Drama
‘The Testaments’ Episode 2 Recap – Loose Lips Sink Ships
If you squint a bit, The Testaments at least resembles a YA drama, a coming-of-age tale about a teenager navigating the perils of adolescence. It’s not, obviously...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 1 Recap – Welcome Back to Gilead
Dystopias don’t tend to be colourful, but colour is at the very core of Hulu’s The Testaments. You see it everywhere in Episode 1, “Precious Flowers”,...
‘Imperfect Women’ Episode 5 Recap – And Another Suspect Emerges
The upside of a show in which none of the characters are likeable is that there is no shortage of people who might want to...
‘Shrinking’ Season 3 Ending Explained – They Should Just Leave It Here
I have many thoughts about the finale of Shrinking Season 3, some of them not altogether positive, so let me be clear right out of the gate...
‘Memory of a Killer’ Ending Explained – Angelo Has Some Explaining To Do
“Exposed” is a fairly apt title for the ending of Memory of a Killer’s first season run, since it applies to Angelo and his nemesis,...
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap – A Touching, Funny Homage
The Comeback is about, among other things, how times change, and a function of the changing times is leaving not only things – trends, ideas,...
‘Watson’ Season 2, Episode 16 Recap – This Is Now Dumber Than Ever
Last week, Watson delivered its biggest, dumbest twist of Season 2 thus far, revealing that Sherlock Holmes has been a figment of John Watson’s imagination...
‘Marshals’ Episode 6 Recap – Kayce Is Beginning to Move On
I entered Episode 6 of Marshals mostly wondering how it was going to function as the first climax of a two-part arc. If you recall,...
‘DTF St. Louis’ Episode 6 Recap – With Friends Like These…
In many ways, “The Denny’s Plan” is the weakest episode of DTF St. Louis thus far. That sounds like more of a criticism than it’s intended to...
‘Girl from Nowhere: The Reset’ Episode 5 Recap – Just What Are We Doing Here?
On a serious note, what, exactly, are we even doing here? Girl from Nowhere used to be a show with a point, a dark, horror-adjacent social issues thriller about an avenging angel righting the wrongs of the student body's most deplorable bullies and scumbags.
‘Sheriff Country’ Episode 13 Recap – Welcome to Crossover Country
As if it wasn’t already impossible not to compare Boston Blue and Sheriff Country – a comparison which virtually never flatters the former – it’s even less so now, since Episode 13 of both shows goes out of its way to remind us of the connections to a wider TV universe.
‘Boston Blue’ Episode 13 Recap – Now There’s A Familiar Face
I’ve said this before, but it’s easy to forget sometimes that Boston Blue is a Blue Bloods spin-off, and some of the ways in which it endeavours to remind you aren’t always the smoothest.
‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Season 2, Episode 1 Recap – New Faces, Old Problems
Your Friends & Neighbors returns for Season 2 with a reassuring premiere, since most of Episode 1, “We’re Here Until We’re Not”, is a reminder that no matter how much things have changed on the surface, they’re still going to remain more or less the same.
‘The Hunting Party’ Season 2, Episode 8 Recap – These Shoe Trends Are Getting Out Of Hand
The Hunting Party has always had a penchant for coming up with creepy villains, but even by the usual standards, "Elliot Carr" is a nutter.
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 13 Recap – Changing of the Guard
The Pitt's Season 2 shift is, technically, already over. It ended last week for the few members of the cast smart enough to commit to walking out of PTMC for the good of their own mental health, but everyone else lingers behind in Episode 13.
‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap – A Tale of Two Hotels
I don't typically do this, but allow me to share with you Apple TV+'s official logline for Episode 7 of The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2.
‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap – Oops, Wrong Number
Just in case you were worried that Monarch: Legacy of Monsters might not commit to Hiroshi's death, fear not -- he's very much dead. You can't escape the spectre of his loss in the opening scenes of "Requiem", and it's clearly going to be an event that informs the rest of Season 2 going forward.
‘Humint’ Is A Shallow Korean Spy Thriller Elevated By Exciting Action
Most action movies treat their plot as a conveyor belt for fight scenes and their characters like crash test dummies, so on that level, at...
‘Imperfect Women’ Episode 4 Recap – A Welcome Change Of Perspective
Imperfect Women has very much been about Nancy since the beginning, which has made it a little awkward that she was killed off in the...
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – Now We’re Talking
If “Shoot the Moon” was a deliberately slower-paced episode of Daredevil: Born Again, Episode 3, “The Scales & the Sword”, is the payoff for sitting...