After Joker, is there any way Joaquin Phoenix could shock more with a performance? Probably only by playing a healthy, well-adjusted person. To say he has made a career out of playing darker, complicated characters is like saying tornadoes have…
Harlots 3×08 Review: An Unpredictable Season Finale Brings Hulu’s Underrated Feminist Drama to Another Satisfying Close
Harlots often has enough squeezed into one episode than some shows do in entire seasons. A slow burn this series is not, but it has the kind of punchy relevance it’s become fashionable to court, yet as difficult as ever…
Harlots 3×07 Review: Women Try to Become Saviors, With Mixed Results
“I don’t need a rescuer. I am the rescuer,” Kate Quigley tells the well-meaning magistrate who’s trying to save her from a life of luxury as the Prince’s mistress. This is generally where a woman would be punished for her…
Where’d You Go, Bernadette Movie Review: Even Cate Blanchett can’t salvage this train wreck
There’s a really good movie hiding in Where’d You Go, Bernadette, but by the time the heroine runs off in the second half, it’s nowhere to be found. The failure is epic and confused enough to bring not just one…
Harlots 3×06 Review: Suspense Remains Strong as Subplots Flourish
The women of Harlots have had many a morning after some truly wild and fraught nights. In the latest episode, however, it’s murder that’s giving them a hangover—or, at least, its emotional equivalent. Not that some of them aren’t familiar…
The Handmaid’s Tale 3×13 Review: A Stirring Season Finale is a Much-Needed Reminder of the Show’s Strengths
Just why did it take so long for The Handmaid’s Tale to get up to its old tricks? There’s barely been an episode where belief could be suspended enough to make June seem anything but invincible. But the season finale…
Harlots 3×05 Review: Subplots, Subplots Everywhere
Dull moments have never been a thing on Harlots, but the latest outing is so overstuffed that nearly every main character not only gets a subplot, but a new threat. It’s the classic case of too much of a good…
