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Russell T Davies returns to Manchester with Tip Toe, a five-part drama that initially disguises something deeply uneasy as an ordinary dispute between neighbors. Alan Cumming stars as Leo Struthers, the charismatic but slightly adrift owner of Spit & Polish on Canal Street, while David Morrissey plays Clive Goss, the electrician who has lived next…
Outlander: Blood of My Blood has always treated romance and clan politics as inseparable, but Season 2 Episode 3 turns Castle Leoch itself into the center of the story. Titled “Rabbits Don’t Swim,” the episode sends Brian Fraser and Dougal MacKenzie toward the Jacobite campaign while Ellen MacKenzie is left behind with a divided family,…
The Sisters Grimm Season 2 sends Sabrina and Daphne deeper into Ferryport Landing at the exact moment their original reason for coming there starts pulling them in another direction. A year has passed since their parents disappeared, but every new Everafter mystery keeps drawing the sisters further into the town, its secrets, and the responsibilities…
Seduced by His Lies begins with a problem that seems complicated enough on its own. Terri Thorne returns from an extended overseas work trip and discovers Marcus Keller living inside the townhouse she recently purchased. Marcus insists that he legally bought the same property, apparently making both of them victims of an elaborate real estate…
What’s Your Number? turns Ally Darling’s romantic history into a problem she thinks she has to solve mathematically. After reading a magazine article suggesting that women who have been with more than 20 men are less likely to marry, Ally becomes convinced that one of her former boyfriends must secretly be the person she is…
Tyler Perry’s Doing Life begins with two people who have every reason to believe their futures have already been decided for them. Anika is a single mother carrying the weight of her family largely on her own, while Carousel is serving time with a past that continues to define how people see him long after…
Kill Jackie spends much of its first season encouraging Jackie Price to look backward. Someone has reached into the criminal life she abandoned 20 years earlier and put the Seven Demons on her trail, so Jackie naturally assumes that the answer must be buried among the enemies she made before reinventing herself as an art…
Prime Video’s Red Queen Season 2 (Also Known as Reina Roja) initially looks like a contained new case for Antonia Scott and Jon Gutierrez. Their trip to Marbella puts them in the middle of Lola Moreno’s disappearance, Yuri’s dealings with Russian crime boss Orlov, and the arrival of a mysterious figure known as Black Wolf.…
American Horror Story: 13 pulls away from Constance’s supernatural gathering in Episode 5, “Date Night,” and puts Ben DeSoto back at the center of the story. After Episode 4 confirms that Mr. Nas is Satan’s son and the new Antichrist, the series begins suggesting that Ben’s connection to the larger mystery may have started long…
American Horror Story: 13 delivers its biggest crossover episode so far with “The Return of Devil’s Night.” Episode 6 temporarily leaves Ben DeSoto and the Apollyon behind to connect Hotel and Coven, bringing James Patrick March back into the story just as Cordelia Goode becomes increasingly worried about the future of Miss Robichaux’s Academy. The…
American Horror Story: 13 finally starts explaining the mystery surrounding Mr. Nas in Episode 4, “Is That All There Is?” After three episodes filled with biblical imagery, strange returns and Constance Langdon’s carefully arranged gatherings, the story confirms that Nas is far more than an elderly hospice patient. His failing body is part of a…
Apple TV’s ‘Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars’ Season 2 Episode 3, titled ‘Could You Imagine Losing One?,’ brings the Florida restaurants to the moment they have been preparing for. While Calusso and COTOA are still hoping to earn Michelin stars, Jeremy Ford’s Stubborn Seed faces a different kind of pressure. The Miami Beach restaurant already…
