His Dark Materials Recap: A Cesspit of Moral FilthMrs. Coulter’s swan song is elevated despite some weird setbacks.
His Dark Materials Recap: Mangy VerminThe TV show fails to do the harpies justice.
His Dark Materials Recap: Hold On to What’s RealMary’s new friends, Dr. Cooper’s last stand, and the narrative betrayal of Lyra Silvertongue.
‘His Dark Materials’ Recap: Where Will I Go? The HBO show’s fundamental dæmon problem threatens to undermine an otherwise gripping episode.
His Dark Materials Recap: What I Want You to BeThere’s so much sexual subtext that a casual viewer dropping in on this episode would have absolutely no clue that this was once a children’s series.
His Dark Materials Season-Premiere Recap: Death Is Going to DieAfter a two-year wait, Asriel’s megalomaniacal campaign kinda … hits different.
His Dark Materials Recap: Your Strength, My GuileCoulter loses at chess, Asriel does an enhanced interrogation, and Mary Malone plays an adventure RPG.
Y: The Last Man Season-Finale Recap: The Carrier Bag Theory of TimeAs the first season wraps and its future hangs in the balance, Y: The Last Man frees itself from its individualistic source material.
Y: The Last Man Recap: Letting the Grass GrowIn the glow of the apocalypse, false rules burn. Now our players must figure out how to survive without them.
Y: The Last Man Recap: Moths in the PentagonIn this world, you either yield a little bit of power or hold out long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Y: The Last Man Recap: For a Minute There, I Lost MyselfBad faith is forged, good trust is shattered, and a monkey takes the sacrament.
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Y: The Last Man Recap: Poor Little Rich KidsHero continues her reign of terror, while 355 finally reads Yorick the riot act.
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Y: The Last Man Recap: They Named You After A Dead Clown?Kimberly Campbell Cunningham is a villain who gets more terrifying the longer you think about it.
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Y: The Last Man Recap: Priceless Genetic MaterialPresident Jennifer Brown is trying to pick up the pieces after the Event, as her children have difficulty letting go of the past.
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Y: The Last Man Series-Premiere Recap: A Nice GuyThe acclaimed-yet-problematic comic series is reimagined by creators with skin in the game, and it rules.
Shadow and Bone Season-Finale Recap: A Tale of Two BoatsWhere Alina once dirtied her hands and doubted her victory, now she’s confident and righteous. And she’s headed to Ketterdam.
Shadow and Bone Recap: Make Me Your VillainMake him a monster or make him a tragic figure, just don’t do … whatever this is.
Shadow and Bone Recap: Now KissKaz Brekker really should have stayed in Ketterdam.
Shadow and Bone Recap: The Lynx FlushBaghra is the hero none of us deserve.
Shadow and Bone Recap: Time For a HeistAlina is learning to be her own person, albeit under extreme duress.
Shadow and Bone Recap: Punching Through the Shadow FoldThis episode would be a total bummer if it weren’t for the Crows.
Shadow and Bone Recap: Yours to LoseAs Alina’s new identity begins to take shape, the political stakes of this world begin to take on fascinating new dimension.
Shadow and Bone Series-Premiere Recap: Take Your Time or Take Your ChancesThe Netflix adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse YA novels starts out with some good adaptation choices and some seriously questionable ones.
Discovery ’s Sonequa Martin-Green on Why Burnham Is Ready for the Captain’s ChairThe Star Trek: Discovery star examines the road that finally led a Black woman to the franchise’s most esteemed seat.
Star Trek: Discovery Season Finale Recap: Deus Ex MyceliaA nice, neat conclusion betrays the complex problems this show was just starting to explore.
Star Trek: Discovery Recap: Abstractions and ApplesDiscovery dips its toes in Deep Space Nine territory, and it … kind of works?
His Dark Materials Season Finale Recap: With Me or Against MeJohn Parry and Asriel are really taking the term “deadbeat dad” to new heights.
Star Trek: Discovery Recap: Anticipated InputTechnically, this counts as a holodeck episode.
His Dark Materials Recap: Mother of us AllIf Mary is the serpent, what does that make Coulter?
Star Trek: Discovery Recap: The Spoils of PeaceFor a redemption arc, there sure is a lot of brutal murder going on here.
His Dark Materials Recap: Impertinent, Intelligent, FreeThe series’ first episode entirely written and directed by women demonstrates exactly what’s been missing: nuance and female interiority.
Star Trek: Discovery Recap: Through the Looking GlassTurns out Georgiou’s condition is both temporal and interdimensional. The cure? Atonement. (Maybe.)
Star Trek: Discovery Recap: Observers, Manifest!A perfectly fine episode is studded with some shining mini-moments.
His Dark Materials Recap: Pain and PossessionAn underwhelming and at times infuriating crossroads episode is offset by a bit of Paddington magic.
Star Trek: Discovery Recap: Endearing Messianic Complex It’s the best episode of Discovery to date, but ask yourself: are you ready to cry this much?
His Dark Materials Recap: Negative CapabilityThere’s a good chance Mrs. Coulter may have committed some light blackmail.
Star Trek: Discovery Recap: Looking Up“Can we irradiate your entire personality?”
Star Trek: Discovery Recap: An Unstoppable ForceA perfect marriage of formats, a main character’s long-deserved redemption, and an exciting new face combine for a hall-of-fame episode.
Star Trek: Discovery Season-Premiere Recap: True Believers“It’s a supercool story, just in a completely devastating way!!”
His Dark Materials Season Finale Recap: Daddy IssuesLord Asriel may be a deadbeat dad and megalomaniac of the highest order, but give the man this: He sure can monologue.
His Dark Materials Recap: Bear JusticeTaken captive by Iofur Raknison the bear king, Lyra hatches the grift of her life.
His Dark Materials Recap: Mother!An episode that turns on the emotional horror of separating someone from their daemon is frustratingly, almost ghoulishly, light on actual daemons.
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