The new Spanish language series Dear Killer Nannies manages to find a new and unexpected way into the life of an archetypal villain, focusing very little on the bloodshed that has made his life so ripe for movies and television.
Stacy's journey reveals that even in a seemingly perfect marriage, there are hidden complexities that only surface after a significant loss. Her struggle to understand her husband posthumously highlights the often-unseen layers of relationships.
Strip Law centers on Lincoln Gumb (Adam Scott), a down-on-his-luck lawyer who was recently fired from his family firm by his dead mother's former law partner, Steve Nichols (Keith David). Gumb's new firm, which is staffed by his wayward teenage niece Irene Gumb (Aimee Garcia) and a disbarred old eccentric named Glem Blorchman (Stephen Root), is on the verge of going out of business because Gumb's unflashy lawyering style can't keep the attention of Vegas's overstimulated judges and juries.
In the fourth season of Industry, everyone has a story to sell: a neutered fund or loveless marriage, shamed husbands, a life aimless after retirement, a payment-processing firm hampered by its ties to porn and sex work. These labels seem to indicate mistaken priorities or misplaced trust. But they are just narratives to be refined or redefined. Everything is up for grabs if you tell the right story.
Whereas other characters are cold and sharklike, Yas feels her way through the world-and uses her vulnerability to manipulate others. Being born into wealth taught her that none of us is in command of our fate, so we had better cheat for whatever control we can. She's the statuesque girlboss for the new gilded age.
Jenny G. Zhang: After a series premiere that seemed to be received pretty well by viewers-although the diarrhea smash cut was certainly divisive-we open the second episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with another jump scare: big dong alert, courtesy of Ser Arlan of Pennytree, who is truly packing the heat. (While he is probably not a Best or a Worst Person in Westeros this week, he certainly deserves some kind of title.)
In many serialized dramas, the climax of a given season lands in the penultimate episode; think of the dramatic battles and major character deaths of Game of Thrones or, further back, The Sopranos and The Wire. But Landman isn't like most dramas. Tonight's penultimate episode of season two feels like an anti-climax - not just a letdown generally, but the diametric opposite of a climax.