Mystery & Thriller

“New York is back,” says a happy bystander in the Season 2 premiere of Daredevil: Born Again, in one of those boots-on-the-ground handheld interstitials from BB Urich that the first season used to take the political temperature.

"I'm a lot of things. I'm not a monster," says Robert in Episode 3 of Imperfect Women, and it's perhaps the least convincing thing anyone has ever said.

So, Memory of a Killer has finally revealed its season-long mystery, and more importantly, supplied a pretty relatable motivation for why the Ferryman has had...

Part of the reason I get so frustrated with Watson is that when it’s firing on all cylinders, it has the potential to deliver truly...

With no Sherlock in sight, Watson Season 2 always seems to work better. More so than that, Episode 13 finally remembers Laila exists! More to...

Folks, we have some speculating to do. Paradise Season 2 is obviously building towards a big finale, and it’s doing it by raising some extremely interesting questions...

I haven’t exactly been complimentary of the first couple of episodes of Girl from Nowhere: The Reset, but after Episode 3, I wish we could go...

Episode 2 of Imperfect Women is built around the most obvious “twist” in the history of television, but if we’re being charitable, I’d suggest that the whole thing isn’t intended as a twist as much as a grim inevitability.

You can’t have a TV friendship without one of you dying. Those are just the rules, I think, and at least in Episode 1, Apple TV+’s Imperfect Women operates on the assumption that murder isn’t surprising to anyone, least of all the audience.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get much worse for Angelo in Memory of a Killer, Episode 7 comes along. “Dr. Parks” is the first...

Paradise has always been resistant to the idea of a simple antagonist. We’ve seen this play out a number of times with even the show’s...

Nope, still not convinced. Something still feels off. Girl from Nowhere: The Reset doesn’t feel as discordant in Episode 2 as it perhaps did in the premiere, which was a bit performatively “new” to live up to the title and draw attention to the casting change, but it isn’t like “Panty” has a great deal to offer on its own terms.

It isn’t an accident that Stacy and Preston Clyburn’s kids have been so generally unlikeable throughout The Madison. In Episode 3, “Watch Her Fall”, it becomes a plot point. In the opening flashback, it’s revealed that Abigail was going through a divorce, utterly unsurprising to her parents, since it was obvious to them that Abby is a pampered idiot who has been making bad decisions her entire life on their dime.

Episode 2 of The Madison is a little weaker than the pilot, if you ask me. Not by a big stretch, granted, but there has to be a trade-off to less Kurt Russell, even though he keeps showing up in flashbacks, and here it’s a little forward momentum.

It’s very hard to consider The Madison as a spin-off of Yellowstone, which is sort of what it has been advertised as. Part of a tie-in triple-threat also comprising Marshals and The Dutton Ranch, Taylor Sheridan’s deeply contemplative neo-Western Montanaverse is certainly expanding, but if Episode 1 of this show is anything to go by, it’s also diversifying.

I suspect that jetting around the world hunting crazy serial killers is pretty high-stress, as far as jobs go, but even by the usual standards,...

Characteristically for a show like That Night, which takes an unusual approach to what is ostensibly a crime thriller all throughout its runtime, its ending...

You shouldn’t be too complacent with That Night, which at first blush looks a lot like a thousand other Netflix crime thrillers. The Spanish ones...

Paradise is a really, really good television show. I've been thinking about this a lot throughout Season 2, since every episode just keeps nailing it. At first, I was worried that I'm just a sucker for the Dan Fogelman brand of schmaltz, which remains a possibility, since the previous chapter laid it on really thick.

Change is good, or at least it can be, but it’s typically best if the change occurs for a reason. This is the key thing...