Crime
Feedback Season 1 Review – Gripping Polish thriller explores alcoholism and memory
The morning after the night before. We’ve all been there, trying to put the pieces together after a heavy night on the booze. What did...
How to Become a Mob Boss Season 1 Review – A generic docuseries reuses universally-known information
In How to Become a Mob Boss, we go through the motions of becoming an actual crime lord by exploring each crime boss who became successful. They...
‘Criminal Code’ Season 1 Review – Brazilian Netflix Procedural Gets Too Bogged Down in the Details
Law enforcement is an incredibly complex thing. It can’t be easy to take down a criminal syndicate, investigate robberies in at least two countries, and...
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 Episodes 11 & 12 Recap – Things are starting to get real
In its latest pair of episodes, Strong Girl Nam-soon is well-served by a bit more seriousness and drama. In many ways, the overarching Season 1...
Culprits Season 1 Ending Explained – What happens to Vincent’s money?
The ending of Culprits Season 1 is, in a word, weird. Odd. Unusual. Perhaps unconventional is the most fitting description, since little about it proceeds...
Culprits Season 1 Episode 7 Recap – The victim of the robbery is finally revealed
The penultimate episode of Culprits asks more questions than it answers. It’s a much slower – and, for that matter, lesser – outing than Episode...
Culprits Season 1 Episode 6 Recap – The Devil is in the details
“Vessels” technically starts with a cold open in which we see what really happened between Officer and Devil in Paris, but don’t worry about that...
Culprits Season 1 Episode 5 Recap – The nastiest outing thus far claims a key character
“Let Us Sit Bent, and Talk Straight” is a nasty, mean-spirited episode of Culprits that really raises the stakes heading into the back half of...
The Killer Review – A delightfully disturbing thriller from David Fincher
David Fincher is known for meticulously plotted thrillers beaming with amoral characters audiences are never sure how to feel about. His most recent endeavor is...
Bosch: Legacy Season 2 Ending Explained – Who killed Lexi Parks?
The ending of Bosch: Legacy Season 2 closes off many plot threads but, naturally, leaves things open for the third season. The killer of Lexi Parks is revealed, Bosch...
Bosch: Legacy Season 2 Episode 9 Recap – “Escape Plan” reveals a big twist
In the penultimate episode of Bosch: Legacy Season 2, the FBI has Chandler in custody, and they hope to use her to flip against Harry...
Culprits Season 1 Episode 4 Recap – Better the Devil you know
Maybe it’s just me, but I wasn’t as enamored with Episode 4 of Culprits as I have been with Season 1’s first three installments. It’s hard...
Culprits Season 1 Episode 3 Recap – Take me back to London
It’s probably safe to say at this point that the heist didn’t go especially well. Just like in Episode 2, the third episode of Culprits Season 1,...
Culprits Season 1 Episode 2 Recap – Higher stakes and clearer targets
“Angler Fish” is about fear, in many ways, not all of them obvious. Sure, the sentiment comes through most bluntly when the title itself is...
Culprits Season 1 Episode 1 Recap – A stately premiere lays the blueprint for a big heist
There was before, and then there’s after. This is the narrative framing conceit employed by Culprits Season 1, with Episode 1, “Change of Use”, being divided...
Culprits Season 1 Review – Hulu heist thriller sticks to the plan and makes off with the loot
Culprits is a suspiciously undermarketed heist thriller streaming on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ everywhere else, and like the best cons, it seems to...
Strong Girl Nam-soon Season 1 Episodes 9 & 10 Recap – Shi-o’s past is revealed
In Episodes 9 & 10, Strong Girl Nam-soon continues to develop its characters into richer components of a wide-ranging narrative. At this point it’s a...
Ferry: The Series Review – It’s time to admit that we like Ferry Bouman despite being a shoddy villain
Ferry: The Series may take advantage of a character that has no right to be popular, but Netflix deciding to take advantage of Undercover and...
Bosch: Legacy Season 2 Episode 8 Recap – Who dies in “Seventy-Four Degrees in Belize”?
The FBI’s case against Harry and Chandler begins to get stronger and stronger in Episode 8 of Bosch: Legacy Season 2. As that happens, a...
Bosch: Legacy Season 2 Episode 7 Recap – Who planted the bug on Harry’s jeep?
Harry is starting to put the pieces together about who is behind the Lexi Parks murder on Episode 7 of the Prime Freevee series Bosch:...