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.
ByRoxana 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.
ByJen Chaney
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The Remorseless Mr. RipleyAndrew Scott’s phenomenal take on Patricia Highsmith’s con man anchors a deliciously mean adaptation.
ByRoxana Hadadi
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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.
ByJen Chaney
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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.
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.
How Does The Gentlemen Do It?A terrible movie becomes a surprisingly entertaining TV series thanks to its handling of Guy Ritchie’s favorite tropes.
ByRoxana Hadadi
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Elsbeth Knows What to DoThe Kings’ Good Wife and Good Fight spinoff sets Carrie Preston’s character loose on NYC to remind us that procedural drama can still be fizzy fun.
Constellation Is a Mother of a Space StoryMove over, sad space dad. Noomi Rapace’s space mom is here to challenge assumptions about the galactic void as a place for self-discovery.
Masters of the Air Skims the SurfaceApple TV+’s WWII miniseries soars when it’s in flight but gets weighed down attempting to cover too much narrative ground.
ByNicholas Quah
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You Need to Watch All of EchoThe first Marvel series of the year is also the first one that can be binged right out of the gate. That’s a good thing.
