Mystery & Thriller
Harlan Coben’s ‘Run Away’ Episode 7 Recap – Chaos Erupts, As Expected
The penultimate episode of Harlan Coben’s Run Away is… about what you’d expect, really. A lot is revealed, albeit not everything, a bunch of people die, and the stakes are set for a clarifying finale that will – hopefully! – give us the answers we seek about everything.
Harlan Coben’s ‘Run Away’ Episode 6 Recap – Well, I Wasn’t Expecting That
Okay, Run Away, you got me. Harlan Coben shows typically have a moment like the one in Episode 6, the major plot development you think they won’t possibly commit to.
Harlan Coben’s ‘Run Away’ Episode 5 Recap – Of Course There’s A Cult
The previous episode of Harlan Coben’s Run Away revealed that Dee Dee was connected to a religious cult called the Beacon of the Shining Truth, and this makes figuring the plot out a lot easier.
Harlan Coben’s ‘Run Away’ Episode 4 Recap – The Pieces Are Beginning to Fit
Episode 4 marks the midway point of Harlan Coben’s Run Away, and you can tell. Things were getting complicated already, but “A Different Time” just throws in a bunch more subplots and possibilities for good measure.
Harlan Coben’s ‘Run Away’ Episode 3 Recap – Meet the Parents
Episode 3 marks the point where Harlan Coben’s Run Away starts to go a bit nuts. I mean, don’t get me wrong, these shows are...
Harlan Coben’s ‘Run Away’ Episode 2 Recap – I Don’t Trust Anybody
After the premiere of Harlan Coben’s Run Away introduced a bunch of seemingly unrelated characters and subplots, it’s only right that Episode 2, “Tattoos While U Wait”,...
Harlan Coben’s ‘Run Away’ Episode 1 Recap – Missing Girls, Murder, and Oh My
You know the deal by now. Episode 1 of any Harlan Coben show is always more or less the same: a string of seemingly unconnected...
Harlan Coben’s ‘Run Away’ Review – Another Twisty Start to a Netflix New Year
Every Netflix subscriber has gotten used to the idea of a new Harlan Coben thriller to see in the new year, and by now, everyone...
‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 4 Ending Explained – All Out War
Seemingly conceived as an answer to the question “How much torture can be included in an hour of television?”, the finale of Mayor of Kingstown Season 4...
‘Stranger Things’ Season 5, Volume 2 Review – It Keeps Working In Spite Of Itself
I’ve realised against my better – and indeed professional – judgement that I’ll forgive Stranger Things for just about anything, so long as the core...
‘Stranger Things’ Season 5, Volume 2 Ending Explained – Steve and the Beanstalk
This is it. The last big brainstorming session before the bumper finale. The last chance for every character to get a few things off their...
‘Stranger Things’ Season 5, Episode 6 Recap – Why Does This Look So Bad?
Let me be the one to say it. Given how long it has taken to bring Stranger Things Season 5 to life, and how much money has been spent on the endeavour, there is absolutely zero justification for Episode 6 looking as bad as it does.
‘Stranger Things’ Season 5, Episode 5 Recap – This Show Should Be About Derek
The first volume of Stranger Things Season 5 ended in such a big, satisfying, and social media-savvy way that it was basically impossible that Episode 5, the premiere of Volume 2, was going to live up to it.
‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap – Mike’s Making Moves
Well, that's how you do a penultimate episode, isn't it? Mayor of Kingstown has always been at its best at the tail end of a season, and that seems to be holding true for Season 4, since "Teeth and Tissue" is riveting stuff.
‘Watson’ Season 2, Episode 10 Recap – A Messy Midseason Finale
Every time Sherlock Holmes has shown up in Watson Season 2, it has heralded bad news.
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Ending Explained – Nobody Ever Stays Dead
There are two constants in Stephen King’s work: Fear and evil. Both are eternal. The very idea of Pennywise – or “The Entity”, or simply...
‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap – Things Just Got Real
You could feel it coming, couldn't you? All throughout Mayor of Kingstown Season 4, that feeling of impending calamity has been building, and building, and here in Episode 8, "Belleville", it arrives.
‘City of Shadows’ Ending Explained – Baptism By Fire
There’s a lot of fire in City of Shadows. Flames form a recurring motif; for revenge, for rebirth, for all kinds of the usual ideas...
‘City of Shadows’ Review – Netflix’s Catalonian Answer to Dan Brown Thrillers
Slipping right into the storied streaming canon about maverick detectives with haunted backstories solving major crimes in European cities, City of Shadows is the latest...
‘Watson’ Season 2, Episode 9 Recap – It’s All Getting Weird and Rubbish Again
It turns out Laila is still in Watson Season 2 after all, but her sudden reappearance in Episode 9 causes more problems than it fixes.