Mystery & Thriller

Culprits Season 1 Episode 2 Recap – Higher stakes and clearer targets

November 8 2023, by Jonathon Wilson

“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

November 8 2023, by Jonathon Wilson

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

November 8 2023, by Jonathon Wilson

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

November 5 2023, by Jonathon Wilson

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

November 3 2023, by Daniel Hart

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

November 3 2023, by Ricky Valero

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?

November 3 2023, by Nubia Brice

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

November 3 2023, by Ricky Valero

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

November 2 2023, by Lori Meek

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

November 2 2023, by Jonathon Wilson

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

November 1 2023, by Amanda Guarragi

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

November 1 2023, by Romey Norton

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”?

October 26 2023, by Nubia Brice

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

October 26 2023, by Adam Lock

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

October 25 2023, by Amanda Guarragi

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

October 21 2023, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 21 2023, by Jonathon Wilson

“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

October 21 2023, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 21 2023, by Jonathon Wilson

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

October 21 2023, by Jonathon Wilson

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...