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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…
MobLand begins with Harry Da Souza cleaning up other people’s problems, but by the end of Season 1, even he cannot keep the Harrigans together. What starts as a missing-person problem involving Richie Stevenson’s son Tommy develops into a gang war, an international criminal dispute and, finally, a struggle over who should control the Harrigan…
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…
Netflix’s The Doll begins with Stanisław Wokulski returning to Warsaw as a very different man from the one who left. War has made him wealthy, but money has not erased his old sense that the aristocracy occupies a world permanently closed to people like him. Rather than simply enjoying his new position, he fixes almost…
Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7, “Yes & Baby,” picks up after the New Year’s break with the Lady Greyhounds discovering that a new calendar year has done very little to solve their old problems. Lizzie is once again disappointed by her ex, Gemma has to choose between training and a promising law internship interview,…
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…
Netflix’s Stolen Heartbeats, originally titled En coma, moves unusually fast even by thriller standards. Its short-form episodes compress a medical conspiracy, a supernatural connection and several overlapping relationships into only a few minutes at a time. At the center is Anabel Roldán, who is left in a coma while people around her begin making decisions…
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…
Apple TV’s Slow Horses began with a simple idea: MI5 agents who make career-ending mistakes are not always fired. Some are sent to Slough House, a deliberately miserable administrative outpost where Jackson Lamb presides over a collection of spies the Service would rather keep out of sight. Five seasons later, those same supposed failures have…
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.…
