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 ...

ABC soapy action series "9-1-1: Nashville" will air its first flashback episode Feb. 26. It explores the way-back-when start of the rocky relationship between the main character, fire captain Don Hart ...

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: ...