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Charlie Kelly has spent two decades being treated as the Gang’s resident idiot, so “The Gang Gets Tested” takes great pleasure in putting him in front of actual academics and watching their confidence disappear. What begins as a routine neuropsychological evaluation becomes stranger every time Charlie answers a question. He says he can smell colors,…
The idea that Catherine could secretly be Alice Black’s daughter sounds tempting after “Furious” Episode 7 reveals that Alice became pregnant at only 14, but the available evidence does not support that twist. Alice confirms the teenage pregnancy during her confrontation with Amy, while Marshall’s mother separately tells Danny that Alice had lost a baby…
The title of Silo Season 3 Episode 8 sounds like pure science fiction until Per Stensen explains what frightens him more than nuclear war, pandemics or artificial intelligence. “Gray goo” refers to a theoretical nanotechnology catastrophe in which tiny self-replicating machines spread uncontrollably and consume matter as they reproduce. Silo borrows that real speculative idea…
The Revival finale spends its first half looking like it is resolving one nightmare and its second half revealing a much larger one. Blaine Abel’s crusade against the Revivers erupts into violence, Lester Majack finally exposes the truth about Em’s murder, and the experiment that helped trigger Revival Day is pulled into the open. Em…
Revival arrives on Netflix with a finale that very clearly expects the story to continue. Em is secretly alive, Nithiya’s real involvement remains hidden, the Revivers are still living in Wausau, and the creators have several mysteries they deliberately refused to close. That makes a Season 2 feel creatively obvious, but the business answer is…
Vince Young’s football career ended far earlier than anyone expected when he left Texas as one of the most celebrated college quarterbacks of his generation. Today, however, Young has not disappeared from football. At 43, he remains closely connected to the University of Texas, where the athletics department currently lists him as a special assistant.…
Blue Murder Motel may look like the sort of cozy crime series that could have been inspired by an eccentric real motel with an unfortunate history, but the series is not based on a true story. Vinny and Cole Coleman are fictional characters, Mowai Bay is a fictional community, and the murders they investigate were…
Alice and Danny finally admit that they love each other in “Furious” Episode 7, but they do not actually become a couple before the episode ends. Alice makes the first move after waking at home, telling Danny she wants to go with him to the shore and admitting that she should have accepted his earlier…
Blue Murder Motel spends most of its first season presenting Vinny and Cole Coleman as retired Sydney homicide detectives who simply cannot stop solving murders. The finale reveals there was much more behind their move to New Zealand. Cole once spent 18 months undercover inside the dangerous Beckett crime family, only for corrupt former colleague…
The central joke of “Blue Murder Motel” is that Vinny and Cole Coleman are supposed to be finished with police work. The casting makes that joke considerably easier to sell. Michala Banas and Brett Tucker play the married former detectives, reuniting more than two decades after appearing together in “McLeod’s Daughters.” Around them, Jayden Daniels…
“Blue Murder Motel” gives retirement a rather poor success rate. Vanessa “Vinny” Coleman and her husband Peter “Cole” Coleman leave their careers as Australian police detectives behind and move across the Tasman Sea to run a small seaside motel in New Zealand. They have barely settled into their new life when a guest is found…
“Furious” has not confirmed that Jay Easton is Elena’s biological father, but Episode 7 gives the theory enough supporting circumstances that it deserves to be taken seriously. What is confirmed is that Isabel Luna was Elena’s mother, that Isabel surrendered the baby only a few days before her death in 2012, and that Catherine deliberately…
