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Slough House has always occupied an awkward place inside MI5. Jackson Lamb’s agents technically belong to the Service, but the entire point of the department is to keep failed or inconvenient officers far away from the Park. Season 6 takes that institutional exile much further by making Slough House appear to disappear altogether. The mystery…
Dani Rojas is not leaving Richmond for Newcastle, at least not because of the offer presented in Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7. Dani’s agent, Derrick, tells Rebecca and Leslie that his client has interest from another club and eventually names Newcastle as the team supposedly trying to sign him. The threat initially puts Richmond…
Slow Horses Season 6 reaches back to the show’s earliest days almost immediately, bringing Struan Loy back into the story after an absence of several seasons. Paul Higgins’ character was part of Jackson Lamb’s original Slough House team, but unlike River, Roddy, Catherine and some of the other familiar faces, Struan disappeared from the series…
Erin Beaumont’s relationship with Roy Kent ends surprisingly calmly in Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7. What begins as another visit to check Roy’s injured knee turns into an uncomfortable conversation about Keeley, with Roy spending so much time talking about his ex that Erin finally says what he has been avoiding. She believes Roy…
Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 7 ends with Ted deleting his completed Bantr profile and returning to the theatre to ask the unnamed stage manager on a date. She turns him down because she is already seeing someone, leaving Ted single and still unaware of her name. The rejection, however, is not really a setback.…
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…
The Gilded Age Season 4 is bringing several new faces into its already sprawling New York society, but Adrienne Warren’s arrival is particularly interesting because her character is tied directly to Peggy Scott. Warren will play Ava, a previously unseen member of Peggy’s family who enters the story as Peggy’s relationship with Dr. William Kirkland…
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…
After more than two decades of CIA disasters, alien disguises and increasingly strange Smith family adventures, American Dad! reached its 400th episode with a story appropriately centered on Stan Smith. “400?!” turns Stan’s latest CIA assignment into a crisis over something he has rarely doubted: his own importance. He nearly dies during his 400th mission,…
Paddy’s Pub has spent most of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia operating less like a functioning bar than a clubhouse the Gang occasionally allows customers to enter. Dennis, Mac, Charlie, Dee and Frank routinely abandon the place in the middle of the day, close it whenever a scheme becomes more interesting and show little concern…
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…
