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First Prize After last week’s dramatic episode, Killing Eve takes a breather and instead focuses exclusively on Villanelle as we learn more about her family set-up in a self-contained bottle episode. Thawing the cold heart of our calculated assassin and showing a lot more of her humanity, Killing Eve delivers a wonderful episode helped along by a masterful performance from Jodie Comer. Episode 5 of Killing Eve begins with Villanelle heading off to meet her family deep in the heart of Mother Russia....

Episode Guide Just Dunk Me – | Review Score – 3/5 Don’t Get Eaten – | Review Score – 3/5 A Rainbow in Beige Boots – | Review Score – 3/5 It’s Agony and I’m Ravenous – | Review Score – 3/5 Don’t Get Attached – | Review Score – 3/5 Oh Goodie, I’m the Winner – | Review Score – 3/5 Making Dead Things Look Nice – | Review Score – 3/5 Hello, Losers – | Review Score – 3/5 Killing Eve is one of those shows that always punched above its weight....

Episode Guide She Did Something Make It Stop Off The Rails Friends Let Us Down The Witch Is Coming You Can Never Go Home Kiss Me First should be a genre-defying, thought provocative series used as a platform to showcase the darker side of our ever evolving digitalised world. Despite a strong opening few episodes, Kiss Me First destroys any credibility it builds until this point with an incoherent, disjointed story that fails to answer key questions raised in the series....

When the Dapto team accidentally incinerates itself while lighting the torch, the town gathers to discuss what they are going to do. Big Greg’s brother Huge Greg arrives to brag about his team. The Big Smoke twins are supposedly the greatest handball players in the world. Koala Man won’t give up on Dapto, however. The rules state they have 24 hours to find a new team, and Koala Man is going to create and coach one....

Episode Guide Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 After a handy 2 minute recap showing the events that transpired last year, La Casa De Papel begins right at the final frame of the previous season. Raquel’s (Itziar Ituño) investigation has led her to the house the thieves used to plan the heist and the police seem to be closing in on them as they begin investigating....

Link: Eat, Love, Kill Episode 7 Link: Eat, Love, Kill is a fantasy mystery K-drama about a man and woman who share the same emotional state. Eun Gye-Hoon is a chef who sets up a restaurant in town where his twin sister went missing 20 years back. Gye-Hoon finds himself randomly experiencing emotions one day, spontaneously crying and laughing. But why? Well, it turns out these are the emotions of a woman named Noh Da-Hyun....

Squash Episode 2 of Little America begins with young Marisol folding laundry, working with her Mother in a rich person’s house. After finishing their shift, they pack up their things and hit the road where we see their family woes, including sputtering taps and Marisol hiding a school behaviour report while they live in a garage. The year is 2009 and as she heads up to school, on the bus her brother Diego falls victim to a racist slur from one of the students, prompting Marisol to hold in her feelings until she gets to school, where she slaps a drink out the girl’s hands and gets herself in trouble from her teacher....

The Bra Whisperer Episode 2 of Little America season 2 starts with us introduced to Ines, who gets dressed for the day ahead. She’s known as the Bra Whisperer, a nickname given to her by the New York Times in an article, which happens to be a full-page spread about how great she is at her job. It turns out Ines works in a bridal wedding shop, but really all the customers are there for the lingerie, as Ines specializes in beautiful bras for women of all shapes and sizes....

Spider Web Most people would move Heaven and Earth for their children and in Little Fires Everywhere, this much is apparent. With Elena and Mia both clashing and coming from very different backgrounds, Little Fires Everywhere sees these two come to blows over Bebe Chow and her child. Used as a backdrop for their own rivalry that’s been bubbling up over the episodes, this week sees the foundations for their bitter rivalry laid in the form of a custody battle....

Look Both Ways Plot Synopsis Everybody has moments in their lives when they question whether things would have turned out differently if they had made a different choice, which is possibly what makes this tale – which analyzes two parallel storylines simultaneously – so captivating. Look Both Ways tells the tale of a young animator named Natalie using the “two routes diverged in the yellow wood” premise. In addition to having her life figured out for the next five years, she knows precisely what she desires and when she wants it to come true for her....

Chapter 2 Episode 2 of Lost Romance sees us return to the hospital entranceway where Tianxing is being taken to a waiting ambulance for transfer to another hospital. As an unconscious Tianxing grabs Xiao’En’s arm, she recognizes him but Mingli breaks the moment. Mingli questions the doctor, who confirms he’s still unconscious. They move Tianxing into the ambulance as Xiao’En stands watching. She enters the hospital but the scene suddenly goes dark....

Swarm Episode 6 of Love, Death & Robots Season 3 starts with Dr Afriel being invited inside a strange alien nest, known collectively as Swarm. There, he meets a fellow human called Dr Galina Mirny, who has been living here. She explains that this huge swarm is divided into numerous different sub-species, including 15 unique symbiotic aliens living among the hundreds of specialized castes native to the swarm. Various strains of nutrient-rich fungi appear to be the hive’s main food source....

Ghost Swim Episode 11 of Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) Season 2 begins with Dong-Mi seething, desperate to see A-Mi get her comeuppance. In order to resolve this, Pi-Young demands to see her phone. Dong-Mi however, still can’t get past Yu-Shin cheating. She counteractively compliments Pi-Young, calling her the perfect wife. Well, his perfect wife decides to take Yu-Shin to court when A-Mi refuses to show her phone. She gives up until 10am the following day....

Time Is Running Out Episode 16 of Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) Season 3 begins with us over at Dong-Ma’s father’s house. Seo-Bam speaks to his father and decides he’s going to move out with Si-Eun. Seo-Ban sees his father taking favourites and liking Pi-Young more than Si-Eun. He even brings up how he saw Pi-Young receive a ring earlier too. So in order to stop this awkwardness, Seo-Ban decides to move out....

The Final Alarm Episode 6 of Love Alarm Season 2 begins in the past at school, as we see Jojo doing laps while Duk-Goo works out the algorithm to Love Alarm on the floor in chalk. As the familiar love alarm cloud formation shows in the sky, we cut back to the present. Sun-O’s audition has gone pretty well, in fact he’s actually been invited to show up the following day too....

Love in Contract Episode 1 Love in Contract bills itself as a fun and vibrant romantic K-drama. The protagonist here is Cho Sang-Eun, an attractive woman with talent and charm. She works as part of a helper service that provides wives to single people needing partners to take to gatherings specifically tailoring for married couples, like school reunions. Cho Sang-Eun is good at her job but she ends up getting involved with Jung Ji-Ho and Kang Hae-Jin, juggling her time between the two guys on different days of the week....

The Happy Ending So here we are, the season finale of Love With Flaws split across the final two episodes. It’s been a pretty rocky ride up until this point and between dark drama, quirky slapstick and a myriad of subplots that haven’t always worked that well, Love With Flaws few bright spots do just enough to see it over the finish line with a feel-good finale that wraps things up reasonably well, even if it does feel a little rushed and unsatisfying for a few characters....

May It Please The Court Episodes 9-10 If there’s one thing we haven’t had enough of this year it’s courtroom K-dramas… and that’s precisely what we’ve got in Disney’s new K-offering, May It Please The Court. Nok Chakhee is an ace lawyer with the highest winning rate in a big law-firm within Jangsan. She becomes a public defender of Jeongha overnight, where she becomes involved with a unique and eccentric public defender called Jaw Sibaek....

Episode Guide Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 BBC dramas tend to be hit or miss in their delivery but with globe-trotting, well paced McMafia, this is one crime drama that’s certainly more hit than miss. It’s not without its issues but with 8 episodes spanning multiple locations around the world, what begins as a simple story of redemption quickly escalates to include multiple countries and an intricate web of globalised crime....

Happily Ever After The finale to Melting Me Softly is here and as expected the show delivered a very dramatic and emotional conclusion to this tale. While it wasn’t the strongest chapter in the series, it still offered up enough closure for all of our characters and after a tense build-up our two characters finally get their happy ending. The episode starts in the aftermath of Mi-Ran being frozen in a capsule as we see her family and Dong-Chan having a hard time coping with the situation....