Mystery & Thriller
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap – Taking Some Big Swings
Fittingly for an hour titled “Gloves Off”, Daredevil: Born Again is taking some pretty big narrative swings in Episode 4. I don’t think anybody expected...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 3 Recap – More Than Meets the Eye
It took a while, but The Testaments finally shifts its focus in Episode 3 to provide more context around what Daisy is really up to. And it’s...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 2 Recap – Loose Lips Sink Ships
If you squint a bit, The Testaments at least resembles a YA drama, a coming-of-age tale about a teenager navigating the perils of adolescence. It’s not, obviously...
‘The Testaments’ Episode 1 Recap – Welcome Back to Gilead
Dystopias don’t tend to be colourful, but colour is at the very core of Hulu’s The Testaments. You see it everywhere in Episode 1, “Precious Flowers”,...
‘Imperfect Women’ Episode 5 Recap – And Another Suspect Emerges
The upside of a show in which none of the characters are likeable is that there is no shortage of people who might want to...
‘Memory of a Killer’ Ending Explained – Angelo Has Some Explaining To Do
“Exposed” is a fairly apt title for the ending of Memory of a Killer’s first season run, since it applies to Angelo and his nemesis,...
‘Girl from Nowhere: The Reset’ Episode 5 Recap – Just What Are We Doing Here?
On a serious note, what, exactly, are we even doing here? Girl from Nowhere used to be a show with a point, a dark, horror-adjacent social issues thriller about an avenging angel righting the wrongs of the student body's most deplorable bullies and scumbags.
‘The Hunting Party’ Season 2, Episode 8 Recap – These Shoe Trends Are Getting Out Of Hand
The Hunting Party has always had a penchant for coming up with creepy villains, but even by the usual standards, "Elliot Carr" is a nutter.
‘Humint’ Is A Shallow Korean Spy Thriller Elevated By Exciting Action
Most action movies treat their plot as a conveyor belt for fight scenes and their characters like crash test dummies, so on that level, at...
‘Imperfect Women’ Episode 4 Recap – A Welcome Change Of Perspective
Imperfect Women has very much been about Nancy since the beginning, which has made it a little awkward that she was killed off in the...
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap – Now We’re Talking
If “Shoot the Moon” was a deliberately slower-paced episode of Daredevil: Born Again, Episode 3, “The Scales & the Sword”, is the payoff for sitting...
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap – Spread A Little Thin
I was initially curious why Disney+ elected to air two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 at the same time instead of letting the...
‘Memory of a Killer’ Episode 9 Recap – The Ferryman Foiled (For Now)
One thing I’m thankful for – and it says a lot about Memory of a Killer’s underlying respect for the audience, I think – is...
‘Paradise’ Season 2 Ending Explained – We’re Still None the Wiser, But That’s Fine
I suppose it’s only right that the Season 2 finale of Paradise is full of biblical allusions, not least of which being that Episode 8...
‘Girl from Nowhere: The Reset’ Episode 4 Recap – Another Influencer Already?
As much as I can get behind the idea of new Nanno’s entire character arc seemingly being that she’s just mad at influencers, it does...
‘Primate’ Is Startlingly Nasty and Impressively Stupid Chimp-Horror Fun
You’re not supposed to root for the killer in slasher movies, or perhaps more accurately, you’re not supposed to admit that’s what you’re doing. But...
‘Shelter’ Is Mediocre Enough to Make Even Jason Statham Boring
I’ve argued in favour of typecasting before, and Jason Statham is one of my go-to examples of actors who do one thing well enough that...
Let’s Unpack the Demented ‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Ending
You can say a lot of things about the Duffer Brothers’ latest Netflix project, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, but you can’t say...
‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Is A Bit Too Weird For Its Own Good
With all the cache that the Duffer brothers have built up after the success of Stranger Things – a somewhat controversial ending notwithstanding – you...
‘Pretty Lethal’ Has One of the Best Action Scenes of the Year… But Very Little Else
To be clear, there’s a third-act action sequence in Pretty Lethal that is one of the year’s best, and will likely remain so. It’s a...