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With five home cooks remaining, MasterChef: Global Gauntlet turns its semifinal into a test of something the contestants have rarely been asked to do this season: stop cooking like themselves and follow two elite chefs almost step for step. Keeping Up With Gordon and Tiffany ultimately sends Basia Newman and Julia Cili home, leaving Heidi…
The final stretch of The Runner pushes Maia Marten into the choice the Caller has been preparing her for all day. With Noah’s life seemingly dependent on her obedience, Maia reaches Tafa, raises the gun and fires, apparently completing the assassination she has spent the entire film trying to avoid. For a moment, the movie…
Reacher Season 4 Episode 6 leaves Jack Reacher in a position we rarely see him in: on his knees, surrounded, and seemingly out of options. After spending most of the season running through assassins, government operatives and corrupt officials, Reacher finally meets a group capable of overpowering him through sheer numbers. The ending of Plum…
Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 5 ends with AFC Richmond losing 3-2 to Chelsea, Alice Chilton being suspended, and both Keeley and Rebecca nursing broken hearts. On paper, almost everyone has failed at something. Richmond loses the biggest match of its season so far, Keeley cannot fill the stadium despite selling the tickets, Alice loses…
t’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 18 Episode 4 turns what should be a simple trip to a Jamiroquai concert into another disaster for the Gang. Their attempt to recreate the 1990s leaves them without smartphones, reliable navigation or functioning transportation, eventually stranding them near a homeless encampment. By the ending, Dee has accidentally consumed…
The Traitors Ireland Season 2 wastes no time paying off Episode 1’s two cliffhangers. Edelle is revealed as the mysterious fourth Traitor, and her first responsibility is brutal: she chooses Emma as the season’s first murder victim. Edelle’s promotion does not last long, however, because Laura becomes convinced she is behaving suspiciously and helps send…
Adele Zaikman is officially the winner of Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro Season 1. After eight weeks of auditions, teaching challenges and increasingly difficult choreography tests, the judges selected Adele over runner-up AJ Pritchard and third-place finalist Selena Hamilton. Her victory gives her the prize the entire competition was built around: a professional…
President Curtis Episode 6, Hollow, begins with an American power crisis and ends with Curtis imposing an AI porn tax, but the ridiculous solution only arrives after his attempt to find unlimited energy nearly makes everything worse. Curtis rejects Dr. Keel’s suggestion that Americans simply reduce electricity use and instead travels into Hollow Earth looking…
Furious saves its most important twist for the final minutes of Season 1. Catherine Grace reaches Jay Easton’s house expecting to confront the man tied to years of exploitation, but she is not ultimately the person who kills him. Alice Black is. After Jay recognizes Alice from the disturbing video in his collection, Alice deliberately…
Lanterns Episode 3 largely steps away from the Rushville investigation to explain how John Stewart spent most of his life preparing for a job he was never guaranteed to receive. By the end, however, the Guardians finally choose him, and Guardian Lianna reveals something Hal Jordan does not know: John is being considered as Hal’s…
The Traitors Ireland returns to Slane Castle with 23 new players, but Season 2 wastes very little time before making its first major change to the game. Siobhán McSweeney initially selects Fionula, Páraic K and Carla as the three Traitors, only to reveal later that the selection process is not actually finished. The premiere also…
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 Episode 6, Genesis, abandons the ruined Manhattan viewers know for something the franchise has never tried on this scale. Maggie and Negan meet as strangers in a present-day New York where the zombie apocalypse never happened, Beth Greene is alive, and Glenn’s murder never became the defining event…
