The Rainmaker Season 2 Review: Fame Arrives Before the Money
Bruiser Stone and Deck Shifflet are meeting clients who want to know where Rudy Baylor is. He is duck hunting...
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Lunne can enter someone’s heart and still reach a point where she has no idea how to help. Inside the Heart Palaces of The Witch’s Bakery, progress sometimes stops until she returns to the person whose distress has taken physical form. Another conversation, another piece of their life understood, and the way forward becomes available. For a game about a witch selling enchanted pastries in Paris, that interruption carries surprising emotional weight. You can possess an extraordinary gift and still need to sit down with someone. The spaces waiting beyond those conversations give understanding a sense of discovery. An underwater...

Loona seems headed for a makeover after an assassination target sneers at her appearance. The setup invites us to expect a seductive entrance, then she crashes through a window with a gun. It’s a lovely piece of comic misdirection: the joke steers our expectations toward one outcome so that the actual response arrives with extra force. Loona gets to reject the target’s judgment through the way she does her job. Her move into fieldwork gives Helluva Boss’s third season an opportunity to turn a familiar personality into fresh action, and this gag takes it. “Turtle Emoji” could use that economy...

Loona seems headed for a makeover after an assassination target sneers at her appearance. The setup invites us to expect a seductive entrance, then she crashes through a window with a gun. It’s a lovely piece of comic misdirection: the joke steers our expectations toward one outcome so that the actual response arrives with extra force. Loona gets to reject the target’s judgment through the way she does her job. Her move into fieldwork gives Helluva Boss’s third season an opportunity to turn a familiar personality into fresh action, and this gag takes it. “Turtle Emoji” could use that economy...

Bruiser Stone and Deck Shifflet are meeting clients who want to know where Rudy Baylor is. He is duck hunting with lawyers interested in recruiting him. The Rainmaker’s second-season premiere gets useful mileage out of that division of labor: Rudy’s colleagues handle the business while his name becomes the business’s principal attraction. Two months after the Great Benefit victory, the appeal still stands between the firm and financial security. Celebrity, however, has arrived ahead of the money. The partnership offer Rudy receives gives Bruiser a problem that professional jealousy alone cannot explain. She has helped train a young lawyer whom...

Rescuing the museum guests leaves a second job unfinished: explaining why the doors locked them inside with a swarm of murder hornets. In “Going Rogue,” the Season 2 premiere of 9-1-1: Nashville, that question gives incoming detective Rogue Kelly a reason to enter territory already occupied by Station 113. Three people have died, including the architect whose model concealed the insects. Rogue identifies manipulated temperature controls and suspicious security doors. Ryan Phillippe’s new character brings a homicide investigation into an emergency franchise, extending the disaster’s dramatic usefulness after the rescue crews finish their work. The episode develops that arrangement through...

The creature approaching Julia gives her time to understand that she is in trouble. It looks at her, then charges. The live-action image gives way to pixel art, and suddenly getting her out of its path is your responsibility. Tenebris Somnia makes that handover wonderfully uncomfortable. You have already seen the thing moving toward a human body; the switch to a small sprite offers very little reassurance. Your hands have to catch up with a fear the footage has already planted. Clara Kovacic’s performance helps that fear survive the transition. The filmed sequences have no spoken dialogue, leaving her visible...
Bruiser Stone and Deck Shifflet are meeting clients who want to know where Rudy Baylor is. He is duck hunting...
Read moreDetailsRescuing the museum guests leaves a second job unfinished: explaining why the doors locked them inside with a swarm of...
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Read moreDetailsA Polish drama about a burglar who slips into a dead stranger’s life won the top prize at the Warsaw International Film Festival on Saturday. Grzegorz Dębowski’s “What Belongs to Others” took the Warsaw Grand Prix in the international competition at the festival’s 42nd edition, which ran October 9–18 with...
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Read moreLunne can enter someone’s heart and still reach a point where she has no idea how to help. Inside the Heart Palaces of The Witch’s Bakery, progress sometimes stops until...
Loona seems headed for a makeover after an assassination target sneers at her appearance. The setup invites us to expect a seductive entrance, then she crashes through a window with...
Loona seems headed for a makeover after an assassination target sneers at her appearance. The setup invites us to expect a seductive entrance, then she crashes through a window with...
Bruiser Stone and Deck Shifflet are meeting clients who want to know where Rudy Baylor is. He is duck hunting with lawyers interested in recruiting him. The Rainmaker’s second-season premiere...
Rescuing the museum guests leaves a second job unfinished: explaining why the doors locked them inside with a swarm of murder hornets. In “Going Rogue,” the Season 2 premiere of...
The creature approaching Julia gives her time to understand that she is in trouble. It looks at her, then charges. The live-action image gives way to pixel art, and suddenly...
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The tenants of Paradiso Palms complain to Serena about wet floors and broken glass, treating their apartment manager as personally responsible for a building she struggles to keep functioning. In...
As James and his friends search the woods for his missing sister, the birds fall silent. It’s a small sound choice, and one of the most effective in Scott Windhauser’s...
Lunne can enter someone’s heart and still reach a point where she has no idea how to help. Inside the...
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