Alex Kirschenbaum

Season 1, Episodes 1-3 – Netflix’s Frontier premieres with a trilogy of dense, exciting episodes, detailing the twists and turns of the treacherous fur trade in the mid-18th century.

Season 1, Episodes 9-10 – In the concluding one-two punch of People of Earth, we discover that the members of StarCrossed are much more connected than they could have ever suspected…

Season 1, Episode 8 – As People of Earth hits the home stretch of its inaugural season, the aliens continue to experience deepening closeness with the humans they’ve been tasked to alternately infiltrate or observe.

Season 2, Episode 10 – Baal and Evil Ruby return to the scene of the crime, doing battle against Ash, Kelly and Good Ruby in tandem with the soul-swallowing Henrietta Knowby.

Season 1, Episode 7 – People of Earth is all about heart this week. Several relationships, both minor and major in the context of the rookie show from Conaco and TBS, deepen as interactive character nuances bubble to the surface.

Season 2, Episode 9 – Ash and his compadres finally bust out some time travel in the penultimate episode of Ash Vs. Evil Dead‘s second season, featuring the return of another great old-school Evil Dead baddie.

Season 1, Episode 6 – Gina is off the deep end in “Significant Other,” planning a “coming out” moment for all of StarCrossed. She wants the group members to tell a significant figure in their lives that they have been abducted by aliens. It goes horribly, as does this episode.

Season 1, Episode 5 – In “Unexplained,” Jeff The Grey attempts a complicated full-memory wipe of Ozzie Graham, the intrepid reporter who’s starting to piece together the vast alien invasion Jeff and his cohorts have been planning for generations. Elsewhere, love is in the air for many of Beacon’s other inhabitants (and some… more remote visitors).

Season 2, Episode 8 – Not everyone gets out alive in a frustrating confrontation, as a deranged Ash (operating under the control of the evil Baal) chases down his friends in the dank hallways of a psych ward.

Season 1, Episode 4 – In last night’s episode of People of Earth, group leader Gina’s past comes to light, and Jonathan Walsh makes a play to covertly force Ozzie back to the sidelines.

Season 2, Episode 7 – Ash finds himself trapped in a psych ward, with Baal now his therapist, striving convince him that, in fact, his 30 years spent battling Deadites have all been a psychological coping mechanism for the cold-blooded murder of his four friends in that cabin in the woods, many moons ago.

Season 1, Episode 3 – As People of Earth moves right along, the repercussions of the “raccoon” that group leader Gina hit begin to resonate across StarCrossed and aboard the alien spaceship monitoring StarCrossed. Richard starts coping with his wife’s Reptilian “abduction” realistically.

Season 2, Episode 6 – Ash, Ruby, Kelly, Pablo and the Emery women barricade themselves in Ash’s childhood home as angry villagers blame Ash for the Deadite murders — but Ash, Ruby and the Emery’s soon discover their own families have also made questionable alignments..

Season 1, Episode 10 – Atlanta wraps up its first run with a meandering whimper, not a bang, in its most yawn-inducing moment yet.

Season 1, Episodes 1-2 – In the first two episodes of People of Earth, Wyatt Cenac plays an investigative journalist forced to search his own subconscious for the truth when he writes what he had thought was a puff piece on a rural upstate alien encounters group.

Season 2, Episode 5 – Ash, Ruby, Pablo and Kelly find themselves in uncomfortably close quarters with Sheriff Emery and his family… and something a bit more supernatural, too.

Season 1, Episode 9 – In Atlanta‘s penultimate episode this season, Earn and Van deal with some uncomfortable cultural appropriation in a rich ATL couple’s mansion.

Season 2, Episode 4 – Ash must do battle with his beloved Oldsmobile Delta 88, a.k.a. “The Classic,” after it gets possessed by the Book of the Dead.

Season 1, Episode 8 – In this week’s Atlana, Earn, Paper Boi and Darius have a fairly uneventful night at a club… until an eventful moment outside it.

Season 2, Episode 3 – Ash and old high school buddy (and former Desert Storm operative) Chet whip up a ketamine-based cocktail to enliven a kegger, designed to draw in the hooligans who took Ash’s beloved Oldsmobile for an unauthorized joyride.

Season 1, Episode 7 – Atlanta continues to get curiouser and curiouser, this time devoting an entire episode to a fake talk show, “Montague,” and subversive fake commercials that you’ll think are real for the first two rounds. Prepare yourself for an all-too-real kiddie cereal commercial.

Season 2, Episode 2 – In this week’s Ash Vs Evil Dead, Ash and the gang (including Book of the Dead scribe Ruby) battle wacky possessed intestines and reanimated neighborhood floozies, all in the name of saving the human race from certain Deadite doom.

Season 1, Episode 6 – Atlanta changes tacks for “Value,” the sixth episode of its inaugural season. Earn’s occasional girlfriend (and the constant mother of his child) Vanessa combats feelings of inadequacy with a seemingly innocuous irresponsible decision. But how innocuous will it actually prove to be?

Season 2, Episode 1 – In this week’s Ash Vs Evil Dead season deux premiere, Ash, Pablo and Kelly are brought out of their hard-partying Jacksonsville retirement to once again do battle with Ruby’s Deadites — but this time, it’s at Ruby’s behest. They travel to Ash’s home town of Elk Grove, Michigan, to find out why.

Season 1, Episode 5 – Al lets his emotions get the best of him in a celebrity basketball game, Earn networks, and Darius accidentally stirs up trouble at a shooting range. Oh, and Justin Bieber is black.

Season 1, Episode 4 – Earn’s money woes continue, while Al struggles with a YouTube troll. Yawning ensues. With “The Streisand Effect,” the fourth episode of its inaugural season, Atlanta has just hit what we can only hope is its nadir.

Season 1, Episode 3 – In this week’s episode of “Atlanta,” Earn’s money struggles continue, in lock-step with his Vanessa struggles.

Season 1, Episodes 7-10 – Prepare yourself for the exciting conclusion of Crackle and Ben Ketai’s sex, drugs and crypto-currency apps drama StartUp. Steer clear if you haven’t resolved the show, or if you’re just a masochist who likes to spoil plot twists for themselves.

Season 1, Episodes 5-6 – StartUp finds itself pulled in two very different directions. On the one hand, as the show has gone on, it’s really ratcheted up the thrills, and it’s done that with a deft command of structure, pacing, and stakes. On the other hand, though these new hurdles are pretty fun to navigate as a fewer, they point to a more fundamental issue with the show: its reliance on crime show trappings.

Season 1, Episodes 1-4 – In the first four episodes of StartUp, Nick Talman, Izzy Morales and Ronald Dacey found a startup company, the globalized digital currency app GenCoin, while their actions are monitored by morally murky federal agent Phil Rask.