Drama

I know someone who has had to grieve the loss of a romantic loved one too early in life, so I was quick to sympathize...

In case you didn’t know, as the series does not exactly tell you from Episode 1, Trying Season 4 is set six years later, with...

Episode 4 of Dark Matter is emblematic of everything I really don’t like about this show. There’s so much potential here, and “The Corridor” shows...

If Episode 6 of The Sympathizer has a point, it’s that being a spy is a lot of work. The logistics are a nightmare. Once...

Mean-spirited, juvenile satirical thriller The 8 Show is another slice of reality show weirdness to feel oddly realistic and plausible, despite its occasional lurch into...

There are several levels on which The Atypical Family doesn’t work. It’s an oddly structured and paced show that sometimes seems to be making things...

Families are trouble at the best of time, but the Boks are a nightmare. The Atypical Family is weirdly titled, really, since superpowers notwithstanding, they’re...

Maestro in Blue has found an audience, with two seasons of the show already out and Season 3 incoming later this year. With a musical...

Maestro in Blue follows a somewhat conflicted musician, Orestis, who arrives on the island of Paxos in Greece for a music festival. The sun-drenched Netflix...

Nasty game shows have always had a place in film and TV, and The 8 Show is another offering that features eight poor saps, trapped...

The obvious question to ask about the ending of a series like The 8 Show, which is based around a bizarre reality TV competition that...

Whenever I write about a K-Drama, I typically avoid played-out comparisons to Squid Game, which seems to be the only Korean show Western critics have...

After two seasons, Outer Range has been canceled at Prime Video, nixing any possible plans for Season 3. After the ending of Season 2, there was...

Outer Range interestingly mixes genres, combining the tropes of traditional Western serials with high-concept science fiction. But one of the pivotal aspects of the show...

Netflix’s quirky Irish crime caper Bodkin has a podcast mystery at its heart, an ensemble cast of off-the-wall characters, thrills, chills, dark comedy surprises, and...

Well, it’s not surprising that the halfway point of Bridgerton Season 3 ended on a banger. This is quite normal for this series. The same...

What I love about Bridgerton is how quickly things can escalate. In a world where the characters suppress their feelings, once something burns inside them,...

Gentle reader, the premise is set: and similarly to Season 1, with the duke and duchess playing a strange game, Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton...

Dear gentle reader, it’s Penelope Featherington’s time. After Eloise Bridgerton finds out that Pen is indeed Lady Whistledown, who would have expected the secret journalist...

For such a deliberately complex series, the ending of Outer Range Season 2 is simple enough. In fact, Episode 7 could be described – uncharitably,...