Crime

I have no idea if Owen Hendricks is a good lawyer because in two seasons of The Recruit, he hasn’t practiced any law. I don’t even think he has slept for more than five minutes, but he’s so utterly indispensable to the CIA that it’s amazing how often they keep trying to kill and/or discredit him.

Episode 3 of The Recruit Season 2, “H.H.I.I.T.K.A.L.”, finally makes the scale and the severity of the threat against the CIA clear. Now that it’s...

After laying the appropriate groundwork in the premiere, The Recruit Season 2 ping-pongs all over the place in Episode 2, “Y.A.R.A.C.O.T.D.O.P.”, roping just about every...

The Recruit Season 2 picks up minutes after the first season finale, which is perhaps just as well since the Noah Centineo-led thriller hasn’t lost...

Have you ever set off running too quickly and realized that you’re falling? The Recruit is like that. It lives in the space between realizing...

Episode 11, “The Sauna at the End of the Stairs”, could go either way. It isn’t like the previous episode, which just seemed to pivot to a different genre entirely, but it has a similar try-hard quality that I found off-putting.

Episode 3, “The Sequence”, rids itself of the advantage of Taylah’s charisma and energy by saddling her with Ed, as the two of them are forced on the run together.

“The Architect of Social Well-Being” widens the scope a little more to reveal more about Tarabi, provide some illuminating background on Collins’s relationship with his father, and once again deliver a game-changing last-minute twist.

Paradise already upended the entire show at the end of its premiere, so it’s no surprise that Episode 2, “Sinatra”, doesn’t have quite the same wow factor.

Dan Fogelman has a thing for flipping a premiere on its head, and the last-minute twist of Paradise is an absolute doozy.

I said in my recap of the premiere that Disney+’s K-Drama Unmasked is unusually forward about sex and violence, and if nothing else Episodes 3 and 4 prove me right.

NBC’s The Hunting Party has one of the more compelling concepts in recent memory. It’s about a top-secret subterranean prison built below a nuclear missile silo housing the deadliest serial killers humanity has ever produced, many of whom are supposed to be dead.

High Potential has always had a comedic streak, but Episode 10, “Chutes and Murders”, takes it too far. I’m not sure why.

Alarum feels like the kind of bargain bin actioner you’d pick up by chance in the halcyon days of video rentals when a couple of...

I have no idea what to make of Unmasked, which after two episodes feels like a comedy tripped and fell into a crime drama and nobody knew how to separate them.

High Potential Episode 9 also weaves the Roman subplot right through it instead of confining it to the margins, which means Morgan takes a break from investigating Marvin’s death to accompany Selena to a meeting with Gio, the elusive criminal concierge that Roman was somehow connected to.

Ad Vitam isn’t a very good movie, and its ending helps to illuminate precisely why that is. After a stellar start and then an incredibly...

Ad Vitam plays out like someone challenged director Rodolphe Lauga to make a very simple film as needlessly, off-puttingly convoluted as possible. It starts out...

Subteran avoids the easy, happy ending, which holistically is one of the bolder things about it. Netflix’s first Romanian original series is mostly content to...

Subteran is, to my knowledge, the first Romanian Netflix original series, and you know what? It’s a pretty good debut effort. It’s not perfect, obviously;...