In the season finale of Homeland, everyone is a pawn in someone else’s power play.
The roles the queens play on RuPaul’s Drag Race are best when they touch on the truth inside.
The episode thrillingly and daringly comes close to completely pressing down on the reset button.
The season finale of The Walking Dead functioned mainly as a prolonged teaser for the battle to come.
Sadly, Homeland can’t leave well enough alone and soon falls back on narrative shortcuts.
Two episodes in, and virtually none of this season’s queens have made much of an impression.
The episode is unique in the canon of the series for the sterling self-reflexivity of its sense of humor.
The episode is at its most artful when sound accentuates the way the storylines have been braided together.
The episode’s triumph is the way it continues to observe the fallout of large political actions.
Every opening episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race is, at the root, an orgy of first impressions.
The attention to behavioral detail that goes into any given episode of The Americans is unlike that of any other show.
In tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead, both Sasha and Rosita’s quiet heroism comes into sharper focus.
Crafting a season around fake news and alternative truth is all for nothing if characters lose sight of what’s real.
The latest episode of The Americans thrillingly plants the seeds of a whirlwind of emotional reckonings.
The episode snaps the show back to its default position with much talk-as-lecture and oppressive foreshadowing.
The episode eerily and effectively depicts how stories can be orchestrated and flipped on a dime.
“Amber Waves” is an immediate reminder that The Americans is an edifice brilliantly constructed of contrasts.
A lot happens in “Say Yes,” almost all of it compelling.
The episode plunges head-on into the murkiness of doubt that even the show’s heroes act like villains.
By episode’s end, most of the show’s key characters have re-invested in the things that most matter to them.