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Ben Merrick barely appears in the opening mystery of Reacher Season 4, yet by the time Episode 3 ends, his absence may be one of its most alarming loose ends. Anna Merrick’s brother Jacob initially treats Ben’s silence as unusual but not necessarily catastrophic. College students miss calls, football players disappear into their own lives,…
Lila Hoth enters Reacher Season 4 with the kind of story Jack Reacher has difficulty ignoring. She says she has leukemia, needs to locate her biological father for a bone marrow match, and believes Congressman John Sampson is that man. Anna Merrick was supposedly helping her prove it before dying on the Philadelphia subway. By…
Helaena’s finished embroidery in the House of the Dragon Season 3 finale is not simply a record of the war. Its final images reveal that Helaena has been sewing her dragon dreams into cloth, including her own death and a disturbing vision of Rhaenyra on the Iron Throne surrounded by fire, dragons and suffering. The…
Ulf White enters the Battle of Tumbleton having already betrayed Rhaenyra, but by the time Silverwing finishes breathing fire over the city, Ulf no longer behaves like a loyal Green either. He attacks Rhaenyra’s soldiers as Ormund Hightower ordered, then turns his fury loose on Tumbleton itself, ultimately burning the section of the walls where…
Aegon II has every reason to want Aemond punished when the brothers finally meet again in the House of the Dragon Season 3 finale. Aemond deliberately tried to kill him, took power in his absence and had little reason to expect mercy once Aegon returned with Sunfyre. Yet Aegon does not execute him. The simplest…
When Maggie gives her son the old pocket watch in The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 Episode 3, she is handing him much more than a surviving piece of the old world. The watch is a Greene family heirloom that Hershel Greene once gave to Glenn Rhee as a sign that he accepted Glenn’s…
Dillard’s private conversation with Titicaca at the end of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 Episode 3 is supposed to make viewers question what they just heard. For now, there is no confirmation that Titicaca can actually talk. The scene makes it appear that the chained walker responds to Dillard, but the stronger explanation…
Kanan barely gives the two young boys who approach him in the Raising Kanan finale a chance. They want to work with him, but he dismisses them as too young and essentially tells them to come back later. For longtime Power viewers, the joke is knowing just how consequential those kids will become. They are…
Jukebox‘s final cruelty toward Kanan does not end when she kills Raq. At the diner, Juke tells him that his mother never truly loved him and claims Raq begged her to kill Kanan instead. That is a lie. Raq never makes that request. Her confrontation with Jukebox is almost entirely wordless, and immediately before her…
Jukebox walking into Raq’s home with a gun is not the revenge plan she originally had in mind. In the Power Book III: Raising Kanan series finale, Juke kills Raq because she realizes that taking Kanan’s life would actually be the easier punishment. Kanan killed Marvin, Jukebox’s father, and she wants him to understand what…
The most confusing thing about Inside the Trustor Scandal may not be Joachim Posener’s disappearance. It is the arithmetic. Depending on which stage of the Trustor affair is being discussed, viewers encounter figures around 478 million, 620 million, 730 million or even 770 million Swedish kronor. Then comes another twist: hundreds of millions were later…
Watching Joachim Posener speak openly in Netflix’s Inside the Trustor Scandal creates an obvious question. How can the man Swedish investigators regarded as the central figure in one of the country’s most notorious financial scandals appear on camera nearly three decades later without ever having been convicted for it? The answer is less dramatic than…
