TV amp; Movies Recaps

A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Black and Blue,” coming up just as soon as you cancel my whole week… “You’re right: I do have a problem. Just not the problem you think. I have a Jimmy McGill problem.” —Howard After last week’s historic meeting between Kim and …

A review of this week’s Hawkeye episode, “Echoes,” coming up just as soon as I don’t have to see Imagine Dragons… Last week’s two-part Hawkeye premiere had its pluses, particularly Hailee Steinfeld‘s energetic and funny performance as Kate Bishop. And it had pieces that didn’t really work, from visually muddled …

A review of this week’s Succession, “Mass in Time of War,” coming up just as soon as these are relevant donuts… A fair amount happens among the broader supporting cast this week. Marcia extracts her pound of flesh in exchange for publicly reconciling with the philandering Logan. Ewan returns to …

A review of this week’s WandaVision, “Previously On,” coming up just as soon as I make breakfast for dinner… Collaborative fiction can be a complicated thing, where any one writer’s take on a character or story can last only as long as it takes for another writer to undo it. …

A review of this week’s Fargo, “Lay Away,” coming up just as soon as just as soon as Jonah says there’s a big fish out there somewhere… “There are people you can kill, and people you can’t.” —Ebal Violante This season of Fargo opened with five episodes in a row …

A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “The Guy For This,” coming up just as soon as I dismantle a Rubik’s Cube… “When you’re in, you’re in.” —Nacho Last week’s episode concluded with Nacho and Jimmy reuniting for the first time since early in Season One. “The Guy For …

A review of this week’s The Deuce, “You Only Get One,” coming up just as soon as this hat makes me look like Joan Collins… A very familiar face returns to the Hi-Hat in “You Only Get One,” as Darlene — or Donna, as she goes by once again — …

It’s probably not a good sign when the highlight of an episode of Saturday Night Live is learning John Mulaney will be hosting the next one in March. Host Don Cheadle hoisted this show on his back and made most of it passable through sheer force of will, but it …

A review of “Nobody Has To Get Hurt,” this week’s The Deuce, coming up just as soon as I can’t read Kant… “He talked too much.” -Bobby The title of “Nobody Has To Get Hurt” (a quote from Rudy) suggests something very bad could happen by the end of the …

Streaming dramas are often tricky to recap, as much for their flaws as for the fact that all the episodes drop at once.The Romanoffs, however — Matthew Weiner‘s new anthology series about people who believe they’re descended from Russian royalty — is a special case in a couple of ways. …