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"Emile thanks you."

Screenshot: Apple TV+ It is time to gather up the threads (and the eggs), and begin the process of bringing things to a close. A temporary close, one most strongly hopes, though Severance has not yet been officially renewed for a third season. (It…

Credit: Apple TV+ Dread was the temper this week—dreading the possibility that such a short episode wouldn’t be as fascinating, as stuffed with meaning and character revelations, as Severance’s usual runtimes allow. But from the very start, “Sweet…

Everyone in this episode is caught in an in-between state, a neither here nor there, neither alive nor dead. I’m just caught between wanting to pick apart every detail and simultaneously feeling like … it’s rude. It’s rude to do that to this poor…

Image: Apple TV+ The corn is very special, and this is all spoilers. So let’s get to it. You know, there was a moment, earlier this season, where I kind of felt for Helena Eagan. She clearly is not in control of her life, no matter what she likes to…

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Well, that was something, wasn’t it? I can make one very definitive statement about a season finale that left me with a lot of mixed feelings: It certainly did some things I did not expect. And the episode signals from the very start that this is no…

“Previously, on my show,” Jen Walters says at the start of this episode, and it’s kind of a necessary reminder. No matter what you’ve been waiting for—and how well that waiting pays off this week—this show belongs to She-Hulk. So why does it feel…

I have a lot of questions about Emil Blonsky. First: Who’s funding “Summer Twilights,” this land of yurts and well-named chickens? Was Blonsky rich? Who found and paid for this prime plot of California real estate? (It doesn’t seem to have been his…

It’s a self-contained wedding episode! With a fourth-wall-breaking joke about how it comes at an inconvenient time because weddings always do! Do they? Don’t you generally get a lot of time to plan to attend a wedding? Did Lulu put this together in…

Welcome to the Pug and Nikki show! “Mean, Green, and Straight Poured Into These Jeans”—written by Dana Schwartz and directed by series newcomer Anu Valia—feels like the shortest She-Hulk episode yet. It’s swift and a little silly (let us just…

Jen Walters has a lot on her plate. If you don’t believe me, please try to pause when she scrolls down her to-do list. You can’t read half of it. It blurs. She scrolls forever. And then, way down the list: “Finish dating profile.” Oh, no. Almost…

Is it just me, or did this episode feel like it had maybe like one too many cups of coffee? Everything goes by very fast in “The People vs. Emil Blonsky,” which squeezes in two trials and a visiting superhero, and lets Jen Walters get in a couple of…

Partway into this week’s episode of She-Hulk, you’re going to have to ask yourself a perhaps surprising question: Self, how much do I care about the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk? It’s not a surprise that Emil Blonsky/Abomination shows up—as he also…

Hello, and welcome to this meeting of the Tatiana Maslany Appreciation Society! I’ll be your host as we once again ponder a question that has troubled many a member in the wake of Orphan Black’s 2017 finale: Will this incredibly talented actor ever…

The Expanse is over; long may the Rocinante fly. The too-short season six winds things up with “Babylon’s Ashes,” which wraps up as much as it can—and teases stories it seems like The Expanse is never going to get to tell. But as endings go, this one…

A year ago, writing about “Winnipesaukee,” I said, “I love a show that can tell you one of its thesis statements without making it feel like a grand proclamation.” And now, for the last penultimate episode of the series, they’ve gone and done just…