TV Recaps

Travis Kelce is a handsome fellow, isn’t he? I bring this up since his much-advertised presence in Grotesquerie is the rare light spot in what...

Is Angela/Emily/Parwana dead? That’s certainly the question we’re left with by the end of The Old Man Season 2, Episode 5, though anyone who has...

I keep hearing that Agatha All Along is the gayest thing Marvel has done. I’m not sure what this means, or how this can be...

Slow Horses operates at such a consistently high level that it didn’t occur to me until midway through Episode 5 of Season 4, “Grave Danger”,...

Murders in picturesque local towns are like buses. You wait ages for one, and then several come along at once. That’s how it must feel...

On the one hand, Tell Me Lies Season 2, Episode 6, once again appropriately titled “Do Your Dirty Words Come Out to Play?”, is a bristlingly effective...

Every episode of Where’s Wanda? is named after a family. The premiere focused on the Klatts, which is understandable since they’re at the very center of the...

“The Calm Before the Storm” is a well-known expression, but it applies to Episode 9 of Bad Monkey more than usual since there is literally a storm...

There’s a delicate balance to Where’s Wanda?, Apple TV+’s small-town German mystery series about a missing 17-year-old girl. Episode 1, “The Klatts”, is hilarious but deeply...

Okay, everyone. Only Murders in the Building Season 4, Episode 6 has a lot going on. Following the shooting at the OMITB production office in...

I wasn’t sure about Brilliant Minds after a mixed-bag premiere, but I’m pleased to report that Season 1, Episode 2, “The Disembodied Woman”, is a really good...

The main joke of English Teacher Episode 6 isn’t that funny when you think about it. The youth of today is so sensitive, coddled, and reactionary that...

Sophie Turner’s post-Game of Thrones career hasn’t exactly been prolific, which is surprising. Anyone who survives eight seasons of that show – especially the last...

Episode 2 of The Penguin, “Inside Man”, is as good as the premiere was, which got me thinking. Why? That isn’t a trick question. There...

Industry Season 3 was never heading to a happy ending, but even I didn’t expect one quite so cynical as this. Episode 8, “Infinite Largesse”,...

There’s nothing like a brush with death to put things in perspective, and that’s where Seung-hyo is at in Love Next Door Episode 14. Predictably,...

Love Next Door is falling off a bit, right? It might just be me. But Episode 13 felt like a show that should have already...

Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is subtitled The Book of Carol. I don’t like that for several reasons – “Book Of” sounds...