Mystery & Thriller

Continuing a long and effective tradition of thrillers set in provincial towns with dirty secrets buried in their foundations, Colors of Evil: Black is nothing...

I’m not a soothsayer, but I could have told you weeks ago that Criminal Record wasn’t going to have a happy ending. The signs were there....

For the most part, there’s a single source of tension in the penultimate episode of Criminal Record Season 2. There’s nothing new about it, since it’s the...

It isn’t easy being a teenage girl at the best of times — or so I’m reliably told — but in Gilead it’s virtually impossible....

If we’ve had the big night out, then “When the Music Stops” is very much the hangover that follows it. Criminal Record has proved in Season 2...

The obvious selling point of Spider-Noir is, unavoidably, Nicolas Cage. In his first proper TV role, he plays Ben Reilly, aka “The Spider”, a private...

You might be fooled into thinking that there isn’t a great deal going on in Episode 9 of The Testaments, but don’t be so hasty. While...

It’s all going a bit wrong, isn’t it? Personally, professionally, politically, whatever you like, Criminal Record Season 2 is turning into a real house of cards. This...

We’re not very far into Season 3 of The Terror, and we don’t know Pepper especially well. He’s trapped in less-than-ideal circumstances, and he’s under...

I’m never quite sure what AMC is doing with The Terror. There are always giant gaps between seasons, the marketing is always light, nobody ever...

Some television is designed to be aggravating, and it has been obvious since the start of Criminal Record Season 2 that this is very much...

It probably says a lot about Marvel’s general handling of the MCU these days that there hasn’t been a so-called “special presentation” since the idea...

There's an ancient Japanese art called kintsugi. It involves repairing broken ceramics with a lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. When the object is reassembled, its repaired cracks are visible and glimmering, lacing its new form with the story of its reconstruction.

Whatever has motivated some of Taron Egerton’s recent career choices, I’ve got to say that I’m into it. He should probably never play a good...

The Hunting Party Season 2 comes to a close in Episode 13 by shifting the status quo pretty radically, honestly, in a way that I’m...

One thing The Hunting Party has always done well – and continues to do well in Season 2 – is having its cake and eating...

Well, we have plenty to discuss here, don’t we? As well as finally bringing the long-simmering conflict between Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk to something...

Another day, another Daisy episode of The Testaments. Not for the first time, “Commitment” is framed around the narration and Canadian flashbacks of our favourite Pearl...

There are two ways of looking at Criminal Record Season 2. One is a more conventional thriller, which is the level that I think it’s slightly disappointing...

It’s a testament to how well-made Criminal Record is that Episode 2 of Season 2, “Firestarters”, works at all. Not a great deal happens in...