Mystery & Thriller

Before is, in a word, stupid. This won’t come as news to anyone at this point, but it’s especially ironic since it thinks it’s so...

Ian helps the sisters cover their tracks, bringing him closer to Eva but further into Houlihan's spotlight.

I’m still not convinced by The Agency. In Season 1, Episode 3, “Hawk From A Handsaw”, it gets so gratingly serious and so obvious and...

Before hasn’t exactly been riveting throughout, but Episode 8 is a collection of its very worst qualities. Running under 25 minutes, delivering no new information,...

Ending an espionage thriller conclusively is almost impossible, so you have to respect the effort Black Doves goes to in order to tie Season 1...

Black Doves, Netflix’s British action-thriller series from Giri/Haji’s Joe Barton, is technically a Christmas show. The holiday has nothing to do with the plot, which...

“Boom” is about Eva in the same way that “Person of Interest” was about Becka. This is to say that Eva’s problems are foregrounded a...

I love a spy drama, and there’s room for all kinds of different ones. But The Agency debuts in a post-Slow Horses streaming climate where...

You can tell that The Madness would like to be described as “timely”, “biting”, or any number of other adjectives one would typically throw at...

It took a couple too many bloated episodes to get here, but the ending of Gangnam B-Side is… okay, I guess, very much like the...

Episode 7 of Before, “The Power of Belief”, revolves around another unconventional therapy technique that Eli attempts on Noah, and it’s weird that we’re supposed...

It hasn’t exactly been a smooth start for the second season of Bad Sisters, The two-part Season 2 premiere took a while getting out of the...

Can impersonating a kidnapper save a sham marriage? I guess this is the question being floated by When the Phone Rings Episode 2, which picks...

Well, blimey. It was virtually inevitable that Act 3 of Arcane Season 2 was going to stir some emotions, but as usual with this show,...

A grain of truth is a powerful thing, and there’s a big one behind Netflix’s Swedish limited series The Helicopter Heist. The 2009 robbery of...

If there are two things everybody loves these days, it’s true crime and heist thrillers. The Helicopter Heist knows this, which is why the Swedish...

Well, Before is heating up a little, isn’t it? Episode 6, “Fever Dream”, continues a recent trend of being quite coherent, actually providing some answers...

Ironically for a show titled Adoration, everyone in this seems to hate each other. There are more arguments in the first couple of episodes that...

It’s safe to say that Gangnam B-Side goes a little off the rails in Episodes 5 and 6. While there’s still a lot to like...

Season 2 of Bad Sisters got off to a slightly stunted start, so it’s a shame that Episode 3, “Missing”, doesn’t have much urgency either. But it...