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A Tale of Two Cities builds much of its central drama around two men who could hardly be more different. Charles Darnay is an idealistic French emigre trying to distance himself from the family he was born into, while Sydney Carton is a brilliant but self-destructive English lawyer who has largely stopped expecting anything meaningful…
The storming of the Bastille gives A Tale of Two Cities Episode 3 its largest historical set piece, but Thérèse Defarge is interested in something more personal than the fall of the prison itself. While revolutionaries take control of the fortress, she makes her way deeper inside and eventually reaches the place connected to Alexandre…
“Deadliest Catch” has always relied on cameras placed throughout fishing vessels to capture events as they happen, including moments when conditions on the Bering Sea suddenly become dangerous. That created an unusually sensitive question heading into the Season 22 finale, because cameras were filming aboard the Aleutian Lady when 25-year-old deckhand Todd Meadows went overboard…
My Sad Dead never treats Ema’s ability as a puzzle waiting for a scientific solution. Mercedes Moran’s retired doctor has seen and heard the dead for as long as she can remember, and the four episodes gradually reveal that her matter-of-fact attitude comes from decades of experience rather than uncertainty about whether the ghosts exist.…
Julie initially looks like the character My Sad Dead wants viewers to question most. When she arrives in Buenos Aires with her parents, she has already spent years moving between doctors, treatment programs and institutions because she claims to see and communicate with friends nobody else can perceive. Her parents Lidia and Tomas are exhausted…
Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 Episode 2 gives Maisri another vision that initially appears to be about Julia’s infant son, but the details point much farther into the Fraser family’s future. Lord Lovat hears references to roses, a child, the Fraser line and a future crown and naturally assumes the seer is confirming…
American Horror Story has turned houses, hotels and institutions into characters of their own before, and Season 13 wastes little time adding another ominous address to that list. Ben DeSoto arrives at the Apollyon expecting nothing more unusual than a difficult hospice assignment, but the first three episodes gradually reveal that the Manhattan building is…
Tom Benton initially seems like the person capable of opening exactly the professional door Olive Smith has been searching for in Prime Video’s The Love Hypothesis. Olive has spent years developing research that matters deeply to her, and Tom’s position at Harvard makes his interest in that work appear like a major step forward. Because…
Best Medicine spent its first season establishing an unusual contradiction at the center of Dr. Martin Best. He is an exceptionally skilled physician and former Boston surgeon, yet the sight of blood can trigger a severe panic response. Martin managed to keep that problem largely private in Port Wenn, relying on Elaine Denton when a…
Oleksandra Balakin has spent most of Lioness Season 3 existing in the uncomfortable space between valuable intelligence source and suspected manipulator. She helps lead the CIA to Alexis Yurimov, provides information that exposes foreign networks inside the United States and receives Witness Protection in return, only for Joe’s kidnapping to place every decision she made…
Catie Norboe and Josh Atkins made it through their 90 Day Fiance Season 12 wedding, but the Tell All quickly revealed that marriage had not solved the problems viewers watched build throughout the season. One seemingly minor detail became particularly revealing when Josh admitted he is paying $800 every month for a separate office. The…
Rasit Kebabci and Thomas Dintino arrived at the 90 Day Fiance Season 12 Tell All as members of completely different couples, yet one of Part 1’s biggest arguments ended up happening between them. What began as a joke about Thomas’ sensitivity to fragrances quickly became uncomfortable when Rasit deliberately used that sensitivity to provoke a…
