This Is Us Isn’t Comfort TV, It’s Just Boring TV

[Spoilers for the first 10 episodes, including December 6’s midseason finale, of This Is Us.] For all the grisly iniquities that might befall a Victorian-era Londoner, so goes a theory, the Sherlock Holmes stories were ultimately a comfort to readers. Genre expectations — in this case, that of a solved mystery — furnished the illusion...Read more »