Drama

Brilliant Minds keeps surprising me. Season 1, Episode 6, “The Girl Who Cried Pregnant”, doesn’t just offer up an interesting core case with some surprising...

Not a great deal happens in Episode 6 of The Penguin, but it’s nonetheless the hour that best exemplifies everything great about the show. Colin...

After I spent a while going on about how the previous episode’s thematic and character depth, I’m forced to backpedal slightly with Episode 6 of...

I honestly think that Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon might be the biggest surprise of 2024 for me. Just what is going...

Tulsa King took a while to get going in Season 2, but things started to heat up – quite literally – in the previous episode...

Power is a funny old thing. Sometimes it’s obvious who has it – monarchs, elected officials, CEOs, etc. – and sometimes it isn’t. A Virtuous...

Jacques Audiard directs Emilia Perez, part of Netflix’s annual awards-season slate. The genre-blending movie boasts a star-studded ensemble led by four powerful performances by Zoe...

It’s unusual for me, but I’m perfectly happy to say I have no idea what’s going on in Before. The confounding drama from Sarah Thorp,...

It’s worth noting that Episode 8 of Beauty in Black is only the ending of Part 1. There are another eight episodes to come, more...

I can’t help but feel a little bit disappointed by the ending of The Old Man Season 2. It’s very popular, so I can’t say I was...

I’ll happily admit that I can’t stand the character of Nicholas in Disclaimer. Honestly — who does he think he’s talking to? If I spoke to...

I know I give Tyler Perry a hard time, but he’s asking for it. Nobody else in entertainment delivers more execrable projects and seems so...

I’ll say this for Agatha All Along – it isn’t afraid to kill off its cast. Episode 7, “Death’s Hand In Mine”, features another heroic...

There were lots of big – nay, huge – questions coming out of the Big Twist™, chief among them how Grotesquerie was going to proceed...

There’s a case to be made that Season 1, Episode 5 of High Potential, aptly titled “Croaked”, gets a bit too complex for its own...

Season 1, Episode 5 of Murder in a Small Town, “A Touch of Panic”, feels like it’s in the wrong place. I criticized the show’s...

Shrinking consistently amazes me. Only rarely does a show come along that is so able to juggle multiple three-dimensional characters and thoughtful, interlocking plot strands; that...

I’m wondering where the ceiling of Brilliant Minds is. With each instalment I find a new high-water mark, and Season 1, Episode 5, “The Haunted...

If you’d forgotten that The Penguin was a show about villains, Episode 5, “Homecoming”, will dispel any illusions. And I’ll grant you that it’s an...

A Virtuous Business is what’s known as a low-stakes drama, but I’ve never quite liked that term. Stakes are relative, and there doesn’t need to...