Comedy
‘Widow’s Bay’ Premiere Recap – There’s Something In the Fog
If one thing is obvious about Widow’s Bay – the remote New England fishing town and not the very funny and surprisingly scary Apple TV...
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Episode 7 Recap – This Is Getting A Little Dark
Well, we knew it was coming. But that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with now that it’s here. It was obvious when Mark...
‘Rooster’ Ending Explained – A Festive Finale Sticks the Landing Better Than Expected
I will confess to not having enjoyed Rooster as much as I expected to. First impressions were good, of course, but its ideas and characters...
‘Rooster’ Episode 9 Recap – Greg Isn’t Going Anywhere
To say the show is called Rooster, it’s very much not about Rooster for depressingly large stretches. And given we’re right on the cusp of...
‘My Royal Nemesis’ Episode 2 Recap – I Think I See Some Problems Emerging
One of the major selling points of My Royal Nemesis is that it reverses the typical direction of a transmigration gimmick. Generally, especially with an explicit time...
‘My Royal Nemesis’ Episode 1 Recap – I Think We Can See Where This Is Going
Reminiscent of Bon Appetit, Your Majesty, and a smattering of other “out of time and place” streaming K-Dramas, at first blush, My Royal Nemesis is too familiar to...
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Episode 6 Recap – HungryGhost Is Exposed
One of the best flourishes of Margo’s Got Money Troubles is that it really sells the idea of its title character’s OnlyFans page as a...
‘The Audacity’ Episode 5 Recap – The Art of the Palo Alto Breakdown
The single best idea of The Audacity is its decision to scale up the breakdown of rich people. Most shows would do the opposite. The...
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Episode 5 Recap – A Vegas Wedding Full Of Brilliance
A Vegas wedding is perfect for Shyanne and Kenny, since nothing about their union is especially sincere. This is not to say that they don’t...
‘Rooster’ Episode 8 Recap – I Think This Might Be All We’re Going To Get
At the risk of repeating myself, I’m not sure Rooster is really going anywhere. I keep giving it a chance to, and Episode 8 is...
‘The Audacity’ Episode 4 Recap – Harvesting Personal Data Isn’t Evil Enough
It’s easy to forget this, but The Audacity is ostensibly about Duncan and JoAnne. You all remember the premiere, right? You remember how it was...
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Episode 4 Recap – Everyone’s An Exhibitionist
Margo’s Got Money Troubles, fittingly for a show about an aspiring writer, has a great facility for catchy insults and screen names. I’ve never heard...
‘Rooster’ Episode 7 Recap – Walt Just Wants A Friend
I didn’t expect the most meaningful sentiment of Rooster thus far to come from Walt, of all people, but here we are in Episode 7, three half-hours removed from the finale, and the hothouse has become a source of surprising pathos.
‘The Audacity’ Episode 3 Recap – Along Came A Spider
“Fly” is the most famously divisive episode of Breaking Bad, a budget-saving bottle hour in which Walter White and, eventually, Jesse become dangerously obsessed with...
‘Balls Up’ Proves Paul Walter Hauser Improves Anything
A while ago, I reviewed the movie Train Dreams on Netflix – don’t worry, this is going somewhere – and said that it was basically...
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Premiere Recap – Sneakily Brilliant, Already
It takes all of Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ three-part premiere to get to the premise, which revolves around a struggling single mother starting an OnlyFans...
‘Rooster’ Episode 6 Recap – There Are Some Things You Can’t Unsee
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...
‘DTF St. Louis’ Ending Explained – This Is A Tricky One To Unpack
I have a sneaking suspicion that people aren’t going to love the ending of DTF St. Louis. And I can see why, honestly. I’m about to...
‘The Audacity’ Episode 2 Recap – The Gift of the Gun
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...
‘The Audacity’ Episode 1 Recap – Lifestyles of the Rich and the Stupid
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...