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‘Scrubs’ Season 2 opens with Sacred Heart looking familiar on the surface, but several of its most important relationships have changed. J.D. is finding happiness with Charlie after his divorce, Tosh and Asher are trying to figure out what being a couple means at work, and Elliot discovers a confidence that even she did not…
Fox’s “The Floor” Season 6 continues its Season of Champions with 92 contestants still occupying the grid after the eight eliminations in the premiere. These players have arrived with championships, records and competition wins behind them, but those accomplishments offer little protection once Rob Lowe activates the Randomizer and another category comes into play. Episode…
Netflix’s The Arena begins with 38 amateur MMA fighters arriving with the same professional ambition, but its first five episodes quickly establish that surviving this competition requires much more than simply having the best record on paper. Ciryl Gane, Cédric Doumbè and Benoît Saint-Denis put 19 men and 19 women through physical tests, unusual elimination…
ITV’s Winter spends most of its first season allowing Dr Ethan Winter to believe two contradictory things at once. Robert Parker has been convicted in connection with the death of Simone Edwards, Ethan’s fiancee, yet the evidence Ethan encounters increasingly suggests that Simone’s case never really ended. By Episode 6, the individual investigations have almost…
Average Joe Season 2 saves some of its biggest answers for Episode 8, “Teddy’s Dead; That’s What I Said,” but it also makes sure Joe Washington’s troubles are nowhere close to finished. The finale brings the Cape Town story to a head as Joe, Imani, Leon, Cathy and Touch face Sipho, while the truth…
The Challenge: Cutthroat Season 42 Episode 10 does away with the normal daily challenge and puts the two people who have spent the season enjoying captain protection directly in danger. After weeks of controlling nominations and avoiding elimination themselves, Adrienne Naylor and Tori Deal learn that captaincy comes with one final test before either woman…
Paul Greengrass spends most of The Uprising keeping Andrew Garfield’s protagonist grounded in the harsh realities of 1381 England. Ploughman is not introduced as a legendary warrior or famous outlaw. He is an ordinary farmer who has already endured enormous personal loss and gradually becomes caught up in a movement much larger than himself. That…
Best Medicine Season 2 Episode 2, “Breakin’ In Is Hard to Do,” turns what initially looks like Port Wenn’s latest piece of harmless chaos into an unusually personal problem for Louisa. Someone breaks into the town pharmacy and takes a collection of medical supplies, but mixed among them is Louisa’s time-sensitive fertility medication. Suddenly, Martin…
Women in Blue Season 2 reaches its finale with “Goyo,” an episode that finally connects the Executioner investigation to the corruption the Azules have been circling all season. Aldo Herrera’s final hours leave behind another confession, Goyo and Macaria’s partnership becomes clearer, and a missing section of Filiberto Guerra’s recording points the women toward the…
Apple TV’s “Last Seen” finally stops withholding the story at the center of Maggie Ridley’s disappearance in Season 1 Episode 5, “The Prophet.” After four episodes built around Ian Ridley’s belief that Sarah Reid is really his missing daughter, the penultimate episode goes back 15 years and explains how Henry and Jenna became a family,…
Slow Horses Season 6 Episode 3, titled “Resurrection,” brings several familiar faces back into Jackson Lamb’s orbit as the Blake’s Grave protocol forces current and former Slough House personnel into hiding. Apple describes the episode as one in which former Slow Horses return while danger closes in and Diana Taverner deals with the consequences of…
Apple TV’s “Brothers” spent its first two episodes turning a decades-old family rumor into Woody Harrelson’s private obsession. Episode 3, titled “Little Woody,” changes the nature of that investigation. After Ma Mac made it clear that digging into Clive Harrelson’s past could have consequences, Woody now has to search for the truth without giving Matthew…
