Among the guests on the third season of HBO’s The White Lotus are a trio of childhood friends who, it is immediately obvious, cannot stand each other. From the moment they step off the boat, […]
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In the second-season premiere of Disney+’s Andor, a small group of Imperial officers gather for a meeting. In delicate euphemisms, over a tasteful catered lunch, plans are hatched for the wholesale slaughter of Ghorman, a […]
It was around perhaps the third episode of Ransom Canyon that I finally realized what Netflix’s new Western-themed romantic drama reminded me of: Varsity Valley. Which, to be clear, is not some cheesy primetime soap […]
Cold is never far from mind in Netflix’s North of North, set in a remote village deep in the Arctic region of Canada. Snow blankets the ground in every single episode, as icy grey waters […]
Due to an unfortunate quirk of timing, you might initially take Netflix’s Pulse for a pale imitation of Max’s The Pitt. Here, once again, is a drama set in the emergency room of a teaching […]
If there’s one thing Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest loves, it’s a detour. This has been true since the very first season, which paused midway through for a one-off about two characters we hadn’t met before […]
From a business standpoint, it’s rarely much of a mystery why this ripped-from-the-headlines true-crime miniseries or that one exists. The subjects are already household names. The topics at hand, typically scammers or serial killers, spark […]
So far in 2025, I’ve seen shows about doctors in urgent care, cannibals stranded in the woods, superheroes battling the forces of evil, vast governmental conspiracies that go all the way to the top. None […]
The Hulu comedy Deli Boys opens with a glib take on the American dream. In a cheesy video to shareholders, Baba Dar (Iqbal Theba) recalls how he immigrated from Pakistan in 1979 without much more […]
The first time archnemeses Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) come face to face in Disney+’s Daredevil: Born Again, each is swearing he’s no longer the man he used to be. Matt, […]
Netflix has drafted quite the team for Running Point, its new comedy set in the front office of a basketball franchise that is not the Los Angeles Lakers, but not not the Los Angeles Lakers. […]