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  1. tv review
    There Has Never Been a Sillier Thriller About MathPrime Target commits to the bit, then races around Europe with it.
    By Jackson McHenry
  2. tv review
    Lose Yourself in The AgencyThe Showtime spy thriller gets the genre’s essential tension just right.
    By Nicholas Quah
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    Bury Me in The PittI powered through Max’s not-an-ER reboot with so much delight that I was annoyed when I had to pause to watch something ostensibly better.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    American Primeval Is Three Westerns in OneOne of them is gripping and good, one of them is fine, and one of them is basically The Revenant.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    It Was Worth the WaitSeverance season two delivers answers. But its greatest pleasure is returning to this world and finding it still exists.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  6. tv review
    Squid Game Rebukes Its Own PopularitySeason two of the Netflix phenomenon sinks its claws into the proletariat.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  7. guiltless pleasure
    Give Your Brain an ’80s Bubble Bath and Watch RivalsAn unabashedly horny British drama about … a television network in the Cotswolds?
    By Jackson McHenry
  8. tv review
    Black Doves Is Everything You Could Want From a Spy ThrillerYou thought Dune: Part Two had the best knife fight of the year? Incorrect.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Skeleton Crew Plays With Its Jedi ObsessionWhat if being a fan of the Star Wars galaxy was actually desperately uncool?
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Stuck in Prequel QuicksandDune: Prophecy’s derivativeness is both its greatest flaw and its most defining characteristic.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  11. tv review
    How to Get Away With More MurderSharon Horgan delivers a second season of Bad Sisters with fewer laughs but plenty more twists.
    By Jen Chaney
  12. tv review
    Tell Everyone About Say NothingFX’s exploration of the Troubles captures the thrill and romance of revolution — and the cost of its violence.
    By Nicholas Quah
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    Disclaimer Is a Flaccid, Pretentious SlogAlfonso Cuarón’s first episodic outing takes all the wrong lessons from prestige TV.
    By Nicholas Quah
  14. tv review
    Slow Horses Got the Chance to Get ComfortableWhen a series perfects its formula, even the weakest seasons feel like a triumph.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  15. big spoon vs little spoon
    Culinary Class Wars Revolutionizes the Cooking ShowThe K-reality series smashes conventions of the genre and pokes holes in the distinction between fine dining and street food.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  16. tv review
    The Franchise Isn’t Super Satire, But It Is a Fun HangVeep’s Armando Iannucci sends up superhero fatigue with a workplace comedy that thrives when it’s not succumbing to cynicism.
    By Jackson McHenry
  17. endings
    Penelope’s Cliffhanger Undermines Its Quiet AmbitionsThis rare piece of indie television says so much with so little — until its final moment.
    By Nicholas Quah
  18. tv review
    The Impeccable Smoothness of Nobody Wants ThisThe compulsively watchable Netflix series is TV’s first great podcast rom-com, and an even greater Adam Brody vehicle.
    By Nicholas Quah
  19. close read
    Did Ryan Murphy’s Monsters Need to Be So Sexy?The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story implies there was an incestuous relationship between the brothers. Why?
    By Jen Chaney
  20. tv review
    Who Needs the Batman?As The Penguin’s representatives of Gotham’s underworld, Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti can do bad all by themselves.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  21. powers ranking
    AGATHA ALL ALONG
    Which Witches Are Bringing the Most to Agatha All Along’s Coven?Acting-wise, not magic-wise.
    By Jackson McHenry
  22. identity crisis
    Hacks Isn’t a Good ComedyBut it could be a great drama.
    By Nicholas Quah
  23. kill laugh love
    The Perfect Couple Is My New Favorite (Unintentional?) ComedyNetflix’s murder-mystery miniseries operates on its own bizarro wavelength.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Shouldn’t We Be Having More Fun in Middle Earth?The Rings of Power returns — big, expensive, and static as ever.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Only Murders Is Back in the Building, Baby!Don’t be fooled by season four’s Hollywood sojourn. This series feels more at home than it’s ever been.
    By Nicholas Quah
  26. tv review
    Pachinko Has Mastered the GameWinning, losing — who cares? What, asks season two, does that have to do with living?
    By Roxana Hadadi
  27. tv review
    Call It Tom Petty NoirWant a murder mystery set in a Corona commercial? Welcome to Bad Monkey.
    By Jen Chaney
  28. crime stories
    Batman: Caped Crusader Feels Like the Lost Third Season of Perry MasonThere’s even a subplot about a disputed land-use deal! What could be more neo-noir than that?
    By Roxana Hadadi
  29. tv review
    Decameron
    There’s Nothing Quite Like The DecameronIt’s thrilling to see something so idiosyncratic on TV. If only it were more successful.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  30. tv review
    Lady in the Lake Treads Shallow WatersReplacing a mystery with a sermon, the TV adaptation smooths over the thematic depths of the novel that inspired it.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Lessons in Chemistry Is Maddeningly InertApple TV+’s handsome adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’s best-selling novel is carefully considered and completely uninterested in challenging its audience.
    By Jen Chaney
  32. tv review
    The Remorseless Mr. RipleyAndrew Scott’s phenomenal take on Patricia Highsmith’s con man anchors a deliciously mean adaptation.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  33. tv review
    Pictured: Jon Hamm as Roy Tillman.
    Fargo Sees What the World Is Coming ToBy setting its fifth season in the waning days of 2019, the crime-thriller anthology series jars itself, and us, out of complacency.
    By Jen Chaney
  34. tv review
    True Detective Crawls Back From the VoidAlmost ten years after a tracking-shot episode set an impossible standard, the HBO show is reinventing itself for the better.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  35. tv review
    On Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry Is Forever Going to LarryHBO’s longest-running scripted series is going out exactly as it started: with more examples of petty behavior than you ever dreamed possible.
    By Jen Chaney
  36. tv review
    One With Nature, Stranded in Outer SpaceScavengers Reign, now on Netflix, beautifully animates a horrific sci-fi habitat.
    By Kambole Campbell
  37. tv review
    3 Body Problem Is Not Afraid to Be TVAn unadaptable novel invites a perfect attempt at adaptation — if not a perfect TV show.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    An Architectural Digest Home Tour Turned Spy ShowIn Prime series Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Donald Glover and Maya Erskine achieve their dreams through some truly terrible work-life balance.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  39. tv review
    The Morning Show
    The Morning Show’s Third Season Is Crazy Enough to WorkApple TV+’s premiere prestige drama has embraced its true identity as a high-gloss soap.
    By Jackson McHenry
  40. tv review
    The Crown Keeps Its DistanceWith the tragedy of Diana, Peter Morgan plays it safe to the very end.
    By Jackson McHenry
  41. tv review
    Shōgun Teaches You How to WatchThe Emmy-winning Japanese saga of court intrigue luxuriates in the language of taking and holding power.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  42. tv review
    The Bear Is a Different AnimalGood-bye to the restaurant known as the Beef. Hello to a looser, lighter season two.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  43. tv review
    The Bear Is TrappedCarmy can’t move ahead when he’s haunted by his past, and neither can season three.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  44. fire and blood
    House of the Dragon Soars to New HeightsOh, we’re dancing now.
    By Nicholas Quah
  45. post-carriage comedown
    Bridgerton Just Can’t Pull Off a ClimaxBut it almost doesn’t matter when the foreplay is this good.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  46. lesbian space witches!
    The Acolyte Is Not the Star Wars You Were Looking ForAnd that’s a very good thing.
    By Roxana Hadadi and Jackson McHenry
  47. tv review
    Grad School Was Never This FunPark Chan-wook’s HBO adaptation of The Sympathizer is a captivating senior seminar on postcolonial theory.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  48. tv review
    Yes, O.J. Simpson: Made in America Is That GoodThis five-part ESPN documentary is extraordinary, must-see TV.
    By Jen Chaney
  49. tv review
    In Fallout, the Joke Is on HumanityNot quite the raucous comedy it’s billed as, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s heady new video-game adaptation is basically Westworld 2.0.
    By Nicholas Quah
  50. returnity
    GIRLS5EVA
    It’s Not 2 Late 4 You 3 Get On the Girls5Eva BandwagonIt’s on Netflix now. So what are you waiting five?
    By Jen Chaney
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