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The mysteries running through Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Season 2 gradually turn out to be parts of the same plan. The strange blue flowers, the Hate Sprites, the supposed ghost haunting Hawkins and the wooden creatures beneath the town all trace back to someone the Hawkins Investigators Club believed was gone for good. By…
“The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” has rarely struggled to turn a reunion between cast members into an argument, but the Season 7 premiere has little interest in beginning that way. Episode 1, titled “Chosen Family,” brings the women together under circumstances none of them would have chosen. Mary Cosby is grieving the death…
South Park returns for Season 29 with “South American Biker Gangs,” an episode that begins as a fight over e-bikes and gradually turns into a turf war between children and middle-aged cyclists. Cartman predictably starts the trouble, but the story eventually belongs to Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, whose excitement over their new bikes puts them…
The Doll spends most of its six episodes making marriage between Stanisław Wokulski and Izabela Łęcka look like the answer to every conflict surrounding them. For Wokulski, marrying Izabela would seem to prove that money and persistence have finally carried him across the class divide that has haunted him for years. For Izabela, accepting him…
Netflix’s The Doll begins with Stanisław Wokulski returning to Warsaw as a very different man from the one who left. War has made him wealthy, but money has not erased his old sense that the aristocracy occupies a world permanently closed to people like him. Rather than simply enjoying his new position, he fixes almost…
MasterChef: Global Gauntlet brings its international competition to a close with Jake Kelley, Peter Egede, and Heidi Muston still separated by two courses. Finale Part 1 established their three-course menus and completed the appetizers, but Episode 18 returns with the entree cook already underway. Each finalist has arrived at this point with a distinctive culinary…
Reacher Season 4 ends far more quietly than its brutal final confrontation might suggest. After the conspiracy is exposed and the surviving characters begin moving forward, Jack Reacher finds himself back on public transportation, once again alone and ready to continue wandering. That is when he briefly sees Anna Merrick, the woman whose death pulled…
City of Blood Season 1 ends by shifting Berlin’s struggle into an entirely new phase. What began as a conflict between humans and vampires increasingly becomes a question of political influence, public opinion and who will shape the city’s future after the election. For Bea and Phoebe, however, the finale remains deeply personal. Bea’s circumstances…
Prime Video’s Neagley ends its first season by solving two mysteries that have been following Frances Neagley for very different lengths of time. She finally learns why Tommy died and brings down the people behind Echo Canyon, but the investigation also forces her to confront a buried childhood memory that explains why she cannot tolerate…
The Challenge: Cutthroat Season 42 Episode 8 begins without the usual buildup. TJ Lavin walks into the house and announces that Leo Dionicio, Nelson Thomas and Josh Goldstein have all broken The Challenge’s code of conduct and are no longer in the game. The incident itself is not shown, leaving the remaining players stunned and…
The Amazing Race Canada Season 12 ends in Calgary with Tina and Liz completing a comeback that briefly looked impossible. The Hamilton twin sisters enter the final leg as the strongest team left in the race, but the finale immediately strips away that advantage when Tina struggles during the opening ring-toss challenge. By the time…
The Drop: A Snowfall Saga Episode 2 pushes Wanda’s music ambitions into much more complicated territory as Black Banner tries to turn Artillery’s potential into a legitimate record deal. Lamar’s work with Artillery finally gives the label something valuable to build around, while Wanda earns a bigger role in the company and Macroscope’s interest makes…
