There is something slightly ridiculous about talking seriously about Harry Potter Season 2 when the new HBO series has not even premiered yet. We haven’t watched the new Harry stumble into the Great Hall. We haven’t heard this new trio argue over homework. We haven’t even had the chance to decide whether Dominic McLaughlin actually…
There is one number Harry Potter fans keep coming back to whenever the HBO reboot comes up: eight. Not seven seasons, not the December premiere, not even the new trio of young actors. The episode count has become its own little battleground, especially among fans who remember exactly how much the original movies had to…
There are some franchises that are difficult to reboot because the original version was merely popular. Harry Potter is different. Those eight Warner Bros. movies became part of the childhood of an entire generation, so the idea of starting over at Hogwarts was always going to feel slightly dangerous. Now HBO is actually doing it….
R.J. Decker Season 2 has a problem that plenty of network crime shows would love to have: its first season was so entertaining that simply doing more of the same would probably have been enough. Thankfully, ABC did not take the easy route. The second season picks up after one of the nastiest cliffhangers of…
There are plenty of crime dramas on television that take themselves painfully seriously. Everyone is miserable, every room is gray, and somebody is always staring dramatically into the middle distance while a murder investigation gets progressively darker. Then there is R.J. Decker. That is probably the biggest reason I’m genuinely excited for Season 2. ABC’s…
There is something wonderfully nasty about MobLand. It is not trying to be a polite crime drama. People lie, threaten, manipulate, betray each other, and then sit down for dinner as if nothing happened. That mixture of family dysfunction and organized crime is exactly what made the first season so addictive. Now the Harrigans are…
There are plenty of crime dramas on television, but very few feel like they were made with absolutely no interest in playing it safe. MobLand is one of those shows. From the moment Tom Hardy’s Harry Da Souza walked into the Harrigan family’s violent world, the series had a strange confidence about it. It wasn’t…
High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam is finally here, and frankly, this is exactly the kind of political thriller television has been missing. Instead of turning the capture of Saddam Hussein into another glossy military spectacle packed with explosions and patriotic speeches, the eight-episode limited series is far more interested in what happens after…
Amazon is taking us back to Middle-earth in 2026, and honestly, it is about time. After all the delays, rumors, production speculation, and endless arguments over whether The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power can actually deliver on its enormous potential, Season 3 is finally starting to look like something concrete rather than…
There are plenty of political thrillers arriving in 2026, but High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam immediately feels different. This isn’t another military series built around explosions, covert raids, and conveniently heroic soldiers. Its central conflict is much quieter: one intelligence officer sitting across from Saddam Hussein and trying to figure out what the…
There are plenty of things The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has done that made Tolkien fans argue. The casting of Celeborn might be the one that finally makes everyone stop and pay attention. After two seasons of Galadriel wandering through Middle-earth without her husband, Prime Video has finally confirmed what many…
There is something especially gripping about a political thriller when you already know how the story ends. That is exactly the challenge facing High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam, TNT’s new historical miniseries starring Joel Kinnaman as CIA analyst John Nixon and Waleed Zuaiter as Saddam Hussein. The series takes one of the most…