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HBO and Sky’s War wastes little time establishing exactly what kind of legal battle it intends to tell. At the center of the premiere are Hollywood star Carla Duval and her husband, Morgan Henderson, the enormously successful founder of social media platform Zephyr. Their marriage still looks presentable enough from the outside, but Carla has…
Dark Matter Season 2 Episode 6, What the Universe Is Made Of, returns to Jason, Daniela and Charlie after Episode 5’s detour into the life of another Jason variant. The Dessen family is still fractured, but this episode gives each of them something outside the family to hold onto. Daniela retreats to someone she considers…
Disney’s Coven Academy begins with Briar Roberts arriving in New Orleans believing she has simply been sent away because of the trouble she caused back home. She soon discovers that Crescent Veil is hiding an entirely different purpose, one connected to witches, vampires, and the mystery surrounding her missing mother. The premiere introduces Briar to…
The Celebrity Traitors returns for Season 2 with exactly the kind of opening that makes Claudia Winkleman’s castle such a difficult place to play a sensible game. Twenty-one celebrities arrive knowing that some of them will eventually be asked to deceive everyone else, but the premiere wastes little time making the usual rules feel unstable.…
Season 25 of Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen” is built around a generation of chefs who have grown up watching Gordon Ramsay’s competition, but knowing the show and surviving its kitchen are two very different things. Episode 2, titled “A Tale of Two Kitchens,” brings that distinction into focus as the contestants finally move beyond signature dishes…
Season 2 of Paramount+’s ‘Sacrifice’ opens with Daniella Hernandez trying to rebuild after the Jameson club fire while almost every part of her life remains unstable. Blackgammon is under financial pressure, Ruby is still recovering, Daniella’s back injury continues to trouble her, and the mystery surrounding her parents is far from finished. Her relationship with…
Netflix’s East of Eden reaches its finale after decades of rivalry, rejection, love, and resentment within the Trask family. Cathy has become Kate and built a powerful life in Salinas, Adam has spent years raising Cal and Aron after losing the woman he once idealized, and the same struggle between two brothers that shaped Adam…
M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin spends most of its running time forcing Andrew, Eric, and their young daughter Wen to answer a question that sounds impossible. Four strangers insist that the family must willingly sacrifice one of its own members or humanity will be destroyed. Andrew sees an elaborate conspiracy, while Eric gradually…
Aaron Falvey’s Battle Cabin begins as a contained survival story centered on Kellan, a man trying to hold on to his pacifist beliefs after an EMP attack and the collapse of organized society have transformed rural New Zealand into dangerous territory. That position becomes increasingly difficult to maintain when his wife, Melinda, falls seriously ill…
Netflix’s Medusa spends its second season making almost every member of the Hidalgo family look capable of betraying the others. Bárbara Hidalgo returns to the center of Medusa’s corporate battle while Detective Danger Carmelo follows a separate trail of attacks, hidden money and people willing to do almost anything to keep their secrets buried. By…
ABC’s “Shark Tank” returns for Season 18 with “Beast Mode,” a premiere built around four businesses that could hardly be more different from one another. Wedding Weekender brings old-school camcorders back into modern weddings, The Caulking Finger turns a contractor’s everyday problem into a patented tool, Ball 2 attempts to combine physical play with AI,…
After the uncertainty surrounding Dr. Cox’s condition in the Season 2 premiere, ‘Scrubs‘ Episode 2 begins with some genuinely encouraging news. J.D.’s revised approach is working, Cox is feeling more like himself, and his illness is described as being in remission. Unfortunately, getting better introduces an entirely different problem when the cost of continuing his…
