When the first season of Hanna arrived in early 2019, it seemed like creator David Farr was given license to…

There is a moment in one of the early episodes of Motherland: Fort Salem that beautifully, and frustratingly, hints…

Anaïs Nin saying, “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to…

Joe Wright’s Hanna was released in 2011, just preceding the boomlet in all tales Strong Female Protagonist ushered…

Sartre’s famous phrase, “Hell is other people” may have gone from a staggering insight about the nature of the Self…

Until this penultimate episode, Escape At Dannemora has distinguished itself as a character-driven drama, more…

Here, finally, for better and (inevitably) for worse, is the titular escape at Dannemora. Or, more aptly, escapes:…

“Chapter Four” is roughly the midpoint of Escape At Dannemora, so it makes sense that this episode would focus on…

One of the pleasures of watching Escape at Dannemora is the way the show connects action (and “Chapter Three” has…

If “Chapter One” of Escape At Dannemora was about the power and sway of raw desire—how it invigorates and…

Escape At Dannemora could easily package itself as a stylish, well-pedigreed action tale and still be wildly…

Even though The Walking Dead has shuffled and slurred and growled a long way from its heyday as must-see Sunday TV,…

“Warning Signs” accomplished what precious few episodes of The Walking Dead have done since about roughly mid-way…

In the first scene of “The Bridge,” Rick Grimes rhapsodizes about the brightness of the future with his…

It’s fitting that Persephone, the goddess most known for her suffering, is finally evoked in the last episode of Shar…

In “Falling,” Chief Vickery wryly, wistfully, wonders why the women of Wind Gap aren’t content to be ordinary. The…

Sharp Objects is a dark meditation of a show, long on mood and short on forward action. These six hours have been…

In her seminal essay, “A Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain,” Leslie Jamison assesses the ways that women are…

The episode titles for Sharp Objects offer a kind of wry commentary about the surface and subterranean events of the…

Sharp Objects is saturated in menace: The ugly, acid-washed lighting that haunts seedy motel rooms, hospital…