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Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 returns to Hawkins at a point when Joyce Byers has every reason to keep a close eye on her son. Will has only recently escaped the influence of the Mind Flayer, the gate beneath Hawkins Lab has been closed, and the Byers family is still living in Hawkins. Yet when…
Nazlı’s arrival in Not a Stranger initially seems almost accidental. She becomes useful to Funda, bonds naturally with Mavi and gradually finds a place inside a household that desperately needs stability. By the end of Season 1, however, it becomes clear that Nazlı’s investment in the family is far more personal than Funda ever realized.…
Netflix’s Not a Stranger spends much of its first season placing viewers inside Funda’s increasingly uncertain perspective. Her memory becomes unreliable, her behavior begins to worry the people around her, and Nazlı, who initially enters the household as someone Funda trusts, becomes indispensable to the family. The finale changes the meaning of much of what…
Daniel Fischer appeared to be finished at the end of Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Season 1. His secret experiments had already unleashed catastrophic consequences in Hawkins, and his encounter with the creature created by those experiments seemed to provide a suitably grim ending for the former Hawkins Lab scientist. Season 2 reveals that Daniel’s…
Hawkins has spent decades remembering William Dandridge as a monster. Better known as Bloodaxe Bill, the miner is blamed for the 1892 silver mine explosion that killed workers and helped shape the town’s history. Season 2 of Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 gradually reveals that almost everything Hawkins believes about him is wrong. The mystery…
The mysteries running through Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Season 2 gradually turn out to be parts of the same plan. The strange blue flowers, the Hate Sprites, the supposed ghost haunting Hawkins and the wooden creatures beneath the town all trace back to someone the Hawkins Investigators Club believed was gone for good. By…
Jack Reacher has survived brutal fights before, but Reacher Season 4 Episode 8 pushes his durability further than almost anything the series has shown. By the time he faces Lila and Amisha, he has already fought his way through several armed men and suffered injuries that would stop most people long before the final confrontation…
Tamara Green and Jacob Merrick spend most of Reacher Season 4 with much bigger problems than romance. Anna’s death, Ben’s disappearance and the conspiracy surrounding the flash drive keep pushing them deeper into danger. Still, the series quietly develops a personal connection between the two along the way. The finale does not forget that storyline.…
South Park does not directly confirm that Randy Marsh killed Kenny in the Season 29 premiere, but the ending very strongly implicates Randy or someone in his cycling gang in Kenny’s death. Kenny’s e-bike explodes shortly after he meets the adult cyclists and tries to negotiate peace between them and the younger riders. Stan assumes…
Anyone starting South Park Season 29 is immediately confronted with a change that is much bigger than a throwaway background joke. The theme song now says “South America,” residents repeatedly use that name for their Colorado town, and even the show’s official branding has adopted it. The characters have not relocated to the continent of…
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…
Detective Hudson Riley becomes one of Frances Neagley’s closest allies in Prime Video’s Neagley after Tommy Crane’s suspicious death brings their investigations together. Played by Greyston Holt, Hudson is a Chicago police detective carrying an uncomfortable family legacy. His relatives have been involved in organized crime for generations, leaving Hudson with the nickname “Rats” and…
