Mystery & Thriller

Every time Sherlock Holmes has shown up in Watson Season 2, it has heralded bad news.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

Whenever people think of It, they invariably think of a scary dancing clown, but if Welcome to Derry is proving anything, it’s that Pennywise is the least of Derry’s problems.

The old chess metaphor is pretty played out, but it's by far the most appropriate one to describe what's happening in Mayor of Kingstown Season 4.

I watch TV professionally, and rarely have I ever seen an episode of television as pointless as the finale of The Last Frontier. Early on, it...

I’m not the biggest fan of Watson, as anyone who has been reading these Season 2 recaps can probably tell, but I’m happy to admit...

Troll was extremely popular for Netflix, which means the entire franchise is now cursed. You can tell from the ending of Troll 2, which seems...

Troll 2 is so-called because it’s the sequel to Roar Uthaug’s surprise kaiju comedy Troll, which became a mega-hit on Netflix when it was released...

If you ever wanted concrete proof that The Chair Company is not like other shows, then look no further than its ending — if you...

I was going to start this recap by saying that things aren’t looking too good in It: Welcome to Derry, but now that I think about it, that’s only a matter of perspective.

Mayor of Kingstown continues to treat Season 4 as an exercise in how bad things can get for almost everyone involved.

Stranger Things is synonymous with Netflix. It has been the crown jewel in the streamer’s offerings since it debuted in 2016, and has surely turned...

Let me be the first to say that I’m no fan of Netflix releasing its big shows in volumes. Splitting up a season kills a...

Stranger Things Season 5 hasn’t quite felt like Stranger Things of old yet, something remedied by Episode 3, “The Turnbow Trap”.

You could make a case, if you were so inclined, that the Season 5 premiere of Stranger Things felt every second of its runtime because it was trying a bit too hard to settle us back in.

It takes an effort to remember this now since it was roughly a lifetime ago, but the abduction of Will Byers in Season 1 of Stranger Things remains the most important component of the narrative.