Comedy
‘My Royal Nemesis’ Season 1, Episode 11 Recap – Things Are Getting A Little Confusing
Everyone is worried about the ending of My Royal Nemesis, and I don’t think Episode 11 is going to assuage any concerns. If you really...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Fans Think There’s Still More to Be Revealed About Ruth
Widow’s Bay is all anyone seems to be talking about in TV Land these days, and for good reason. The show’s an endlessly enjoyable onion of...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Revealed Richard Warren’s Last Living Descendent, And the Clues Were There All Along
In yet another kick-yourself plot development, Widow’s Bay has just revealed Richard Warren’s last living descendant, and annoyingly, the writing was kind of on the wall all...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – A Raging Storm, And A History Lesson
As Widow’s Bay hurries towards its finale, it’s running out of mysteries to solve. We’ve been reliably told that Season 1 will complete the story, and Episode...
‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – Nailed It
If we’re being honest, things haven’t been going especially well for Paula since the very beginning of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. But they’re definitely going worse for...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – The Mature Approach
It was, of course, pretty obvious that most of the promising-looking subplots developed in the previous episode of Not Suitable for Work were going to get a...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – Work-Life Imbalance
After a fairly chaotic three-part premiere in which all manner of things went wrong for the residents of Murray Hill, it has taken until Episode...
‘Alice and Steve’ Season 1 Ending Explained – It’s All Going Up in Smoke
While Alice and Steve doesn’t seem like the kind of show that would necessarily need a second season, the ending of Season 1 makes a...
‘Alice and Steve’ Season 1 Review – A Sharp, Unconventional “Wrong-Com”
As far as elevator pitches go, there are few as inherently icky as the one underpinning Alice and Steve. But is it that bad, really?...
‘My Royal Nemesis’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – The Best Outing Yet?
For much of Season 1, My Royal Nemesis has kind of flitted between genres and tones, shifting focus between each of its constituent parts. Sometimes...
‘My Royal Nemesis’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – Mun-do’s Meddling Hogs Focus
My Royal Nemesis started getting pretty serious as Season 1 approaches its latter stages, and that trend continues in Episode 9, “That’s First Love for...
‘Office Romance’ Review – An R-Rating Can’t Elevate A By-the-Numbers Rom-Com
Maybe it’s my familiarity with him playing bumbling sad-sack figures in stuff like Ted Lasso and Shrinking, but I must confess to never having imagined...
‘Not Suitable for Work’ Season 1 Premiere Recap – ‘Friends’ For A New Generation?
As much as I quite liked the Season 1 premiere of Mindy Kaling’s Hulu workplace comedy Not Suitable for Work, it mostly reminded me how...
‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – Paula’s Past Life
There’s an old saying that suggests if you meet an arsehole in the morning, you met an arsehole; if you meet an arsehole in the...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – And They Think It’s All Over
In what continues to be a stellar example of deft writing and direction, not to mention satisfying mystery-box-style storytelling, Widow’s Bay reinvents Halloween in the same way that...
‘Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express – the Movie’ Review – All Aboard For A Delightful Journey
I’m forever complaining about shows and movies being too long, but it’s rare I ever moan about anything being too short. It’s basically impossible to...
‘My Royal Nemesis’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – It’s All Coming Together
My Royal Nemesis has made such a fuss about being a romantic comedy – largely a comedy above and beyond any other consideration – that...
‘My Royal Nemesis’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – A Little More Seriousness Works Well
Good news, folks – My Royal Nemesis is on a bit of an uptick in Episode 7. I’ve been critical of this recent portion of...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Episode 7 Recap – This Is The New High-Water Mark
Even though it follows directly from the end of Tom passing out from his mushroom trip, it’s very obvious why Apple TV decided to air...
‘Widow’s Bay’ Episode 6 Recap – Betty Gilpin Steals the Show
If I’m being totally honest, I can’t say that Episode 5 of Widow’s Bay, which is almost entirely a flashback to 1702 and a nascent version...