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Widow's Bay Season 1

Matthew Rhys · Kate O'Flynn

BLAZING

A horror comedy that plays the impossible completely straight. Very good for eight episodes, thinner once it starts explaining itself.

Horror

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  • Widow's Bay Season 1 poster

    Widow's Bay Season 1

    Matthew Rhys · Kate O'Flynn

    BLAZING

    A horror comedy that plays the impossible completely straight. Very good for eight episodes, thinner once it starts explaining itself.

    Horror

  • Lanterns Season 1 Episode 2 poster

    Lanterns Season 1 Episode 2

    Kyle Chandler · Aaron Pierre

    GLOWING

    A half-step up on the premiere: sharper craft, a genuinely good final ten minutes, and a highway chase that breaks the show's own rules.

    Drama

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  • Lanterns Season 1 Episode 1 poster

    Lanterns Season 1 Episode 1

    Kyle Chandler · Aaron Pierre

    GLOWING

    HBO's Green Lantern series opens on a murder in small-town Nebraska, two Lanterns who can't stand each other, and almost no ring at all.

    Superhero

    Ending explained →
  • House of the Dragon Season 3 poster

    House of the Dragon Season 3

    Matt Smith · Emma D'Arcy

    BLAZING

    A slow middle, the best dragon work the show has done, and Emma D'Arcy's finest hour.

    Fantasy

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  • Boots poster

    Boots

    Miles Heizer · Liam Oh

    GLOWING

    Netflix's 1990 Marine boot camp dramedy is kind, funny and strangely weightless. A 3 that keeps almost turning into a 4.

    Drama

  • Musafir Cafe poster

    Musafir Cafe

    Vikrant Massey · Vedika Pinto

    GLOWING

    Vikrant Massey runs a hilltop cafe in Mussoorie while a Bhopal romance eight years gone plays out alongside it. Patient, unshowy and unfinished.

    Romance

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Five bulbs per review. How the full scale works →

ShatteredBulbs reviews films and television — what works, what drags and what breaks, said plainly. Every review is scored out of five bulbs rather than a percentage, because most things are neither brilliant nor broken and a scale should be able to say so. Reviews stay spoiler-free above the fold: anything that gives the ending away sits behind a section you open on purpose. Where a review has to stop, an Unscrewed explainer picks it up. More about how we work →

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