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Amy Silva spends most of Vigil Season 3 investigating what happened to Professor Vincent Mair and trying to understand why so many governments are interested in Shen Jia. By the finale, however, the case becomes personal and professional in a way Amy cannot avoid. Protecting Jia means directly defying orders from senior officials, and although…
Joe McNamara’s kidnapping in Lioness Season 3 initially seems to have a straightforward explanation. Babat and the men holding her have clear connections to Iran, while the brutality of the operation suggests that Joe is being punished for enemies she made during previous CIA missions. Episode 7, Kiss the Girls, complicates that explanation considerably. Once…
Bethany Lopez has spent much of Anna Pigeon’s first season positioned somewhere between the park community and its central drama. Married to ranger Manny Lopez, she is close enough to Anna’s circle to hear what is happening without appearing to have any direct stake in Jeremiah Paulsen’s battles with the park. Episode 6 finally makes…
Andréa Martel has always been exceptionally good at managing other people’s crises, but Call My Agent! The Movie finds her facing one that cannot be solved with a clever phone call or last-minute casting deal. Five years after ASK closed, Andréa has moved into filmmaking and is preparing her first feature, only to discover that…
Ryan Holder finally gets what he has been chasing when Dark Matter Season 2 Episode 3 brings him back to his original Chicago. His apartment looks exactly right, even down to damage he remembers causing shortly before Jason 2 abandoned him in another reality. Then the impossible becomes even stranger: another Ryan Holder walks through…
Penny returns in ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’ Episode 8 in perhaps her most intimidating form yet. The woman whom Stuart and the others encounter during their court-martial is a major in the military reality and is known locally as “Firing Squad Penny.” She prosecutes the group for desertion, espionage, murder and other offenses…
Netflix’s Crew Girl builds one of its biggest personal conflicts around the two very different boys who enter Teagan Tao’s life at Easton Prep. Josh Regis is wealthy, confident and accustomed to being the center of the rowing program, while Cam Dillinger is the overlooked underdog who has had to fight for virtually every opportunity…
Netflix’s Crew Girl sends Teagan Tao into an entirely new life before she even gets the chance to settle into the story’s rowing drama. When the series begins, Teagan is a talented young single-sculls rower living comfortably in California with her parents, Ella and David Tao. Within a matter of days, her father disappears, federal…
The final minutes of The Shards Season 1 look almost like the beginning of a classic drawing-room mystery. Bret and Robert expect to be questioned separately, each convinced he can persuade police that the other is dangerous. Instead, they enter a room filled with Susan, Thom, Debbie, Liz, Steven and Ryan. Detectives Donaldson and Fregosi…
CT Tamburello is clearly Team Orange’s biggest endurance concern on The Challenge 42, but Episode 7 also provides the strongest evidence yet for why getting rid of him could be a serious mistake. During “Perfect Match,” Orange falls behind largely because CT cannot maintain the running pace of teammates such as Tori Deal, Will Gagnon…
Cory Wharton leaves The Challenge 42 in Episode 7 because of a serious medical emergency involving his three-year-old daughter, Maya. During filming in Thailand, Cory receives a FaceTime call from Taylor Selfridge telling him that Maya’s condition has worsened and that she is being transferred by air to a larger hospital in Texas. Cory then…
Ted and Michelle have spent much of Ted Lasso learning how to remain part of each other’s lives after their marriage ended. Season 4 brings them physically closer again through Henry, but Episode 6 makes their relationship especially interesting when they spend New Year’s Eve together at the Crown & Anchor. Instead of joining Richmond…
