Skip to Content
Pop Heist home
Pop Heist
Log In

Sean T. Collins

Sean T. Collins is a freelance TV critic for the New York Times, Vulture, Decider, and elsewhere. He is the author of Pain Don’t Hurt: Meditations on Road House, available at mutualskies.com. He and his wife, the cartoonist Julia Gfrörer, live with their children on Long Island.

Connect

Prestige Prehistory

‘I, Claudius’ Series Premiere Recap: The Empire Writes Back

There are so many ways to make great television drama, and this is one of them.

August 11, 2025
Prestige Prehistory

‘The Prisoner’ Finale Recap: Be Seeing You

This is the kind of episode very stoned people turn into life-governing conspiracy theories.

August 5, 2025
Prestige Prehistory

‘The Prisoner’ Episode 15 Recap: Femme Fatale

Holy Village Storybook! This episode revels in all the great style of the swingin' '60s, and maybe a little Batman as well...

July 28, 2025
Prestige Prehistory

‘The Prisoner’ Episode 14 Recap: The Tale of the Body Thief

If Six can have his old life back however briefly, in however strange a way, he'll take it.

July 24, 2025
Prestige Prehistory

‘The Prisoner’ Episode 13 Recap: The Man With No Name

July 21, 2025
Prestige Prehistory

‘The Prisoner’ Episode 12 Recap: Paranoid

July 17, 2025
Prestige Prehistory

‘The Prisoner’ Episode 11 Recap: Conversion Therapy

Patrick McGoohan filters the dystopian notions of Orwell and Burgess through 'The Prisoner's' kaleidoscopic aesthetic.

July 14, 2025
Prestige Prehistory

‘The Prisoner’ Episode 10 Recap: Homeward Bound

"Where is this?"

July 10, 2025
Prestige Prehistory

‘The Prisoner’ Episode 9 Recap: Blond Ambition

From 'Andor' to 'Austin Powers,' 'The Prisoner's' influence can be felt across pop culture.

July 7, 2025
Older