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Ted Lasso Season 4 does not begin at Nelson Road or inside Rebecca Welton’s office. It begins in Kansas City, where Ted has everything he once believed he needed: his son nearby, familiar streets, family connections and distance from the emotional chaos of English football. The trouble is that Ted no longer seems fully at…
Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada begins as a bleak story about survival in a Cornish fishing village and gradually transforms into something far stranger. Nick Dyer (George MacKay) and Liam (Callum Turner) are both desperate enough to accept work aboard the Rose of Nevada, a fishing boat that has mysteriously returned three decades after disappearing…
The Season 1 finale left The Librarians: The Next Chapter with two useful questions: What does Merlin want, and can this newly official team handle the responsibility it fought to earn? “And the Burning Heart” answers the second more convincingly than the first. The Season 2 premiere turns the group’s hidden fears into food for…
“Flash Flood” is the kind of episode that appears to slow the investigation down while quietly changing almost everything underneath it. Catherine does not add another straightforward body to her trail. Alice does not dramatically corner a suspect. The FBI does not celebrate a clean breakthrough. Instead, Furious Episode 4 pulls its characters into increasingly…
House of the Dragon spends most of its penultimate Season 3 episode making everyone look cornered, then quietly reveals that one of the most dangerous moves on the board has been happening over tea. Aemond loses control of Harrenhal and nearly dies at Alicent’s hand. Rhaena’s hunt for Vhagar opens another fracture between Daemon and…
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 is no longer only about who controls Manhattan, but what kind of society can survive there. After Midtown’s destruction and the Croat’s death, Maggie protects the hospital settlement with Renata. Hershel is beside her, Armstrong is preparing to return to New Babylon, and Negan has withdrawn into Dillard’s…
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 is no longer simply about surviving Manhattan. It is about deciding what should replace the powers that nearly destroyed it. The premiere reunited Maggie and Hershel, brought the Croat’s former captives to Renata and Luis’ fortified hospital, and left Negan living apart at Dillard’s walker-filled bar. With the…
Rebecca Zlotowski’s “A Private Life,” also titled “Vie privée,” begins with a psychotherapist losing control of the one thing she trusts most: her own interpretation of other people. Dr. Lilian Steiner has built her career around listening, recording and reviewing. Yet when her patient Paula Cohen-Solal dies, Lilian cannot accept that the answer might exist…
“Soulm8te” takes the M3GAN universe in a more adult and considerably messier direction. Directed by Kate Dolan, the sci-fi thriller swaps killer-doll camp for grief, obsession, and the unsettling idea of an artificial partner designed to become whatever its owner needs. Lily Sullivan plays Sara, an advanced companion android brought home by widowed engineer David…
Most horror stories about new motherhood ask whether the mother is imagining the danger around her child. “Nightborn” takes a nastier route. Saga sees the danger perfectly well. The people around her simply keep explaining it away until the baby has bitten through skin, rejected ordinary food and begun answering to something ancient in the…
Netflix’s Brazilian fight drama Wrath begins with a badly wounded man found near a dump, a bullet fragment in his head and one name on his lips. Six episodes later, he is standing in a packed arena, facing the fighter who replaced him in one life while his forgotten family watches him reclaim another. The…
Kevin Lee and Claudette Zepeda win the two semifinal cook-offs in Guy’s Grocery Games Season 42 Episode 8, earning the right to represent South Korea and Mexico in the Global Games finale. Kevin eliminates Gabriele “Gabe” Bertaccini after a seafood challenge restricted to the market’s even-numbered aisles. Claudette then defeats Viet Pham with a hot-and-cold…
