SHATTEREDBULBS

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Drama

Films and shows that live or die on a performance.

We score them on whether the people in them are worth the time, not the subject.

67 pieces: 27 reviews, 35 explainers, 3 quizzes and 2 lists

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Movie review

Tony

GLOWING

Matt Johnson's Bourdain film is a warm, familiar coming-of-age story carried by Dominic Sessa and Antonio Banderas. Good, not startling.

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  • Where Was Crew Girl Filmed? Vancouver Island, Not New England still

    Crew Girl

    Where Was Crew Girl Filmed?

    Eagle's Cove and Easton Prep are invented. The real places are on Vancouver Island: public parks, working businesses and a university campus.

  • What Is a Coxswain? Crew Girl's Rowing Terms Explained still

    Crew Girl

    What Is a Coxswain?

    A coxswain steers the boat and calls the race without rowing. Here are the key rowing terms Crew Girl expects you to know.

  • What Crew Girl Should Keep and Cut If It Comes Back still

    Crew Girl

    What Crew Girl Should Keep and Cut If It Comes Back

    Crew Girl is at its best on the water. Why a second season should build on the crew and the rowing, and drop the scandal of the week.

  • Crew Girl Ending Explained: Does Teagan Choose Josh or Cam? still

    Crew Girl

    Crew Girl Ending Explained: Does Teagan Choose Josh or Cam?

    Does Teagan choose Josh or Cam? What really happens in the Crew Girl finale, and the questions a second season would have to answer.

  • Crew Girl Season 2: Renewal Status and Release Window still

    Crew Girl

    Crew Girl Season 2: Renewal Status and Release Window

    Not yet. Where Netflix's decision stands, what the early viewing numbers say, and when a second season could realistically arrive.

  • The Gentlemen's Class Satire, Explained: Who Gets to Make Crime Legal still

    The Gentlemen

    The Gentlemen's Class Satire, Explained

    The Gentlemen's real argument isn't that aristocrats were always criminals. It's that they used to be able to make what they did legal.

  • The Green Lantern Corps Explained: The Ring, the Oath and How the Job Works still

    Green Lantern

    The Green Lantern Corps, Explained

    Lanterns barely explains its own organisation. Here is what the Corps is, how the ring works, and how someone gets handed one.

  • What Happens Next to Aegon II in House of the Dragon Season 4? still

    House of the Dragon

    What Happens Next to Aegon II?

    Aegon ends season 3 publicly alive, back on Sunfyre and face to face with the brother who tried to kill him. Four major turns from his book story remain.

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Quizzes

  • Fifteen House of the Dragon characters drawn as small ink figures in a row across aged vellum.

    House of the Dragon

    Which Character Are You?

    Which of fifteen House of the Dragon characters handles pressure the way you do? Eight everyday questions, and not one about picking sides. House of the Dragon spoilers throughout

  • A golden dragon with wings spread on a wet stone terrace at dusk, ruined arches to one side and the sea below, beside the words "Which dragon will claim you?"

    House of the Dragon

    Which Dragon Will Claim You?

    Fourteen dragons and one egg. Eight questions find the House of the Dragon pairing most like you. Spoilers through the Season 3 finale. House of the Dragon spoilers throughout

  • Five dragon silhouettes in dark grey on cream, facing inward from both edges

    House of the Dragon

    Which Dragon Are You?

    Eight questions, fourteen dragons. Find out which House of the Dragon dragon is most like you, what you bring and what to watch out for. House of the Dragon spoilers throughout

Ranked

Lists

  • The Iron Throne in a dim hall, swords spilling down the steps, a lone figure standing at a tall window

    House of the Dragon

    Targaryen Rulers, Ranked

    Jaehaerys, Viserys, Rhaenyra and Aegon II scored across succession, alliances, smallfolk, dragons and government through season 3.

  • Illustrated poster showing four dragon heads in descending size on cream paper — a vast ancient bronze-green dragon, a scarlet dragon, a dark red dragon and a small white juvenile.

    House of the Dragon

    House of the Dragon dragons, ranked by strength

    Fourteen dragons scored on size, fire, combat record and agility. Vhagar wins. The second-largest dragon alive finishes fourth, and here's why.

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Who people are, what endings meant, and what a show has not said yet — written the morning after, not the week after.

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