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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…
‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’ Episode 8, officially titled “Spoiler: We’re as Confused as You Are,” picks up immediately after the increasingly complicated multiverse chase from Episode 7. Stuart, Denise, Bert and Barry Kripke are still trying to recover the second machine, particularly the version equipped with the controller they need. Their pursuit sends…
Dark Matter Season 2 Episode 3, “Everything Beautiful, Everything Terrible,” gives Jason Dessen exactly what he claimed to want and then shows why he cannot live with it. His family finally has the beginnings of an ordinary life in the technologically limited Chicago they chose in the previous episode. Charlie is making friends, Daniela is…
Netflix’s Crew Girl gives Teagan Tao a new life at Easton Prep, but its first season does not leave her in anything close to a settled position. She helps transform the school’s struggling boys’ crew, finds herself caught between Josh and Cam, and begins rebuilding after her father’s financial scandal. Then the finale gives her…
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…
Netflix’s The Perfect Lie introduces viewers to a wealthy social circle that initially appears comfortable, polished and unusually close. Karen and her husband Michel move to Bergen and are welcomed into the Dinner Club, where several couples have years of shared history that the newcomers know almost nothing about. The atmosphere changes after a late-night…
Netflix’s ‘Crew Girl’ builds its teen drama around one newcomer stepping into a boat full of boys who have very little interest in being led by her. Miku Martineau stars as Teagan Tao, a gifted 16-year-old rower whose life in California collapses after a scandal involving her family. Teagan and her mother relocate to the…
‘Crew Girl’ may send Teagan Tao to an elite school on America’s East Coast, but the lakes, castle and waterfront town surrounding Easton Prep are actually thousands of miles away. Netflix filmed the first season primarily around Greater Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, with Victoria, Colwood, Sidney and nearby communities standing in…
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…
Bret Easton Ellis spends almost the entire first season of The Shards watching Robert Mallory. He remembers where Robert was, studies what Robert says, compares his movements with the Trawler murders and interprets every contradiction as another crack in Robert’s story. The finale finally gives Robert the opportunity to return the favor. Their confrontation at…
