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Naked and Afraid: Shipwrecked enters its final week with the survivalists beginning to think less about individual camps and more about how they are actually going to escape the Lost Coast. The scattered pieces of the rescue map are finally drawing everyone toward one place, but Episode 7 makes sure the path there is anything…
Dead City Season 3 reaches its finale with enough violence to make the final few minutes feel almost strangely peaceful. Dillard’s takeover collapses, Maggie’s community survives, and Negan is no longer standing outside the society everyone else is trying to build. Instead, the episode closes with Maggie and Negan sitting together and discussing what comes…
A Tale of Two Cities Episode 2, titled “Malunion,” finally gives Lucie Manette the reunion she has spent most of her life believing was impossible. Her father Alexandre is alive, but nearly two decades inside the Bastille have left him so psychologically damaged that bringing him home proves considerably more difficult than simply finding him.…
Vigil Season 3 leaves Svalbard behind for its finale, but the conspiracy becomes even more dangerous once Amy Silva and Shen Jia reach Scotland. Episode 6 reveals that the fight over Jia’s biofuel was never simply Britain against China or the West against Russia. British intelligence and the United States have both been working to…
Vigil Season 3 Episode 5 finally reveals what Shen Jia discovered beneath the Arctic ice, but the scientific breakthrough is only half the story. Amy Silva and Kirsten Longacre also discover that the investigation into Daniel Hodge’s murder has been pointing in the wrong direction. Henrik Becken has plenty to answer for, but he is…
Lioness Season 3 Episode 7 finally gives Joe McNamara something she has been fighting for since her abduction: a real chance to get back to her people. Kiss the Girls turns the rescue operation from a string of frustrating near misses into an open confrontation, as the CIA’s disruption of Babat’s escape plan forces his…
Physical 100 Italy does not spend much time letting its famous contestants enjoy their reputations. The Italian edition arrives with Olympic champions, national-team athletes, fighters, CrossFit competitors and television personalities sharing the same arena, but the first three episodes quickly establish the rule that made the original Korean format work: a recognizable name offers no…
Anna Pigeon survives the cave in “The Rope,” but getting back to civilization does not immediately make her ordeal easier to understand. Episode 6, “There’s Always a Road,” begins with Anna trying to reconstruct a night in which she was concussed, drugged and deliberately left underground with a dead woman nearby. The evidence she remembers…
Taratoa Stappard’s Mārama begins with the familiar architecture of Victorian Gothic. A young woman arrives in an unfamiliar country after receiving a mysterious letter, enters an isolated manor and gradually realizes that the wealthy man offering her protection knows far more about her than he should. The difference is that Hawkser Manor is not haunted…
Millionaire Hot Seat Season 2 Episode 10 begins with six contestants facing the possibility of a £1 million prize, but Jeremy Clarkson’s unforgiving version of the quiz quickly turns that dream into something much smaller. Sumukh Kaul gets off to a strong start, while Michelle Payne, Anne Marie Cengiz, Phil Wright, Harry Robinson and Katie…
Netflix’s The Perfect Lie spends most of its season dismantling the comfortable image surrounding the Dinner Club. Karen enters the group believing she has found the kind of wealthy, close-knit circle that might finally make her new town feel like home, only to discover that almost every marriage and friendship is being held together by…
Andréa Martel spends much of Call My Agent! The Movie watching her dream project turn into exactly the kind of disaster she used to clean up for other people. Laurent Lafitte walks out, her attempt to recruit George Clooney goes nowhere, Vincent Macaigne and Laetitia Casta bring their own volatile history to the set, and…
