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“S.W.A.T. Exiles” does not give Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson the comfortable homecoming viewers might expect. The new series finds the veteran S.W.A.T. leader two years removed from the job, carrying the consequences of a mission that changed his career and his personal life. Season 1 Episode 1, titled “Clean Entry,” puts Hondo back in uniform, but…
Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 Episode 2, “The Veil of Time,” turns the mystery of Craigh na Dun into something much more personal for Henry and Julia. While Henry receives new hope in 1924, Julia is given an answer that appears to close the same door from the other side. Meanwhile, Ellen finds…
The Traitors: New Blood spent its opening episodes proving how easily a confident theory can send the Faithfuls in the wrong direction. Episode 4, titled The Death Parade, continues that pattern, but it also ends with the group closer than ever to identifying one of the actual Traitors. Katie Fites has barely settled into her…
The Traitors: New Blood enters Episode 3 with its most interesting experiment still unresolved. Joe Vanella and Tomica Adams have been operating as the castle’s original Traitors, but Katie Fites and Xavier Scruggs were secretly given a chance to compete for the third place in their group. The Traitors Are Watching finally reveals who wins…
HBO’s A Killer Story reaches its most consequential chapter in Episode 3, titled “A Dangerous Notion.” After spending much of the series examining the case against Dana Chandler and the people who became convinced that something had gone seriously wrong with her prosecution, the finale returns to court for two very different outcomes. What begins…
For more than two decades, “Hell’s Kitchen” has tested whether ambitious chefs can turn individual talent into the discipline Gordon Ramsay expects inside a professional kitchen. Season 25 arrives with a fitting twist for the show’s milestone year. Every contestant is 25 years old or younger, creating a cast largely made up of chefs who…
MobLand Season 2 Episode 2, titled “Song 2,” quietly identifies the Harrigans’ biggest weakness before exploiting it in the final minutes. Conrad learns that something is physically changing the part of his brain responsible for judgment and impulse control, Maeve appears to prepare a trap for Seraphina, and Harry realizes that his own daughter is…
American Horror Story: 13 wastes little time making Ben DeSoto question whether accepting a job at the Apollyon was a mistake. Episode 2, titled “1:13 AM,” keeps Ben inside Mr. Nas’ strange penthouse while steadily adding details that no ordinary hospice explanation can comfortably account for. His patient’s physical condition becomes harder to dismiss, Constance…
Dark Matter Season 2 Episode 5, titled Love and Be Loved, takes an unexpected detour from Jason1, Daniela, Amanda and Ryan to tell the story of another Jason who lost his chance to live with Daniela and Charlie. Instead of turning that loss into another fight over who deserves the Dessen family, this Jason makes…
By its third episode, American Horror Story: 13 has moved well beyond introducing Ben DeSoto and his unusual hospice assignment. “Rauhnacht” turns the Apollyon into the site of a bizarre holiday reunion as Constance Langdon gathers familiar faces and welcomes a woman who should belong to another era entirely: Elizabeth Short. FX’s synopsis describes the…
American Horror Story returns for its 13th installment by turning the number at the center of the season into something both lucky and frightening, depending entirely on who is looking at it. Episode 1, appropriately titled “13,” introduces Ben DeSoto, a hospice caregiver whose intense fear of the number collides with his girlfriend Kira’s belief…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds closes its fourth season by putting Nyota Uhura at the center of one of the show’s most ambitious temporal mysteries. Episode 10, “Tomorrow’s Enterprise,” begins with a scientific mission involving a white hole, but what looks like another unusual Enterprise assignment gradually becomes a deeply personal story about Uhura, Scotty,…
