this is a morally justifiable action because they’re both technically the same person.

Reacher is back, and mostly unchanged, at least as far as the premiere of Season 3 goes. Is this a bad thing? No, not at all.

One of my primary concerns was that Poppy would be avoidant in Mythic Quest Season 4, Episode 5, after discovering she was pregnant in the previous episode.

It's remarkable quite how bad Prime Target is, especially since it'd be easy to make it riveting.

On balance, Episode 3 of The Hunting Party is the best one yet, in large part because it seems to understand that everything involving the Pit and its secrets is significantly more interesting than the actual case-of-the-week plotting.

At first glance, Paradise becomes a very different show in Episode 6, “You Asked for Miracles”. This is the first time Xavier – or anyone, for that matter – has been able to successfully turn the tables on Sinatra.

Episode 2 of Watson is about a guy who thinks he’s someone else, which is pretty apt since this is a show that can’t seem to decide what it is.

The White Lotus isn’t getting predictable, but it is getting more familiar, which you can tell writer/director Mike White is playing with intentionally in Season 3.

The weekly death of When the Stars Gossip is becoming quite a thing to behold, with Episode 14 hammering yet another nail into the coffin of a woeful drama that has, through sheer force of its ineptitude, begun tanking the South Korean TV market altogether.

A relatively big deal was made of Rowan, Moira, Cortland, and Lark making their way to Scotland for what one assumes will be a confrontation with Ian Mayfair and the rest of the pagan side of the family.

I’m not exactly a soothsayer, but as soon as When the Stars Gossip returned to Earth, I just knew it had nowhere else to really go.

Are we being lured into a false sense of security? That’s the vibe I get from the Season 3 premiere of Yellowjackets, which debuts in Episodes 1 & 2 with the vibe of a soft reboot after Season 2 went a little off the rails.

If there’s a word to describe Episode 5 of Severance Season 2, it’s probably “sinister”. This isn’t entirely new for the show – the previous episode ended with someone almost being drowned in an icy river – but it usually comes in fits and starts.

The final episodes of Cobra Kai Season 6 have been surprisingly light on karate, but Episode 14, "Strike Last", makes up for that tenfold with not one but two bouts to determine the male and female champions of the Sekai Taikai.