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Review: Outer Range Season 2 Is Boring Nonsense
Outer Range has one of the best elevator pitches in the business. What if Yellowstone, but it’s a bit like Lost? Genius! And while Season...
‘Dark Matter’ Episode 3 Slows To A Crawl
Dark Matter was better when it was bonkers. I think that’s fair to say after Episode 3, “The Box”, which settles down to a glacial pace...
Dark Matter’s Premiere Is Too Familiar For Its Own Good
These days, the word “multiverse” is pretty inexorably tied to Marvel, since we’re all simpletons. But Dark Matter on Apple TV+ hopes to fix that...
The General Has A Plan in The Sympathizer Episode 5
The Captain’s adventures in moviemaking in Episode 4 of The Sympathizer were, in a word, unsuccessful. But the deviation into outright parody was a somewhat...
The Captain Makes A Movie In The Sympathizer Episode 4
I imagine when The Captain left Vietnam, he didn’t imagine he’d find himself on a movie set. And yet that’s where he ends up in...
The Sympathizer Episode 3 Makes A Mess Of Murder
It’s no secret that Robert Downey Jr. has been a key selling point of The Sympathizer, and for those who tuned in specifically for his...
‘Bodkin’ Season 2 Needs A New Mystery, But Not New Characters
You can’t solve a mystery twice, which is the primary obstacle standing in the way of Bodkin Season 2. The first season’s ending seemed to tie up...
Episode 4 of ‘The Atypical Family’ Is One Of The Best In The Series
If nobody knew quite what to make of The Atypical Family throughout its first three episodes, I imagine Episode 4 is where undecided viewers will...
The Atypical Family Episode 3 Still Felt Like Something Was Missing
Nobody I’ve spoken to about The Atypical Family knows whether or not they like it. I doubt Episode 3 will help them decide either way....
Mother of the Bride Enjoyed Beautiful Shooting Locations
If Mother of the Bride has something going for it — and based on our review there are very few things about it worth recommending — it’s...
‘Mother of the Bride’ Review: Lackluster Rom-Com or Money Laundering Scheme?
Mother of the Bride could have at least tried to make an effort. I know Netflix needed a branded movie title for America’s Mother’s Day, but...
The Ending Of ‘Bodkin’ Brings Things Full Circle
The ending of Bodkin ties multiple plot threads together in a mystery spanning back two and a half decades, so there’s a lot to unpack...
Netflix’s ‘Bodkin’ Could Only Have Been Filmed In Ireland
Netflix’s dark comedy thriller Bodkin is set in a fictional coastal town in West Cork, Ireland, and the Emerald Isle is integral to the show’s...
Thank You, Next Ending Explained – Does Leyla End Up With Cem or Ömer?
While it’s a sad ending to Season 1, you can almost see what will happen in Episode 8 of Thank You, Next. While it was titled...
‘Thank You, Next’ Review: Navigating Messy Romances and Modern Relationships
It’s hard to work out what Thank You, Next is aiming for apart from the obvious: it’s a messy romance story that never seems to...
‘Bodkin’ Review: A Darkly Comic Take On Our True-Crime Obsession
These days having a true-crime podcast is the best career move you can make. If it’s popular, there’s a streaming series in your future. And...
‘A Man in Full’ Can’t Be Separated From Its Atlanta Setting
A Man in Full is an adaptation of the classic Tom Wolfe novel, a bleakly comedic corporate character study about Charlie Croker, a former Georgia...
The Atypical Family Gets Off To A Mixed Start in Episode 1 & 2
Everyone has superpowers these days, don’t they? It’s pretty played out as a hook to hang a TV show on, but The Atypical Family takes...
‘The Idea of You’ Ending Approaches The Age Gap Problem Wrong
The ending of The Idea of You is somewhat predictable as Hayes Campbell spells it out before it arrives. “I’ll see you in five years,”...
How Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine Capture Our Hearts in ‘The Idea of You’
I assume The Idea of You is dubbed a “contemporary love story” due to its on-theme perspective of age-gap relationships, which is always the topic...