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Last Seen’ Episode 3, titled “The Lie,” finally brings Ian much closer to the people hiding the truth about Sarah, even if he still does not know exactly where she is. Apple describes the episode as one in which a closer examination of Sarah’s emergency call turns Ian’s world “inside out,” and that is exactly…
The Room Below begins as a story about grief, but Kurt Martin’s film gradually turns that grief into something far more dangerous. Mia Levine has spent a decade unable to recover from the death of her son Axel, and when Simon enters her life, she convinces herself that she has been given another chance at…
Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7 ends with Ted deleting his completed Bantr profile and returning to the theatre to ask the unnamed stage manager on a date. She turns him down because she is already seeing someone, leaving Ted single and still unaware of her name. The rejection, however, is not really a setback.…
Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7, “Yes & Baby,” picks up after the New Year’s break with the Lady Greyhounds discovering that a new calendar year has done very little to solve their old problems. Lizzie is once again disappointed by her ex, Gemma has to choose between training and a promising law internship interview,…
Season 6 of Slow Horses opens with Slough House facing a threat unlike the political conspiracies and terrorist plots that have previously dragged Jackson Lamb’s team into action. This time, someone appears to be working through the unit’s past, finding people who once belonged to Slough House and eliminating them one by one. The timing…
Taskmaster NZ Season 7 is only two episodes old, but the new group is already beginning to settle into the peculiar rhythm that makes the format work. Dave Fane arrives with the confidence of someone willing to commit completely to a terrible idea, Rose Matafeo has enough previous Taskmaster experience to know that experience rarely…
Netflix’s Stolen Heartbeats, originally titled En coma, moves unusually fast even by thriller standards. Its short-form episodes compress a medical conspiracy, a supernatural connection and several overlapping relationships into only a few minutes at a time. At the center is Anabel Roldán, who is left in a coma while people around her begin making decisions…
After more than two decades of CIA disasters, alien disguises and increasingly strange Smith family adventures, American Dad! reached its 400th episode with a story appropriately centered on Stan Smith. “400?!” turns Stan’s latest CIA assignment into a crisis over something he has rarely doubted: his own importance. He nearly dies during his 400th mission,…
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has never needed much encouragement to turn a changing social habit into a crisis for Paddy’s Pub, and Season 18 Episode 6 finds the Gang confronting one that actually threatens their livelihood. “The War on Alcohol” begins when a salesman introduces them to Shallow Shade Lager, a locally brewed beer…
The first batch of Stolen Heartbeats ends after dramatically changing the nature of its central mystery. Anabel’s coma initially looks like the main problem, but by Episode 31, she is awake and able to investigate what happened to her. That turns out to be far more dangerous because the conspiracy around her reaches through the…
Below Deck Mediterranean Season 11 Episode 15 begins with Captain Sandy Yawn questioning Nathan Gallagher’s leadership, but by the end of the hour, Joe Bradley has much bigger problems of his own. Sandy repeatedly intervenes when she believes Nathan is treating Joe unfairly, giving Joe the opportunity to prove that he deserves more trust on…
Apple TV’s Slow Horses began with a simple idea: MI5 agents who make career-ending mistakes are not always fired. Some are sent to Slough House, a deliberately miserable administrative outpost where Jackson Lamb presides over a collection of spies the Service would rather keep out of sight. Five seasons later, those same supposed failures have…
