Watching the penultimate episode of the second season of Harlots, it’s sometimes difficult to remember that it’s not the season finale. This season had a slower build, but the stakes were …
Harlots 2×06 Review: The women struggle to transcend legacies of trauma
A major theme in Harlots is how violence abuse is perpetuated throughout generations, and how the various women in the show have coped with their trauma. Margaret’s mother was so unfeeling towar…
Harlots 2×05 Review: The Kids Are Not All Right
The latest episode of Harlots is all about the unexpected. Not that anything that happens will be much of a surprise to us. It’s more that the various members of the cast, with their constantly …
Harlots 2×04 Review: Danger inches closer to the unknowing Wells women
Wheels never spin for long on Harlots, and things are once again in full motion on the fourth episode of the show’s sophomore season. The women are firmly established in the places that will mak…
Harlots 2×03 Review: Old ground is revisited while setting up the new
The third episode of Harlots may be mostly filler, but it’s more interesting than such episodes usually are, even if it mostly hammers home what we know before. Mostly, it shows the women inchin…
The Handmaid’s Tale 2×13 Review: ‘The Word’ ends the season with new twists, new frustrations
You can always count on something serious to go down on every episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, so we’d expect nothing less from the season finale. Much life the end of the first season, the…
Harlots Season 2 Premiere Review: Get ready, because the girls are definitely back in town
Harlots was always a show with quite a bit on its mind. Call it a byproduct of its subject matter, which happens to be about prostitutes in 1763 London, a time when one in five women made their living…