Drama

Recap: ‘Romance in the House’ Episode 10 Finally Reveals The Circumstances of the Fire

September 8 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

In Episode 10, Romance in the House finally digs deeper into Moo-jin’s past while continuing to deliver solid moments in the core relationships. Just two...

Recap: ‘Romance in the House’ Episode 9 Delivers Some Strong Drama

September 7 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I had a thought while watching Episode 9 of Romance in the House – this is more like it. In the previous episode, Mi-rae and...

Recap: Seung-hyo Finally Says His Piece In ‘Love Next Door’ Episode 7

September 7 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

We’re into the back half of Love Next Door now, and I’m starting to get worried. Not about the show, of course – Episode 7...

Recap: ‘Love Next Door’ Has Its Issues, But They Don’t Matter In Episodes 5 & 6

September 7 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

There are criticisms that apply to Love Next Door that are as true of Episodes 5 & 6 as they have been of the previous...

Recap: In Episodes 7 & 8, ‘Romance in the House’ Finally Gets Romantic

September 7 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Romance in the House enters its second half with Episodes 7 and 8, thankfully focusing on the right areas – the parental relationship between Mi-rae...

Review: ‘Rebel Ridge’ Reinvents Rambo For Netflix

September 7 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Action movies have been knocking off First Blood ever since it debuted in 1982, but Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge is the rare example of a...

‘The Perfect Couple’ In Brief: Every Episode, Suspect, Victim, and Murder

September 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

A swanky wedding, a tiny island, and a murder — this is how Netflix’s The Perfect Couple begins, and it unfurls in the tense and white-knuckle...

‘The Perfect Couple’ Has A Predictable Ending, But That’s Okay

September 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

If there’s a complaint to be leveled at Netflix’s otherwise very good whodunit The Perfect Couple, it’s that the ending is a little predictable. I,...

Review: ‘The Perfect Couple’ Is A Proper Whodunit That Doesn’t Take Itself Too Seriously

September 5 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

It wouldn’t take much effort to count up the obvious influences running through the veins of The Perfect Couple, Netflix’s six-part all-star whodunit. Both Knives...

Recap: ‘Industry’ Season 3, Episode 4 Is A Disasterclass In Stress

September 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

I’d like to make it clear that I despise Rishi Ramdani and everything he stands for to a degree that causes me to physically bristle,...

‘Chastity High’ Could Re-Enroll For Season 2, With A Darker Plot

September 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The question of whether we’ll be returning to Asuran Academy in Chastity High Season 2 is a worthwhile one since Netflix is pretty famously keen on renewing...

‘Breathless’ Has More Than Enough Drama Leftover For Season 2

September 2 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Breathless Season 2 hasn’t been confirmed yet, but the evidence suggests that we haven’t seen the last of Joaquin Sorolla Hospital. Medical dramas tend to fare...

The Ending of ‘Breathless’ Leaves Room For Some Treatment Ongoing

August 31 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

As they have throughout the first seven episodes of Netflix’s Spanish medical drama Breathless, the personal and professional lives of Joaquin Sorolla Hospital’s residents intertwine...

Review: ‘Breathless’ Struggles To Reconcile Conflicting Identities

August 31 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Grey’s Anatomy and New Amsterdam and a smattering of other medical dramas have a lot to answer for. Netflix’s Breathless is an imitator from Spain...

Recap: ‘Snowpiercer’ Season 4 Ups The Stakes Considerably In Episode 7

August 31 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Snowpiercer has never had a shortage of villains. In Season 4 the Big Bad honors have vacillated between Milius and Wilford, but Episode 7, “A Moth...

‘The Serpent Queen’ Season 2 Ending Explained – A Bloody and Brilliant Climax

August 31 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The reason the Red Wedding became such a cultural phenomenon is that nobody really saw it coming. Sure, anyone who had read the books –...

The Ending of ‘Chastity High’ Interrogates Its Premise

August 31 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

The unique selling point of Chastity High, the plot wrinkle it takes its title from, is the idea that none of the students at the...

Review: ‘Chastity High’ Has A Silly Premise But Valuable Themes

August 30 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Every nation needs its own trashy high-school drama about salacious teenagers getting up to no good, and Chastity High, streaming on Netflix, is Japan throwing...

‘Kaos’ Ending Explained – The Battle Lines Are Drawn And Season 2 Is Inevitable

August 30 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Look, Kaos is a big-budget Netflix series with a very good cast, so the chances of the ending actually being an ending and not an...

Recap: ‘Kaos’ Reveals What’s Going On With the Underworld In Episode 6

August 30 2024, by Jonathon Wilson

Episode 6 is the obligatory Big Reveal™ episode of Kaos, in which we learn what’s really going on in the Underworld with the Frame and...