Drama

In its first season, Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters made a surprisingly great case for itself as one of the better small-screen franchise tie-ins. And Season 2, despite a break lasting over two years, seems determined to live up to that reputation in Episode 1.

The Pitt always causes me some degree of anxiety, and Season 2 has taken great pleasure in doing that so far. But I must confess to being unusually susceptible to Episode 8, since "2:00 P.M." marks the start of an analogue stint that might last up to 24 hours.

The Hunting Party Season 2 is back after a little hiatus, and it’s back guest-starring Kelsey Grammer, which has to count for something. After all, who...

Evidently not finished with cameos from the broader franchise, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy provides another one in Episode 8, “The Life of the Stars”. But...

I’m always surprised when the latest episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy turns out to be an hour long. I’m not sure why, since they’re...

Whoah now, folks. I personally thought that The Beauty was finished with all of its body-horror transformations, and more to the point, I also figured it was...

Byron Forst is a bad guy in the most simplistic possible way, a greedy fatcat billionaire who is cruel to everyone and interested only in...

After arguably wasting an episode on backstory nobody needed, The Beauty had to bounce back in Episode 7. And it does. “Beautiful Living Rooms” initially...

I’m ordinarily the first person to forgive a good action movie for all kinds of sins, just so long as it delivers where it counts....

Cross Season 2 made a bit of a misstep recently, making its villain look a bit doltish by falling in love with a dude she’d...

I love Shrinking more than just about anyone, but I think it’s fair to say that Season 3 was threatening to fall into a bit of a...

There’s a slight “too little too late” quality to the tail end of Hijack Season 2 — I think we can all agree that this probably didn’t...

It’s fair to say that Memory of a Killer hasn’t been in a rush to get anywhere, but that changes in Episode 5. “Betrayal” shouldn’t...

‘The first season of Paradise was one of 2025’s best shows, mostly without any warning. Its premiere revealed a gotcha premise that was kept well...

Rounding out the triumvirate of Paradise Season 2 premiere episodes, “Another Day in Paradise” is the most like what we’ve come to expect from the show after the first season.

As brilliant as the premiere of Paradise Season 2 was, it’s pretty fair to say that it didn’t really pick up on any of the plot threads left dangling by the first season finale.

If you remember anything about the first season of Paradise, what springs to mind is probably the brilliant fake-out premiere that revealed what seemed like a fairly standard murder-mystery to really be a post-apocalyptic political thriller of an extremely distinguished vintage.

Industry Season 4 is now proceeding with such full-throttle end-of-run HBO primetime confidence that every hour is a new delight, often in a different way...

George R. R. Martin himself has said that the death of Baelor Targaryen is one of the most significant moments in Westerosi history, one of...

I should like the ending of Vanished. “Run, Alice, Run” addresses one of my key issues with the series overall, which has been Alice’s phenomenal...