Stuart Bloom spent twelve seasons of “The Big Bang Theory” as the guy everyone forgot was in the room, the comic bookshop owner who dated Sheldon’s mother and existed mostly as a punchline about loneliness. Now he’s flung across the multiverse fighting for his life, and somehow that promotion still feels like an afterthought. That, … Read more
I don’t usually remember what a killer says to her victims before she kills them, mostly because the shows I watch don’t bother giving her anything worth saying. But Catherine, the woman at the center of “Furious,” talks to the men she’s about to murder like she’s trying to work something out about them, or … Read more
72 Hours is Rated R by Motion Picture Rating (MPA) for pervasive language, sexual material, drug use and graphic nudity. Everyone has been in that group chat by accident. You watch the messages stack up, feel the slow creep of I don’t belong here, and quietly hit leave. Joe, the forty-year-old ad executive Kevin Hart … Read more
In summary, a court lady who can hear the dead whispering through palace walls, paired against her will with a demon slayer too exhausted by his job to care whether the kingdom lives or dies. Now give them eight episodes, a king watching his sons drop one by one exactly the way his own brothers … Read more
A woman steals a stranger’s kid because she’s decided the kid is secretly her. Written down like that, The Kidnapping of Arabella sounds unhinged, maybe even a little dangerous. Watching it, though, you mostly just feel for her. That gap between how insane this premise sounds and how tender it plays, is the whole reason … Read more
They Fight — A Sharp Left Hook That Never Quite Connects The best fifteen minutes of “They Fight” happen before anyone throws a punch. Walt Manigan, three years into a five-year sentence, sits across from a parole board that wants to know if he’s ready to express contrition. André Holland plays that moment with a … Read more
The Hawk — When a Golf Swing Gets Stretched Into a Marathon I’ve been laughing at this exact character for twenty years, so let me tell you why I stopped laughing about episode four. Ricky Bobby wanted to go fast, Chazz Michael Michaels wanted a triple axel he had no business attempting, and Jackie Moon … Read more