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Tatiana Santos
October 29, 2026 4:20 pm
Elsbeth vs High Potential: both earned a season 3 — only one kept the person running the show
CBS and ABC both found a hit in an odd woman who's smarter than the cops around her. Both shows made it to season 3. Only one of them made it there with the same person in charge.
Crush of the day
Tatiana Santos
October 29, 2026 3:40 pm
Who is the Client in VisionQuest? The top theories after episode 6 — the showrunner has already crossed one name off
Somebody is paying a fortune to get their hands on Vision, and six episodes in, VisionQuest still won't show us their face.
Hannah Whitlock
October 29, 2026 3:04 pm
Is The Lowdown a true story? The real man died in 2015 — and his family says FX is 'muddying fact and fiction'
Ethan Hawke's Tulsa "truthstorian" is built on a real local journalist. His sister loved the idea of the show, and then she saw what it did with her brother's life.
Tatiana Santos
October 29, 2026 2:10 pm
The Diplomat vs Homeland: is Kate Wyler a worthy Carrie Mathison replacement? Only one of these shows got better every season
Homeland gave TV its most famous unraveling CIA officer. The Diplomat gave it an ambassador who never wanted the job. One of them aged better than the other, and it isn't the one that won best drama.
Hannah Whitlock
October 29, 2026 1:53 pm
The Get Jiro ending Bourdain wrote 14 years ago — and what the Adult Swim series keeps of it
In 2012, Anthony Bourdain imagined a Los Angeles where chefs run the city like crime bosses. In 2026, Adult Swim turned his sushi chef into a man on a revenge mission.
Tatiana Santos
October 29, 2026 1:35 pm
The Terminal List vs Reacher: fans say Chris Pratt's thriller beats Prime's action king in one department
Prime Video has two shows about very large men solving problems violently. One of them gets the reviews. The other gets something critics can't give it.
Tatiana Santos
October 29, 2026 12:24 pm
Tulsa King vs Landman: critics and IMDb voters crown different winners in Sheridan's heavyweight matchup
Taylor Sheridan has two kings on Paramount+: Sylvester Stallone's mobster in Oklahoma and Billy Bob Thornton's oilman in West Texas. Ask the critics who wins and you get one answer. Ask IMDb and you get the other.
Hannah Whitlock
October 29, 2026 11:31 am
What is Paris Has Fallen based on? Gerard Butler's name is all over it — just not in the cast list
Every Has Fallen movie has the same hero, and the TV series built on them leaves him out.
Tatiana Santos
October 29, 2026 11:13 am
KinnPorsche's Kim and Chay ending isn't the whole story — the novel gives them what the series wouldn't
KinnPorsche took two characters the books barely mention and turned them into the show's most heartbreaking couple. The books still treat them better.
Daniel Okafor
October 29, 2026 10:56 am
Hollywood is dramatizing Erin Patterson's mushroom murders before her appeal is decided
Paramount+ cast its killer on Tuesday. The court decides whether she's legally a killer on Friday.