Mystery & Thriller

Hey, remember the Fear Street trilogy? What a surprising success that was for Netflix. At least partially a consequence of an unprecedented global health crisis...

I’ve identified a key issue in Murderbot. To be fair, I mentioned it in my recap of the two-part premiere, and nothing has changed; it’s just twice as noticeable because Episode 3 is obviously half as long.

I’m one of those insufferable fans of The Last of Us Part II who thinks it’s a work of towering genius, and I’ve done nothing throughout these recaps but moan about all the ways in which Season 2 of the HBO adaptation has made changes to it.

Good news, those few remaining viewers who consume The Walking Dead: Dead City out of choice instead of professional obligation -- Episode 3 isn't quite as stupid as the previous installment was.

Murderbot is a comedy, first and foremost, and one of its key jokes is how little murder is in it, given the title.

Blackjack! Murder! Revenge! All the elements you’d expect from Bet’s ending are present and correct in Episode 10, “Winner Takes All”, as well as the...

Netflix’s Bet (2025) is a live-action adaptation of an anime, itself transplanted from a manga, and at this point, I should probably mention that I...

Netflix’s often stellar sci-fi/fantasy anthology series Love, Death + Robots returns for Season 4 with another clutch of episodes, each highlighting a different style of...

Anthologies are always a mixed bag by definition, but Tim Miller and David Fincher’s Love, Death + Robots has remained remarkably consistent throughout its first three seasons...

It was always going to be difficult to adapt The Last of Us Part II, which is a game that relies on the fundamental expectations of video games as a medium to tell a pretty complex story about grief, revenge, and various other attendant matters, none of them particularly positive.

I've never been on board with the idea of hate-watching something. It seems like a waste of time to me.

I have no idea what Tin Soldier is, where it came from, how it was released, or who thought it’d be a good idea. Only...

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...

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...

Conceptually, The Walking Dead: Dead City was supposed to capitalize on the unresolved and oddly sexually charged relationship between Maggie and Negan.

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.

Straightforward European action movies are ten-a-penny on Netflix – we had, say, Ad Vitam recently, but it’s rubbish, so don’t think about it too much...

There's usually a calm before a storm, but The Last of Us Season 2 provided enough storm in its previous outing that everyone spends Episode 3 reeling from it.

Gareth Evans is a bona fide legend already, since the guy who made The Raid: Redemption deserves to live in eternal infamy as an action...

Is the fight over, or is it just beginning? This, I suppose, is the key question raised by the ending of Weak Hero Class 2,...