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‘Servant’ Season 4 Episode 2 Recap – How Will Dorothy Protect Herself from Leanne?
Season 4, Episode 1 seemed to pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with a plague of pigeons descending upon the Turner’s neighborhood. In Episode...
‘Truth Be Told’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap – Why Has Drea Spivey Gone Missing?
Only Murders in the Building may be the most popular mystery series out there about podcasters solving crimes, but Apple TV+ has its own equivalent...
‘That ’90s Show’ Season 1 Review – Successfully Revamping a Beloved Series
Nostalgia is a surefire way to bring flocks of fans back. When That’90s Show released the cast list, hype ensued, with the memories of That...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 12 Recap – “Whispering Woman” / “Soichi’s Beloved Pet”
“Whispering Woman” is adapted from the eighth chapter of Ma No Kakera, and treads unusual territory by being rooted in friendship and a positive bond,...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 11 Recap – “Alley” / “Headless Statue”
“Alley”, essentially a murder mystery with a supernatural slant, is adapted from Back Alley, the fifth chapter of The Bully from Horror World of Junji Ito. For Ito...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – “Unendurable Labyrinth” / “The Bully”
This double-bill episode collects, I think, the weirdest pair of stories in Junji Ito Maniac, not in terms of their actual content but in how...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – “Tomie – Photo”
Tomie is one of Junji Ito’s most iconic characters. She got an entire volume devoted to her in Horror World of Junji Ito and her...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap – “Layers of Terror” / “The Thing That Drifted Ashore”
Oh goodness, this is a weird one. There’s a case to be made that this is the most horrifying and imaginative episode of Junji Ito Maniac thus...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – “Tomb Town”
Junji Ito Maniac abandons the dual-story structure in its seventh episode to instead deliver a more comprehensive and focused adaptation of Street of Gravestones (or...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – “Mold” / “Library Vision”
“Mold”, a story adapted from the seventh volume of Horror World of Junji Ito, Slug Girl, is another creeping tale of rapidly-worsening circumstances that revolves heavily...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – “Intruder” / “Long Hair in the Attic”
“Intruder”, taken from the ninth volume of Horror World of Junji Ito, Hallucinations, has a clever concept that is horrifying in a low-key, imaginative way, and...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – “Hanging Balloon”
The third episode of Junji Ito Maniac is my favorite so far, a hauntingly horrible bit of work adapted from the fourth volume of Horror World of...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – “The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel” / “Ice Cream Bus”
The second episode of Junji Ito Maniac is the first of the anthology’s two-parters. “The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel” is the title story in...
‘Junji Ito Maniac’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap – “The Strange Hikizuri Siblings”
The first episode of the Netflix anthology Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre adapts a single story from The Circus is Here, the fifth...
‘Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre’ Review – A Mixed-Bag Anime Anthology
Some horror creators have a knack for imagery and concepts that make the average viewer worry for their sanity. How often, for instance, have you...
‘Bungo Stray Dogs’ Season 4, Episode 3 Recap – “Secrets of the Founding of the Detective Agency”
Bungo Stray Dogs Season 4 Episode 2 left viewers with a lot to think about, especially after ending the episode on a major cliffhanger. Just...
‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – Who Wins the Riot Race?
“Faster” is, essentially, a standalone episode of The Bad Batch. Echo and Hunter aren’t even in it. It has no bearing on the wider overarching...
‘Trolley’ Season 1, Episode 10 Recap – What Happens When Hye-joo’s Story Breaks?
With a massively impactful finish, Trolley Episode 10 did an excellent job of building to its climax. There aren’t many questions left lingering, unlike in other installments,...
‘Trolley’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap – What Makes Gwi-soon Upset?
A far more subtle installment, Trolley Episode 9 gives us plenty of revelations yet places them strategically throughout the episode, instead of throwing in a major...
‘Decision to Leave’ Ending Explained and the Film’s Meaning
Yes, the premise of Decision to Leave is nothing new. A man meets a woman, a woman meets a man, and guess what? Love hurts....