Television

8.1Skry

Reacher

2022

A giant ex-military cop with no phone, no address, and no plan drifts into a small Georgia town and is immediately arrested for a murder he didn't commit. The series is built as a procedural that keeps widening its conspiracy — what begins as a wrongful-arrest plot opens outward into organized crime and municipal corruption, with Reacher solving it floor by floor. Alan Ritchson plays the character as a man whose size is a fact the show treats practically rather than spectacularly: the physicality is there to establish that he can operate alone. Nick Santora adapts Lee Child's novels with the rhythms of an old-fashioned thriller, each episode closing a door while opening another.

7.4Skry

The Walking Dead: Dead City

2023

A spinoff that reassigns the most complicated pairing in The Walking Dead's long run — Maggie and Negan, whose history includes an act of violence she has never forgiven — and then drops them into Manhattan, which the series treats as a sealed-off ruin governed by neither law nor clear threat hierarchy. Eli Jorné builds the show around a single extended mission into that island, using the geography of decayed infrastructure as both obstacle and atmosphere. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan carry the dramatic weight: the mission requires a working alliance, and the alliance requires both characters to hold their history in suspension without quite setting it down.

The Boys

2019