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Joe and Angela spend most of The Invite behaving like two people who have forgotten why they chose each other. Their dinner with Piña and Hawk strips away the excuses until both admit that staying together for their daughter, Maggie, may no longer be enough. They even seem ready to end the marriage. Then Joe…
For most of The Beach House Murders, Sarah Brewer has one terrible certainty hanging over her life: her ex-husband Miles attacked her, nearly killed her and went to prison for it. Then an obsessive stalker appears at her beach house and casually blows that certainty apart by claiming he was responsible for the assault. Sarah…
A24’s Tony ends by giving its 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) something he has spent most of the summer avoiding: responsibility. After the Flagship is damaged by fire, Tony and Sal organize a beach cookout supposedly to raise money for Chef, although their original plan is to pocket the proceeds themselves. Tony backs out of…
The Strangers: Chapter 2 spends most of its running time keeping Maya Lucas (Madelaine Petsch) in the same miserable position she occupied in the first film: wounded, isolated and reacting to killers who always seem to arrive one step ahead of her. The finale finally changes that equation. Maya not only survives another night in…
My Life with the Walter Boys Season 3 ends with Jackie Howard’s romantic life somehow becoming even more complicated, but the biggest cliffhanger has nothing to do with who she kisses. Cole Walter spends much of the season pushing Jackie away because he convinces himself that he does not belong in the future she wants.…
Sugar Season 2 closes by solving the case that carried most of the season, only to reveal that John Sugar’s real mystery was much closer to home. Ji Moon is finally safe, Vega’s criminal network is exposed, and the people who helped protect that operation begin facing consequences. Yet Sugar barely has time to enjoy…
Silo Season 3 Episode 6, “The Drive,” finally gives Juliette something she has been missing for much of the season: her memory. Unfortunately, remembering the truth and having the freedom to act on it are two very different things. Juliette now understands how Silo 18 might survive a poisonous gas attack, but the information she…
The Challenge: Cutthroat wastes little time pretending its three-team format will create unity. The season 42 premiere divides 24 competitors into Blue, Orange, and Gray, gives each group a captain, then immediately introduces rules designed to make those leaders unpopular. That is the real promise of Cutthroat. Winning challenges matters, but so does surviving the…
The disturbing phone call at the end of The Shards premiere suggested that the Trawler had begun moving closer to Bret’s life. Episode 2, “Don’t You Want Me,” confirms something worse. The killer, or whoever is imitating him, has found the relationship Bret is most desperate to conceal. Matt Kellner disappears after receiving anonymous calls…
The Shards does not gently introduce viewers to Bret Easton Ellis’ version of 1981 Los Angeles. It opens with teenage Bret becoming transfixed by a beautiful stranger during a screening of The Shining, follows that encounter with the brutal murder of a young woman, and then spends the rest of the premiere bringing those two…
By the time the rain begins swallowing Macondo, the town has already survived enough history for several lifetimes. War has exhausted it. The railroad has connected it to the wider world, only for that connection to invite exploitation. The banana company has transformed progress into something much uglier. Meanwhile, the Buendías continue repeating the emotional…
The finale of Sterling Point turns what looks like a fight over real estate into a much more personal argument about who gets to leave the past behind. Connor sees Gordon’s island as a fortune waiting to be collected. Ramona sees a home contaminated by grief, betrayal, and secrets. Annie, who arrived as the outsider,…
