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The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 Episode 7 spends much of its runtime making Negan look like the biggest danger on Manhattan. He has killed Fabian, admitted to killing the Dama, and apparently left Dillard with a brutal wound across his face, giving Renata more reason to believe that keeping him alive could put…
A Tale of Two Cities Episode 1, titled Recalled to Life, begins with a painful memory that has defined Lucie Manette for most of her life. As a child in Paris, she watches her father, Alexandre Manette, stay behind while Jarvis Lorry takes her to safety. Eighteen years later, Lucie has accepted that her father…
Lioness Season 3 Episode 6, Sugar Land, finally breaks one of the season’s biggest assumptions while making Joe’s rescue even more urgent. The CIA has spent days operating on the belief that Russian intelligence kidnapped Joe, but Kyle’s search for Oleksa produces a different conclusion: Russia may have supplied operatives, while Iran is more likely…
Bookish Season 2 Episodes 5 and 6, titled Killer Nacht: Part One and Killer Nacht: Part Two, take Gabriel Book and Jack away from Archangel Lane for a case that becomes much more personal than either of them expected. Their journey to Germany begins with the proposed sale of a rare Shakespeare volume, but Book’s…
For most of Mayday, Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly believes his problem is fairly simple: survive long enough to get out of the Soviet Union. By the final act, that is no longer the whole mission. Nikolai Ustinov has risked everything to help him, Alexander Volkov wants to turn Troy into political ammunition, and Troy has…
Silo Season 3 ends by finally connecting Daniel Keene’s past to Juliette Nichols’ present. Episode 10, titled Troy, confirms that Daniel survives inside Silo 1 but loses his old identity after cryogenic sleep and memory manipulation. Decades later, he is the specialist known as Troy, someone trusted to deal with rebellions in the other silos.…
Dark Matter Season 2 Episode 2 begins by returning to a moment when the Box still represented possibility rather than destruction. Jason, Amanda, Leighton, Blair and the rest of their team celebrate the machine becoming operational, believing they are about to change their world for the better. Blair is preparing to become the first person…
Bella’s death initially looks like part of a much larger attack on Eddie Horniman’s empire, and the Season 2 finale deliberately sends Eddie after several possible enemies before revealing the betrayal inside his own family. Freddy Horniman and Gospel John are behind the plot, although Freddy does not personally confess to killing Bella and the…
Chad Powers Season 2 spends most of its six episodes tightening the trap around Russ Holliday. Keeping the Chad Powers identity alive was already difficult when only Danny knew the truth, but by the finale, too many people have noticed inconsistencies and Gerry has finally figured out enough to become genuinely dangerous. What begins as…
Alone Season 13 Episode 12, titled Subzero, takes the World Championship into its most punishing stretch yet as Aaron Barnard, Nero Buys and Žiga Ogorelec continue battling cold, hunger and isolation in the Arctic. At this stage of the competition, survival is no longer simply about finding food. Every contestant is trying to preserve enough…
The Shards Episode 8, Hamlet, brings Bret closer than ever to proving his theory about Robert Mallory, only to end with Bret becoming physically intimate with the same person he believes could be the Trawler. The episode strongly suggests that Bret and Robert spend the night together, but it deliberately stops short of making every…
The last episode of Lovesick appears to force Emilia Sauri into the decision she has spent much of her life avoiding: Daniel Cuenca or Antonio Zavalza. Yet the answer is deliberately more complicated than simply naming a winner. In the main timeline, Emilia chooses the stable life she can build with Zavalza rather than continuing…
