Drama
‘Bad Influence’ Ending Explained – Netflix’s Teen Romance Goes Completely Off the Rails
I know what you’re thinking – a teen romance about two radically different but implausibly attractive people has to have a happy ending, right? The...
‘Bad Influence’ Review – Netflix’s Spanish Teen Erotica Hits The Usual Notes
There’s a very simple and obvious formula for a movie like Bad Influence, which shouldn’t be confused with Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, a...
‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Episode 6 Recap – Hope Is The Most Dangerous Thing Of All
If we're being frank, Your Friends & Neighbors hasn't been an especially contemplative show, which is perhaps why Episode 6 is such a standout installment.
‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Episode 5 Recap – And We’re Finally Back at the Beginning
It has taken Your Friends & Neighbors five weeks to circle back to the brutal crime scene it began with, but Episode 5 finally gets us there with a little more context.
‘The Studio’ Episode 8 Recap – Matt’s Ego Takes Another Heavy Hit
The Studio is a show about Hollywood that clearly enjoys an impressive amount of access to its stars and executives, but it has rarely felt quite as insider-y as it does in Episode 8, aptly titled “The Golden Globes”.
‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 2 Premiere Recap – A Man and His Bat
Conceptually, The Walking Dead: Dead City was supposed to capitalize on the unresolved and oddly sexually charged relationship between Maggie and Negan.
‘Heavenly Ever After’ Episodes 5 & 6 Recap – To Hell and Back Again
I do wonder if Heavenly Ever After might be too mawkish for its own good. I continue to enjoy the K-Drama, don’t get me wrong, but in Episodes 5 & 6, I began to drift a little.
‘MobLand’ Episode 6 Recap – The Harrigans Are Historically and Now Internationally Awful
After MobLand revealed that we’d been following the bad guys all along, Episode 6 completely doubles down on the idea, as well as taking the Harrigans’ nonsense international (hence the title, “Antwerp Blues”).
‘The Last of Us’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – Introducing Bonkers Bad Guy Jeffrey Wright
The Last of Us, as a game and a TV show, is bleak to an extent that borders on parodical, like a social experiment designed to psychologically break huge swathes of people with their so-called entertainment.
‘Happy Face’ Ending Explained – A Satisfying Finale Can’t Resist A Last-Minute Tease
A cliffhanger ending really doesn’t suit Happy Face, and I spent most of Episode 8, “The Star”, believing that it wasn’t going to get one....
‘The Eternaut’ Ending Explained – A Vague Climax Provides Few Meaningful Answers
I’m not sure what I was expecting from the ending of The Eternaut, but it probably wasn’t what we got. The Netflix series entered Episode 6...
‘The Eternaut’ Episode 5 Recap – Temporary Refuge Reveals Surprising New Ideas
Just when you thought you had things a little figured out, The Eternaut throws you for another loop. The previous episode revealed that bug-like aliens were invading.
‘The Eternaut’ Episode 4 Recap – A Pest Control Problem Emerges
Just in case you were wondering what the creature we glimpsed at the end of the previous episode was, we now have an answer.
‘The Eternaut’ Episode 3 Recap – A Widening Scope Offers A Glimpse Of A Bigger Threat
Episode 3 of The Eternaut, "Magnetism", is about widening the show's scope geographically and in terms of its mythology.
‘The Eternaut’ Review – A Slow-Burn Apocalyptic Drama That Requires Patience
There must be something compelling about the end of the world, since nothing seems more popular in our entertainment these days than the brutal post-apocalypse....
‘The Eternaut’ Episode 2 Recap – The Intensity Builds Significantly
If the first episode of The Eternaut was about the slow, creeping paranoia of questions without answers, Episode 2 is about how that paranoia spills out into violence and chaos at a moment's notice.
‘The Eternaut’ Episode 1 Recap – A Deadly Winter Wonderland Builds Mystery
People are always calling me a killjoy for disliking snow, but I’d like to point my detractors to The Eternaut. In this Argentinian Netflix series, the...
‘Good American Family’ Ending Explained – There Are Many Kinds Of Justice
If you’re looking for justice, especially the typical TV version of the concept, you’re not going to get it from the finale of Good American Family....
‘The Studio’ Episode 7 Recap – The Kool-Aid Racism Conundrum
Is the Kool-Aid Man a Black dude? This is the question at the core of The Studio Episode 7, and it's a funny one to ask, since it raises the impossibly circuitous minefield of contemporary identity politics.
‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Episode 4 Recap – An Unlikely Alliance Leads to Even More Danger
All good criminals need a partner in crime, and it looks like Coop has found his in Episode 4 of Your Friends and Neighbors. But having an accomplice doesn’t seem to be doing him any favours.