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Recap: Ted Lasso – 3×03 – “4-5-1”

March 29, 2023 Comments Off

Written by Bill Wrubel Directed by Destiny Ekaragha Colin is gay! I know I am by far not the only one absolutely thrilled to see this storyline actually develop. Ever since he suspiciously knew about

Recap: Shrinking 1×10 – “Closure”

March 24, 2023 Comments Off

Here we are, 9 weeks and 10 episodes later. The season finale, written by co-exec Neil Goldman is titled “Closure”, and while it gives us that in many ways, it also ends on big old

Recap: Ted Lasso Season 3×02 – “(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea”

March 22, 2023 Comments Off

Directed by: M.J. Delaney Written by: Sasha Garron Finally, it is time for some Roy Kent backstory, and this episode delivers and delivers. It’s written by Sasha Garron and is easily one of the best of

Recaps of “Ted Lasso” Season 3

March 17, 2023 Comments Off

I’m Sabrina Mittermeier, a new contributor to The Spoilist. My day job is researching and teaching American cultural history at a German university, including classes on television. I am currently in treatment for depression, something

Recap: Shrinking – 1×09 – “Moving Forward”

March 17, 2023 Comments Off

An upbeat opening set to Eddie Vedder’s “The Dark” has three patients waiting and pairing off with Paul, Gaby and Jimmy. Jimmy takes his on an excursion to scatter his mother’s ashes at the Rose

Recap: Ted Lasso Season 3×01 – “Smells Like Mean Spirit”

March 15, 2023 Comments Off

Welcome to The Spoilist’s Ted Lasso Season 3 coverage! I’m Sabrina, you may already know me from my Shrinking recaps on here, Ted Lasso is life, and I hope my writing on this show will be

Recap: Shrinking 1×08 – “Boop”

March 10, 2023 Comments Off

This week feels like a narrative calm before the storm, a quiet moment before the big finale (which I expect to at least partially be set at Brian and Charlie’s wedding). It’s a classic 8

P for Picard: ‘Disengage’ and ‘Seventeen Seconds’

March 8, 2023 Comments Off

With the Titan on the edge of Federation space, they’re outgunned by a ship who demand to take Jack Crusher as prisoner. Meanwhile, Picard and Beverly must confront their past mistakes.

In 17 seconds, Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher confront the past in sickbay.

Star Trek: Picard season 3 episode 3 ‘Seventeen Seconds’ review

March 5, 2023 Comments Off

Who is Jean-Luc Picard? That’s essentially the thesis of this show and each season has explored the question in a different way.

Recap: Shrinking – 1×07 – “Apology Tour”

March 3, 2023 Comments Off

Let’s start by saying that this one is the funniest yet. I laughed a lot about episode 4, “Potatoes”, even despite some of its tropes, but this one managed to do the same without them

Star Trek: Picard season 3 episode 2 ‘Disengage’ review

February 26, 2023 Comments Off

Is this episode comfortably the most Star Trek: Picard has felt like Star Trek? I’m not saying it’s classic Star Trek, or even anything like Star Trek: The Next Generation but it least has the look and feel of a recognisable version of Star Trek

Recap: Shrinking – 1×06 – “Imposter Syndrome”

February 24, 2023 Comments Off

If you‘re here for the first time, I now created a landing page for all my episode reviews/recaps of Shrinking. We open with Sean describing his war flashbacks, doing the work. The work Jimmy himself