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Falling Review: Warmth Makes the Betrayal Hurt

Jack meets Jillian in a coffee shop and comes away thinking he has found the perfect woman for Johnny. He tells his best friend about her before he has even secured a name or phone number. Then another encounter gives Jack the chance to pursue her himself. There is an easy warmth in that initial impulse to share the discovery. His friend belongs in the excitement of his morning. Remembering that warmth makes the attraction that later develops between Johnny and Jillian uncomfortable in a way the bare description of a love triangle cannot capture. The friendship has already survived...

Angel and the Badman Review: Too Little Weight Behind the Outlaw’s Charm

The gunshots arrive before their source can be seen. Far off, a rider crosses the horizon, small enough for the surrounding country to seem indifferent to his survival; then other horsemen appear, and the open space becomes a place through which he can be hunted. Julio Quintana gives this first image of Angel and the Badman a patient clarity. For a few seconds, distance offers no comfort. A man can ride into all that emptiness and still bring his pursuers with him. The settled places have a different texture. Fresh paint, clean clothing, bright buckles, and newly finished-looking signs give...

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Homura: The Crimson Warriors Review: Hearts Are Easier to Read Than Battles

Choosing to rush forward during ninja training sounds like a decision that should teach you something about your abilities. Homura: The Crimson Warriors can leave that lesson pending for hours. Training choices feed into later mission scenes, but the connection between an answer and its eventual consequence is not always clear. You select an option, read the response, and continue without necessarily knowing what you should carry into the next encounter. The game remembers enough to alter parts of Mutsumi’s performance. It is less reliable at helping the player understand that performance. Affection receives much clearer feedback. A flower appears...

Elsbeth Season 4 Review: Smullen’s Skepticism Gets an Explanation

Luke Prescott leaves bloody fingerprints on a door and a badly beaten man inside the apartment. He has committed an assault, which makes him a convenient murder suspect once Casey Arthurs is found shot dead. The gun, however, has been wiped clean. That gap between evidence of one crime and proof of another gives “Crazy in Love,” the fourth-season premiere of Elsbeth, its investigative footing. Detective Bobby Smullen sees a case ready to close. Elsbeth Tascioni sees an explanation that stops short of accounting for the weapon. The person exploiting that gap is couples therapist Serena Collyer, who knows Luke’s...

Haunted Hotel Season 2 Review: Ghosts Still Need Company

Katherine recruits supernatural concierge arms to help run the Undervale, and the arrangement works until Ben gets hurt. Her staffing solution becomes a parental failure. Haunted Hotel’s second season finds uncomfortable comedy in that transfer of responsibility: the same assistance that makes a mother’s workload bearable can endanger someone depending on her. Katherine, voiced by Eliza Coupe, has a hotel to manage and children to raise, with supernatural disasters competing for her attention. The episode allows her exhaustion to explain the appeal of a shortcut while keeping the harm to her son visible. Abaddon makes the household’s demands ridiculous in...

Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia Review: Six O’Clock Is a Disciplinary Matter

When Director Kim collapses during surgery, the doctors leave with him. An eighty-year-old patient remains on the operating table with a frightened intern, apparently insufficiently important to retain the attention of his surgical team. Gye Su-jeong treats the fallen director, then takes over the abandoned operation. The first episode of Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia makes its hospital’s priorities painfully legible through this evacuation. Everyone knows whom to follow. Remembering whom they were treating takes a little longer. I enjoyed the rescue, then began to distrust how easily the scene secured my allegiance. Su-jeong gets to demonstrate both...

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