Marah Eakin

Despite all its bonafides, everything about “Every Year After” just feels decidedly uninspired. The settings are lovely but the story is rote and predictable. Spread out over eight almost too flimsy episodes.

Yerin Ha is sharp and effervescent as Sophie, and it’s hard not to fall in love with her almost instantly. Plot-wise, there’s some charming “upstairs-downstairs” type interplay a la “Downton Abbey” or “The Gilded Age.” .... The show also manages to give Benedict a bit more depth than he’d been afforded in the books.

It’s as smart as anything else on TV right now, including more serious fare on other channels and streamers, and, like Joanne and Noah, it truly deserves all the love it’s got coming.

It’s clear that “Blood of My Blood” is certainly reveling in its ability to deliver “Outlander” fan service. Whether that will be enough to build a long term fanbase — or even a set of stories that viewers come to care about on their own merit — is still really anyone’s guess.

“The Residence” is fun, frothy and full of intrigue, and sometimes that’s more than enough.

Everyone in this cast is notoriously funny, and while this show isn’t exactly doing “prestige comedy” at the level of “Hacks” or even “The Righteous Gemstones,” it’s a gentle joy to watch, even during dicey moments that could hit a little too close to home for some couples.

Berg and Smith’s on-screen vision is all pain with very little relief, making a binge-watch of this series a bit of a masochistic exercise. Knowing that the show employed an enormous amount of help to ensure what it captured was as real as possible, including indigenous cultural consultants and Mormon and military experts, is impressive but almost makes things worse.

When episode four ends, Claire, Jamie, and their unit are arriving at Fort Ticonderoga to muster up for the Continental Army so it’s very possible things could get a bit more hair-raising in the back half of the season, but at least for now it’s safe to say you can just sit back and enjoy the show’s smooth, Scottish ride.

The Argylls’ duel has the potential to be salacious, and it surely was at the time, but now it’s more sad than anything. While the show clearly aims to lift up Margaret in absentia, instead it just makes viewers feel pretty disgusted by the whole affair.

Overall, season two of “The Flight Attendant” doesn’t mix things up much from its first season, and that’s both a blessing and a curse.