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Less of a Stranger spends much of its story showing Jan Borysewicz fighting anyone who attempts to decide what his life should look like. His father doubts music can provide him with a future, the political system places limits on artistic freedom, and the music business eventually presents its own demands once Lady Pank becomes…
Netflix’s Who Is Martin Mull? is built around a question that sounds simple until the documentary begins trying to answer it. Martin Mull was recognizable to several generations as a comedian and actor, from Fernwood 2 Night and Clue to Roseanne, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Arrested Development, but those credits only explain part of…
Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie” begins with a story almost everyone thinks they know, then spends eight episodes quietly preparing to take it somewhere Stephen King’s original novel never did. Prime Video’s first television-series adaptation follows Summer H. Howell’s Carrie White from an intensely sheltered childhood into public school, where social media turns an already difficult adolescence…
The Challenge: Cutthroat Season 42 Episode 11 arrives with the final getting close enough for every decision to feel expensive. Tori Deal and Adrienne Naylor already secured permanent captaincy and guaranteed final spots in Episode 10, but the rest of their teams are still fighting for survival. Underwear Gate begins with a communication-heavy daily, moves…
Small Prophets begins with a man who has become very good at living the same day over and over again. Michael Sleep works at a DIY store, keeps largely to himself, visits his elderly father Brian and returns each evening to a house that feels suspended in another time. Seven years earlier, his partner Clea…
CBS expands the “NCIS” universe again with “NCIS: New York,” but its series premiere wisely relies on a familiar face to introduce an otherwise new corner of the franchise. LL COOL J returns as Sam Hanna, the veteran agent viewers followed for years on “NCIS: Los Angeles,” and his arrival in New York is much…
Apple TV’s “Last Seen” reaches its Season 1 finale with the mystery of Maggie Ridley’s disappearance largely solved but the emotional consequences still unfolding. Episode 6, “The Choice,” picks up after Henry escapes with Sarah and the badly injured Jenna, while Ian forces Donald to help him find where his brother is heading. What follows…
Best Medicine Season 2 Episode 3, “Crate Expectations,” takes one of Port Wenn’s strangest traditions and turns it into an unexpectedly important day for Martin Best. The town is preparing for its annual lobster crate race, a competition Martin would happily avoid considering his embarrassing childhood history with it. Instead, the event brings him two…
“Ted Lasso” Season 4 reaches its finale with AFC Richmond already celebrating what the Lady Greyhounds have accomplished, but the club itself is facing a much more uncertain future. Mae Green’s death hangs over everyone, Zelda Southport is close to gaining control of Richmond, Roy Kent has a major career decision to make, and Ted…
Apple TV’s “Brothers” has spent much of its first season asking whether Matthew and Woody’s lifelong friendship could hide a biological connection, but Episode 4 finally pushes that mystery beyond rumors and family memories. Woody and Olive are no longer simply trying to get Ma Mac to talk. They are looking for something that could…
Slow Horses Season 6 Episode 4, titled “Lost and Found,” brings several of the season’s mysteries closer together. Jackson Lamb is still trying to understand why former Slough House personnel are being targeted, while River Cartwright, Sid Baker and JK Coe remain on the move with two persistent operatives following them. At the same time,…
BBC’s The Reluctant Vampire spends its first season turning a simple identity crisis into an increasingly complicated family secret. Lenny Rush plays Valentine, or Val, a teenager raised as the heir to a vampire family who discovers that his inability to behave like the rest of his relatives has a straightforward explanation: he is actually…
