Mystery & Thriller

It occurs to me that The Terminal List: Dark Wolf suffers slightly from Ben Edwards and Raife Hastings being the least interesting things about it.

Maybe it's just me, but The Terminal List: Dark Wolf has real pacing issues.

Blimey, this is a bit serious, isn't it? The Terminal List: Dark Wolf lays its cards out on the table pretty early in Episode 1, and those cards read, roughly, "The American armed forces should be treated with paramount reverence and respect."

Stephen King is the most famous horror writer in the world, which is worth remembering sometimes, because The Institute isn’t really a horror story. It’s...

Dexter Morgan kills bad guys. He’s pretty particular about it, so it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking about Dex as if he’s a good guy.

Fall for Me is a tale of two sisters, both idiots, who find themselves ensnared in a sexy scheme to defraud them of an expansive...

The experience of watching Fall for Me is a lot like watching paint dry, with the semi-important caveat of someone getting their nipples out every...

There's no vehicular combat in Episodes 8 & 9 of Twisted Metal Season 2, which, for an adaptation of a video game franchise built entirely around vehicular combat, seems a tad concerning.

It’s hard for a show like Rivers of Fate, which largely traffics in outright misery, to have anything even resembling a happy ending. But these...

Rivers of Fate seems sprung to life as a dare, almost as if directors Fernando and Quico Meirelles were trying to win a bet about...

“Metamorphosis” is defined as a transformational change, often from an immature form to an adult one, so despite conjuring images of butterflies bursting from chrysalises, as far as Alien: Earth is concerned, it applies less to the Xenomorphs and more to the Lost Boys.

“Out of the frying pan and into the fire” comes to mind when watching Episode 7 of The Institute.

Part of the fun of any Dexter show is wondering how he’s going to keep getting away with it, but even by franchise standards, Episode 7 of Dexter:...

The first major round in the Twisted Metal tournament isn't especially interesting, which, it turns out, is by design.

Killing off major characters is often seen as a pretty cheap way of farming audience engagement.

I get that it’d be a stretch to say the Xenomorphs are the good guys in Alien: Earth, but it’s a possibility we should probably consider. The upside of relocating this franchise to terra firma is that it provides a much broader sample buffet of extraterrestrial entrées.

It’s amazing that there hasn’t been an Alien TV show until now. It seems so obvious.

We need to talk. Butterfly was already a sneaky show, a family drama masquerading as an espionage thriller, but its ending shifts it into different,...

Prime Video’s espionage thriller Butterfly, based on the BOOM! Studios graphic novel series created by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett, is a family affair as much...

First appearances can be deceiving. What Butterfly looks like, on the surface, is a pretty generic espionage thriller, not meaningfully different in Prime Video’s oeuvre...