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‘Peacemaker’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – Best. Dimension. Ever.
The more it goes on, the more it seems like Peacemaker Season 2 is pretty specifically about Chris Smith’s relationship with Emilia Harcourt.
‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Ending Explained – A Fitting Climax With No Surprises
Anyone expecting any major surprises from the ending of Dexter: Resurrection is likely to leave “And Justice For All…” a little disappointed. But, based on that title...
‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Part 2 Review – A Convoluted Back Half Still Delivers Where It Counts
Wednesday is about werewolves and zombies and death; about Gorgons and Sirens and mad scientists. But it’s mostly about friendship and family, especially in Part...
‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Part 2 Ending Explained – Until Next Time, Nevermore
Wednesday is pretty good at endings. It’s the done thing these days to never really end a show, but this one has always been good at...
‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap – An Addams Family Party
Wednesday Season 2 peaked with its Freaky Friday body-swap episode, so it was inevitable that Episode 7, "Woe Me the Money", would feel like a bit of a step down.
‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – A Freaky Friday Send-Up (With Added Lady Gaga)
The lingering questions of what Wednesday was doing with its Season 2 storylines after that midseason premiere are answered pretty much immediately in Episode 6, so don't worry about it.
‘Wednesday’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap – Day of the Dead Festivities
There are two major selling points of "Hyde and Woe Seek", beyond the obvious fact that it's the Part 2 premiere and follows on directly from the Part 1 mid-season finale.
‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’ Episode 4 Recap – Anything For A Good Story
The truth is a fluid thing, wriggly and uncertain. It’s time-sensitive, open to interpretation, and matters less than the story it’s wrapped in. When you...
‘The Rainmaker’ Episode 3 Recap – This Relationship Isn’t Going to Last
The Rainmaker has been a pretty good adaptation so far, different enough from the 1997 film to justify its existence but not so out-there as to feel like a different story entirely.
‘Peacemaker’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – This Show Is Very Funny, But Also Deeply Sad
For a comic book show, Peacemaker is becoming surprisingly character-driven in Season 2, and for such a funny comedy, it’s also deeply sad at its core.
‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Episode 9 Recap – It Finally Happened, But How Do We Feel?
Living a lie is a difficult thing to do, especially when you're living several at once, but this is precisely the predicament that Dexter has found himself in all throughout Dexter: Resurrection.
‘The Thursday Murder Club’ Ending Explained – How Multiple Cases and Killers Connect
There’s quite a lot bundled up in the ending of The Thursday Murder Club. Not one whodunit but technically two, there aren’t just a couple...
‘The Thursday Murder Club’ Review – Netflix’s All-Star Adaptation Works Well
Every now and again, a story – it could be a book, a TV show, a movie, whatever – is popular enough to redefine a...
‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’ Episode 3 Recap – Foxy Knoxy, Come On Down
Episode 3 of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox begins by doing something that neither of the first two did, which is to attempt to characterise Giuliano Mignini.
‘The Rainmaker’ Episode 2 Recap – Cards On the Table
The battle lines are being drawn in Episode 2 of The Rainmaker. Sure, you can make the case that they were already drawn in the premiere, but it’s nice to see everyone’s cards out on the table.
‘Peacemaker’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – Two For The Price Of One
Peacemaker is back for Season 2, and not just back, but back into a new DC Universe.
‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Episode 8 Recap – Dexter’s Impulses Almost Get Him In Big Trouble
Dexter Morgan kills bad guys. He’s pretty particular about it, so it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking about Dex as if he’s a good guy.
‘Rivers of Fate’ Ending Explained – As Happy A Climax As A Show Like This Gets
It’s hard for a show like Rivers of Fate, which largely traffics in outright misery, to have anything even resembling a happy ending. But these...
‘Rivers of Fate’ Review – An Unflinchingly Awful, Draining Crime Drama
Rivers of Fate seems sprung to life as a dare, almost as if directors Fernando and Quico Meirelles were trying to win a bet about...
‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’ Episode 2 Recap – A Wildly Effective, Disorienting Hour
One suspects that Episode 2 is the showpiece hour of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.