Even when done well, the penultimate flashback episode has become such an endemic storytelling strategy in TV dramas that it should be abandoned on principle. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: ...

Lauren Waters is a TV and Movie Feature Writer for Collider. When she’s not writing about her favorite shows, she is the Beauty Editor and a columnist at Fizzy Mag. She is also a playwright, focusing ...

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Alien: Earth episodes 4 and 5! Alien: Earth's creator and showrunner has explained why the show's fifth episode is a flashback. The show is focused on synthetic beings, who ...

One brilliant way flashbacks can be used is in special episodes. Flashback episodes take place almost entirely in the past and can be used to upend viewer expectations about what they have been ...

I’ll have more to say about the opening three episodes of Only Murders In The Building’s fifth season, but I wanted to start with a discussion of the second episode, because I found it particularly ...

There’s a pattern in TV storytelling that’s been hanging around for a long time, but it’s recently proliferated into a full-blown scourge. If you’ve watched almost any streaming dramas in the past ...