Author: Lacy Baugher
The Essex Serpent Review: I Break Things (Season 1 Episode 5)
The penultimate episode of The Essex Serpent may leave you wondering if any of these people deserve a happy ending.
The Essex Serpent Review: Everything is Blue (Season 1 Episode 4)
Cora and Will finally give into their attraction on “The Essex Serpent,” just in time for the town to basically brand her a witch. Now what?
Shining Girls Review: Offset (Season 1 Episode 7)
The penultimate episode of Shining Girls is full of dramatic twists and revelations, but with just one episode to go is it too little too late?
The Essex Serpent Review: Falling (Season 1 Episode 3)
The hunt for a monster continues on The Essex Serpent, though whether we’re looking for a deadly creature from ages past or just the garden variety misogyny of terrible human beings remains up in the air.
Shining Girls Review: Bright (Season 1 Episode 6)
Shining Girls finally offers up some answers with an hour dedicated to Harper’s disturbing backstory.
The Essex Serpent Review: The Blackwater / Matters of the Heart (Season 1 Episodes 1-2)
The Essex Serpent isn’t perfect—it’s painfully slow-moving at points—but its moody, atmospheric setting, thoughtful explorations of faith and belief, and haunting Gothic romance vibes will certainly captivate many viewers.
Shining Girls Review: Screamer (Season 1 Episode 5)
After an episode that finally felt as though it were really moving the story of the series forward, Shining Girls Season 1 Episode 5, “Screamer,” takes several unnecessary steps back.
Shining Girls Review: Attribution (Season 1 Episode 4)
Shining Girls’ fourth episode is a much more propulsive, linear, and all-around interesting hour. (And it’s one I hope viewers who may have felt lost during the show’s opening episodes stuck around to see.)
Shining Girls Review: Cutline / Evergreen / Overnight (Season 1 Episodes 1-3)
Three episodes in, it’s too early to say whether Apple TV+’s ambitious, mind-bending thriller “Shining Girls” will stick the landing. But, gosh, I hope it does.
Pachinko Review: Chapter Eight (Season 1 Episode 8)
Pachinko’s finale effortlessly intercuts several key scenes across time together into one emotional whole, ending on a note that feels complete, even though there’s plenty more story to tell.