Mystery & Thriller

The unexpected return of a familiar face is the gotcha moment of “Speak of the Devil”, but until then Episode 2 feels a little too glossy to be engaging.

What is Lumon up to? This is the question that powers a lot of Severance, and rightly so, since the mega-corp is central to everything despite their motives always seeming elusive.

I’ve been thinking about Persuader a lot. That’s the book that Reacher Season 3 is based on, the seventh in Lee Child’s series and one that nobody really talks about.

This is a big statement, but Episode 7 of Paradise is probably going to end up being the best hour of television of 2025.

I could still use more of The Pit, as a setting and a concept, but I think we're getting there to a certain extent, and in the meantime, there's enough interesting stuff going on to hold the audience's attention.

Watson isn’t doing itself any favors by titling Episode 3 “Wait for the Punchline”, since it gives smug critics like me too many openings to be all like, “Still waiting!”.

With the introductions out of the way, “Special Treatments” is another quintessential episode of The White Lotus.

If I asked you what Yellowjackets is about, what would you say? For most shows, it’d be an easy question to answer, but for this one, I’m not so sure.

Despite a three-year gap between seasons after having left things on a pretty significant finale, the main takeaway from Surface’s second season premiere is that it still doesn’t seem in much of a hurry to get where it’s going.

In Episode 6 of Severance Season 2, Gretchen technically cheats on Dylan with Dylan, but it’s impossible to tell whether this is a morally justifiable action because they’re both technically the same person.

The first thing you’ll notice about Zero Day is the cast. Netflix has spared no expense here, assembling an Avengers-style who’s-who of serious character actors...

Reacher is back, and mostly unchanged, at least as far as the premiere of Season 3 goes. Is this a bad thing? No, not at all.

The way Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books work is by never changing under any circumstances. They’re modern riffs on the old-school story of a noble...

On balance, Episode 3 of The Hunting Party is the best one yet, in large part because it seems to understand that everything involving the Pit and its secrets is significantly more interesting than the actual case-of-the-week plotting.

At first glance, Paradise becomes a very different show in Episode 6, “You Asked for Miracles”. This is the first time Xavier – or anyone, for that matter – has been able to successfully turn the tables on Sinatra.

Episode 2 of Watson is about a guy who thinks he’s someone else, which is pretty apt since this is a show that can’t seem to decide what it is.

The White Lotus isn’t getting predictable, but it is getting more familiar, which you can tell writer/director Mike White is playing with intentionally in Season 3.

Are we being lured into a false sense of security? That’s the vibe I get from the Season 3 premiere of Yellowjackets, which debuts in Episodes 1 & 2 with the vibe of a soft reboot after Season 2 went a little off the rails.

If there’s a word to describe Episode 5 of Severance Season 2, it’s probably “sinister”. This isn’t entirely new for the show – the previous episode ended with someone almost being drowned in an icy river – but it usually comes in fits and starts.

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?