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Lioness Season 3 Episode 8, The Unraveling, begins with Joe McNamara physically free but psychologically unable to leave the mission behind. Her rescue in the previous episode has not answered the question that matters most to her: who knew enough about a senior CIA officer to place a bounty on her, organize an abduction near…
Anna Pigeon Episode 7, “The Three Matt Skweikis,” briefly looks as though it has wandered into science fiction. Anna and Frederick Stanton are driving through the park while arguing about UFO sightings when a naked man, glowing an unnatural green-blue color, suddenly appears in the road. He has no idea who he is, claims he…
Dark Matter Season 2 Episode 4 finds nearly every major character trying to decide whether another world can actually fix the damage caused by the Box. Jason and Daniela have technically found a place where their family could settle, Amanda and Ryan are still trying to put people back where they belong, while Jason2 is…
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe Episode 9 takes the group’s multiverse problem somewhere Stuart should theoretically have an advantage: inside a comic book. What initially looks like another bizarre trap quickly becomes an escape mission through Gotham City and Central City, complete with the Flash, Mr. Freeze, the Cosmic Treadmill and another intervention from…
South Park returns for Season 29 with “South American Biker Gangs,” an episode that begins as a fight over e-bikes and gradually turns into a turf war between children and middle-aged cyclists. Cartman predictably starts the trouble, but the story eventually belongs to Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, whose excitement over their new bikes puts them…
Season 6 of Slow Horses opens with Slough House facing a threat unlike the political conspiracies and terrorist plots that have previously dragged Jackson Lamb’s team into action. This time, someone appears to be working through the unit’s past, finding people who once belonged to Slough House and eliminating them one by one. The timing…
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has never needed much encouragement to turn a changing social habit into a crisis for Paddy’s Pub, and Season 18 Episode 6 finds the Gang confronting one that actually threatens their livelihood. “The War on Alcohol” begins when a salesman introduces them to Shallow Shade Lager, a locally brewed beer…
Saskia Noort’s The Dinner Club already had all the ingredients Netflix needed for a glossy psychological thriller: affluent couples, extramarital affairs, financial secrets, a suspicious fire and a friendship group held together by appearances. The Perfect Lie keeps that skeleton, but the seven-part adaptation is far less interested in reproducing the novel scene for scene.…
A Tale of Two Cities Episode 2, titled “Malunion,” finally gives Lucie Manette the reunion she has spent most of her life believing was impossible. Her father Alexandre is alive, but nearly two decades inside the Bastille have left him so psychologically damaged that bringing him home proves considerably more difficult than simply finding him.…
Vigil Season 3 leaves Svalbard behind for its finale, but the conspiracy becomes even more dangerous once Amy Silva and Shen Jia reach Scotland. Episode 6 reveals that the fight over Jia’s biofuel was never simply Britain against China or the West against Russia. British intelligence and the United States have both been working to…
Vigil Season 3 Episode 5 finally reveals what Shen Jia discovered beneath the Arctic ice, but the scientific breakthrough is only half the story. Amy Silva and Kirsten Longacre also discover that the investigation into Daniel Hodge’s murder has been pointing in the wrong direction. Henrik Becken has plenty to answer for, but he is…
Lioness Season 3 Episode 7 finally gives Joe McNamara something she has been fighting for since her abduction: a real chance to get back to her people. Kiss the Girls turns the rescue operation from a string of frustrating near misses into an open confrontation, as the CIA’s disruption of Babat’s escape plan forces his…
