Mystery & Thriller
Culprits Season 1 Episode 2 Recap – Higher stakes and clearer targets
“Angler Fish” is about fear, in many ways, not all of them obvious. Sure, the sentiment comes through most bluntly when the title itself is...
Culprits Season 1 Episode 1 Recap – A stately premiere lays the blueprint for a big heist
There was before, and then there’s after. This is the narrative framing conceit employed by Culprits Season 1, with Episode 1, “Change of Use”, being divided...
Culprits Season 1 Review – Hulu heist thriller sticks to the plan and makes off with the loot
Culprits is a suspiciously undermarketed heist thriller streaming on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ everywhere else, and like the best cons, it seems to...
The Tailor Season 3 Review – Rapidly running out of thread
The Tailor is a show in a hurry. In the last six months, three seasons of it have debuted on Netflix, becoming unexpected hits in...
Ferry: The Series Review – It’s time to admit that we like Ferry Bouman despite being a shoddy villain
Ferry: The Series may take advantage of a character that has no right to be popular, but Netflix deciding to take advantage of Undercover and...
Invincible Season 2 Part 1 Review – An emotionally charged season
Mark Grayson is trying to balance life as a superhero in the second season of the Prime Video series Invincible. The comic book series created by...
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Episode 15 Recap – Who kills Dagon?
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 has been full of surprises so far. From Geto’s reappearance to Gojo being sealed, it’s been a roller coaster of crazy...
Invincible Season 2 Episode 1 Recap
Invincible Season 2 sees the city of Chicago dealing with the aftermath of the havoc that Omni-Man caused in the first season of the Prime Video...
Locked In (2023) Review – Entertaining enough B-thriller elevated by a talented cast
Locked In (2023) is a straight-to-Netflix British B-thriller with all the guilty pleasure elements you would expect from the genre. There’s a remote mansion, a...
Black Cake Season 1 Review – A worthwhile but longwinded adaptation
Black Cake has a lot going for it. It’s adapted from the same-titled New York Times bestseller by Charmaine Wilkerson. It’s fronted by Mia Isaac,...
Hurricane Season (2023) Review – Delivers on gore and violence but overstays its welcome
The Netflix film Hurricane Season (2023) is based on the book of the same name by Fernanda Melchor. Book adaptations are always difficult because there...
Wingwomen Review – A fun, female-led action flick
Mélanie Laurent, who broke through in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, has made a name for herself as a filmmaker and is back in the director’s...
‘Jujutsu Kaisen’ Season 2, Episode 14 Recap – What Happened In “Fluctuations”?
Out of all the fights coming up in the Shibuya Incident arc, Yuji versus Choso was easily one of the most anticipated to air this...
Five Nights at Freddy’s Review – A Crowd-Pleasing Video Game Adaptation
2023 seems to have brought an end to the curse of the video game adaptation, with The Last of Us gaining countless award nominations and...
‘Burning Betrayal’ Review – A Lacklustre Thriller With a Predictable Ending
In Burning Betrayal, Babi (Giovanna Lancellotti) is blindsided by her fiance, who is currently on trial for money laundering. After five years of being with him,...
Elite Season 7 Episode 8 Recap and Ending Explained
Well, folks, we’ve finally made it, and Elite Season 7 has been a particularly aggravating journey. Knowing that the ending of Season 7 is really...
Elite Season 7 Episode 7 Recap
“Just Hug Me”, the penultimate episode of Elite Season 7, really just proves what I’ve been saying all along – this show is rubbish. And...
Elite Season 7 Episode 6 Recap
Before we get into “Rock Bottom”, Episode 6 of Elite Season 7, permit me a small point. It occurs to me that it’s difficult to...
Elite Season 7 Episode 5 Recap
Episode 4 was, on balance, probably the best episode of Elite Season 7. Episode 5, on the other hand, is not. At all. There’s a...
Elite Season 7 Episode 4 Recap
There’s always a party episode in Elite and other teen dramas, and it’s always followed by the hangover episode, or the “morning after the night...