SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Homicide Squad: New Orleans Season 3, Episode 1. Homicide Squad: New Orleans and The First 48 have a lot of things in common. They air on the same network. They cover the same subject. They use some of the same narrative devices. And
SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for The Pitt Season 2, Episode 2. The second episode of The Pitt Season 2 brings the season’s ideas into greater focus, which is exactly what it needs to do. The premiere of the HBO Max series had to introduce new characters and
SPOILER ALERT AND WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Chicago PD Season 13, Episode 9. It also contains discussion of suicide. Chicago PD Season 13, Episode 9 is a win simply because it’s a Trudy Platt episode. Trudy has been underused for years, often appearing in just a scene
SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Chicago Fire Season 14, Episode 9. All of the storylines in Chicago Fire Season 14, Episode 9 are easy to predict. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re bad, although one in particular will have fans of the NBC show talking. But
SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Beast Games Season 2, Episode 4. Reality TV fans got a dream come true in Beast Games Season 2, Episode 4—most notably Ian Weber, who capitalized on the Prime Video series’ Survivor crossover to win himself a private island. Perhaps even more
SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Best Medicine Season 1, Episode 2. After the Best Medicine series premiere established the FOX dramedy’s premise and characters, now it’s the second episodes job to tell viewers what they can expect story-wise. Why should they hang around Port Wenn for
Power Book IV: Force is coming to an end in a near-perfect way. It’s also ending too soon, because the Starz drama is one of the actually great spinoffs in television. It’s a reminder that spinoffs and sequels aren’t just ways to build franchises. When they’re
SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for The Pitt Season 2, Episode 1. The stakes for The Pitt Season 2 feel raised simply because of all the praise and awards that the HBO Max show has garnered. Season 2 is the highly anticipated second album, as fans wait to see
SPOILER ALERT / WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The First 48 Season 29, Episode 2. It also contains discussion of domestic violence. Tulsa Homicide made their The First 48 Season 29 debut with an episode that will go down as one of the best in the A&E series’
SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Chicago PD Season 13, Episode 8. With “Born Screaming,” Chicago PD follows its own well-developed template. The NBC show picks up its cliffhanger, which left new recruit Eva Imani trapped in Raymond Bell’s house, and has Bell brought to justice in a
HBO Max‘s The Pitt has carved out its place in the medical genre. The series made an award-winning splash in the first season, and Season 2 is more of the same. That includes some of the same weaknesses, but most of the same strengths are back on deck, too.
Mayor of Kingstown is ending on a high. Paramount+ announced on Monday that it had renewed the series—but that Season 5 will be its last. Not only that, but the final season will be two episodes shorter than usual. It’s bittersweet, because Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 established