The latest episode of Harlots is all about the unexpected. Not that anything that happens will be much of a surprise to us. It’s more that the various members of the cast, with their constantly shifting allegiances and fortunes, must…
Harlots 2×04 Review: Danger inches closer to the unknowing Wells women
Wheels never spin for long on Harlots, and things are once again in full motion on the fourth episode of the show’s sophomore season. The women are firmly established in the places that will make or break them, with Quigley…
Harlots 2×03 Review: Old ground is revisited while setting up the new
The third episode of Harlots may be mostly filler, but it’s more interesting than such episodes usually are, even if it mostly hammers home what we know before. Mostly, it shows the women inching forward in their respective storylines before…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×13 Review: ‘The Word’ ends the season with new twists, new frustrations
You can always count on something serious to go down on every episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, so we’d expect nothing less from the season finale. Much life the end of the first season, the show throws us some truly…
Harlots Season 2 Premiere Review: Get ready, because the girls are definitely back in town
Harlots was always a show with quite a bit on its mind. Call it a byproduct of its subject matter, which happens to be about prostitutes in 1763 London, a time when one in five women made their living that…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×12 Review: New life, new twists liven up ‘Postpartum’
The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t exactly known for its twists as the various ways it can creatively and emotionally devastate us with them. In “Postpartum,” it does so yet again through Gilead’s true believers. We’ve seen the destruction such people can…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×11 Review: Moss astounds in repetitive yet affecting “Holly”
The best thing about The Handmaid’s Tale episode “Holly” is Elisabeth Moss. It’s powerful stuff, but it’s ultimately filler. Moss is the one whose skill and fearlessness makes “Holly” rise above its limitations. Again. In the episode, June laments that…