TV Recaps

The good news — or bad news, I suppose, depending on where you’re sitting — is that, despite getting a shard of glass wedged in...

Generally speaking, tea parties are about as fun as they sound. This, it turns out, is especially true of The Testaments, wherein tea parties are the...

If there’s a better argument for giving a show a chance than Imperfect Women, I struggle to think of one. Apple TV+’s female-focused murder-mystery started out...

The secret to most Bill Lawrence shows is that you want to spend time with their characters. You like them, as you would your own...

Euphoria has always been many things – salacious, provocative, stupid, lurid, occasionally brilliant, and so on, and so forth – but chief among them was...

Lightsaber fights are like buses. You wait ages for one, and then several come at once. As it turns out, Devon’s little stand-off with Maul...

Well, it took until Episode 3, but Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord finally included a lightsaber duel. And it was fine! Not a patch...

I’ve always hated the naive – and, frankly, entirely incorrect – idea that characters in stories have to be “likeable” or “relatable”. There are all-time-great...

Jonathan Glatzer’s TV résumé is tough to argue with, but it’s difficult to watch his Silicon Valley satire The Audacity and not feel like the...

American Classic isn’t the kind of show that suits a big late-stage twist. Now that I think about it, I’d never even considered the idea...

Edgewater is a pretty weird place, which isn’t helped by the fact that most people there are on drugs. But for once, the town’s lax...

I’ve been complaining for weeks that Boston Blue tends not to make use of Sean and Jonah, but at the risk of sounding like I’m...

As a network procedural, you can’t fault The Hunting Party for having a pattern. Season 2 has relied on it to varying extents, delivering a slew of...

The Pitt feels unusually reserved in the penultimate episode of Season 2. It isn’t that there aren’t new patients being wheeled in all the time, or...

Fittingly for an hour titled “Gloves Off”, Daredevil: Born Again is taking some pretty big narrative swings in Episode 4. I don’t think anybody expected...

It took a while, but The Testaments finally shifts its focus in Episode 3 to provide more context around what Daisy is really up to. And it’s...

If you squint a bit, The Testaments at least resembles a YA drama, a coming-of-age tale about a teenager navigating the perils of adolescence. It’s not, obviously...

Dystopias don’t tend to be colourful, but colour is at the very core of Hulu’s The Testaments. You see it everywhere in Episode 1, “Precious Flowers”,...