Drama
‘Cobra Kai’ Season 6 Part 3 Ending Explained – As Perfect An Ending As We Could Have Hoped For
Ending a show is no easy feat, and ending a beloved, long-running show is harder still. It brings me enormous pleasure to report, then, that Cobra...
‘Cobra Kai’ Season 6, Episode 14 Recap – The Finals Turn Explosive (Literally)
The final episodes of Cobra Kai Season 6 have been surprisingly light on karate, but Episode 14, "Strike Last", makes up for that tenfold with not one but two bouts to determine the male and female champions of the Sekai Taikai.
‘Cobra Kai’ Season 6, Episode 13 Recap – William Zabka Absolutely Steals the Show
It was always a double-edged sword bringing the original cast of The Karate Kid back for Cobra Kai. Sure, it makes a lot of sense, but these weren't exactly award-winners at the time, and you can't say their careers took off wildly between the late '80s and the show's debut in 2018.
‘Cobra Kai’ Season 6, Episode 12 Recap – It’s All Coming Full Circle
Everything's coming full circle in Cobra Kai Season 6. The Sekai Taikai is coming to the Valley.
‘Cobra Kai’ Season 6, Episode 11 Recap – The Morning After The Night Before
Things are getting serious in Cobra Kai, or at least as serious as they ever get. Season 6 is, lest we forget, the show’s swansong, and...
‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Episodes 6, 7, & 8 Recap – Things Are Starting to Go Badly for Peter
The classic line that has always summed up Peter Parker’s life is reworked in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, but Episodes 6, 7, and 8 nonetheless...
‘High Potential’ Season 1 Ending Explained – It Doesn’t Take Morgan’s IQ to Detect A Second Season On the Way
The fact that High Potential has already been renewed for Season 2 informs the ending of Season 1, Episode 13, “Let’s Play”, which is quite...
‘Prime Target’ Episode 5 Recap – Who’d Have Thought A Show About Math Could Be This Dumb?
If nothing else, Prime Target has a sense of irony about it. The Apple TV+ "thriller" has been dumb from the beginning, but it is perhaps the most stupid in Episode 5, "House of Wisdom", which is the closest Season 1 has come to a joke.
‘The Hunting Party’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – Formula Is Already Beginning to Creep In
Is anybody there? Has the gap between the decent premiere of The Hunting Party and Episode 2, “Clayton Jessup”, been so needlessly big that everybody has forgotten this show exists?
How the Ending of ‘The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep’ Messes Up the Source Material
Netflix’s animated spin-off The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is based on one of Andrzej Sapkowski’s most beloved short stories, “A Little Sacrifice”, from the...
‘The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep’ Review – Serviceable Spin-Off Proves Netflix Don’t Witcher Have a Clue
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is mostly fine, from a casual point of view, but it also serves as a reminder that Netflix don’t...
Paradise Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – Another Major Twist Caps Off A Solemn But Brilliant Outing
The title of Paradise Episode 5 is taken from a line in Darkness, the hauntingly beautiful Lord Byron poem that bookends this solemn chapter of what is becoming the best TV show of a still-young year.
‘When the Stars Gossip’ Episode 12 Recap – It’s Just Impossible to Care at This Point
Given I’m professionally obligated to persist with shows long beyond their expiration dates, it isn’t a new feeling to be almost resentful of the time I spend with When the Stars Gossip.
‘When the Stars Gossip’ Episode 11 Recap – How Are There Still Five Episodes of This Show Left?
Remarkably, as of Episode 11, there are still five episodes of When the Stars Gossip remaining. What on earth are they going to be about?
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – A Team-Building Exercise Leads to a Big Reveal
“Woe’s Hollow” is a surprisingly horror-tinged masterclass of a Severance episode, and the best of Season 2 thus far by a margin.
‘Unmasked’ Episode 7 & 8 Recap – Good Character Work Still Can’t Quite Make Things Cohere
Unmasked continues to be a confounding show in Episodes 7 & 8, and it remains difficult to know what to make of it
‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Episodes 3, 4, & 5 Recap – Hey, This Is Pretty Damn Good
It was obvious from the double-bill premiere that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man was a pretty good show, but Episodes 3, 4, & 5 really make it clear.
‘Sweet Magnolias’ Season 4 Review – A Rollercoaster of Faith, Love, and Drama
I admit that I was apprehensive before watching Season 4 of Sweet Magnolias. I loved seasons 1 and 2 but wasn’t amazed by Season 3....
‘High Potential’ Season 1, Episode 12 Recap – Meaningful Character Development Improves a Mundane Mystery
Episode 12, “Partners”, proves that the show is much more interesting when it’s using that as a starting point for meaningful character development.
‘Prime Target’ Episode 4 Recap – This Show About Clever People Thinks You’re Stupid
With a remarkable lack of self-awareness, Apple TV+’s impressively boring thriller Prime Target bases Episode 4, “Kaplar”, around a twist so laughably obvious that when it was eventually deployed as a last-minute cliffhanger, I laughed out loud.