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Sept. 22, 2016
Notorious Is No Substitute for Scandal The only “scandal” is how unoriginal this show is.
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Sept. 21, 2016
Designated Survivor Gives Us a Kiefer-in-ChiefThe premise of this new ABC drama is frightening, but watching it is only mildly intense.
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Sept. 20, 2016
Yes, You’re Going to Need Some Tissues for This Is Us The new NBC series is a tad contrived, but also undeniably moving.
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Sept. 19, 2016
Mike Schur’s The Good Place Is Irresistible Watch this NBC comedy if you know what’s good for you.
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Sept. 16, 2016
Fleabag Feels Different From Anything Else on TVThe whole show is a study of one woman’s personality.
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Sept. 15, 2016
American Horror Story Season 6: Did the Mystery Pay Off?After a whole lot of deliberately cryptic buildup, we finally know what this season of American Horror Story is about. And it’s not a surprise.
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Sept. 7, 2016
Cinemax’s Quarry Is a One-Note Show The show strikes a particular note with great variety, but there are 87 other notes on a keyboard and you start to miss hearing them.
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Sept. 6, 2016
Crackle’s StartUp Is a No Go If you’ve seen any gritty crime dramas, then you’ve pretty much seen StartUp .
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Sept. 2, 2016
TV Review: Atlanta and Better Things These are two of the best new comedies of the fall.
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Aug. 29, 2016
The Night Of Didn’t Live Up to Its Best MomentsThe show did extraordinarily difficult things with confidence and grace while neglecting basics.
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Aug. 24, 2016
Sundance Channel’s Gomorrah Is an Unglamorized View Into Mob Life Gomorrah seems to be striving for a documentary aesthetic, and for the most part, the “you are there” tricks work quite well.
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Aug. 22, 2016
Halt and Catch Fire Is Still a Very Good Period Piece in Season ThreeIn season three, the show’s motto seems to be: If it ain’t broke, no need to call IT.
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Aug. 11, 2016
We’re Drunk in Love With The Wine Show Matthew Rhys. Matthew Goode. A whole lot of wine. Need we say more?
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Aug. 11, 2016
Netflix’s The Get Down Is a Spectacular Mixed Bag of a Show Anyone who watches this expecting it to be about the birth of hip-hop is going to be disappointed.
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July 22, 2016
Survivor’s Remorse ’s Third Season Is Its Best YetAfter two rocky first seasons, the LeBron James–produced series returns with episodes that are nothing but net.
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July 22, 2016
BoJack Horseman ’s Third Season Is TerrificWith its mix of curveball innovations and very BoJack elements, season three of Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s cartoon sitcom might be its best overall.
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July 15, 2016
The Problem With HBO’s Vice Principals Is this the right time to laugh at two white men trying to destroy a black woman?
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July 13, 2016
Stranger Things Is a Throwback to ’80s Chills and Spielbergian ThrillsCross Spielberg with a Stephen King novel and you’ve got this Netflix series.
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June 28, 2016
Game of Thrones ’ Sixth Season Was One of Its BestThe long, slow fuse finally caught up with the powder keg.
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June 24, 2016
HBO’s The Night Of Unfolds Like a Fat Crime Novel It’s the longest, bleakest Law & Order episode ever.
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June 22, 2016
Roadies Is Not Almost Famous , But It’s Almost SomethingCameron Crowe’s new series isn’t great, but there are moments that suggest it could be.
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June 21, 2016
OWN’s Greenleaf Is at Its Best When It Focuses on Spirituality Its missteps are a small price to pay for a show that tells a story we haven’t seen on TV before.
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June 3, 2016
Cinemax’s Outcast Approaches Horror in the Most Visceral Sense You know something is horribly wrong but you aren’t exactly sure what.
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June 2, 2016
UnREAL Is Back and Just As SeductiveUnREAL may be delving into the racial fray this season, but it’s still at its most compelling when it depicts being a woman in a misogynistic workplace.
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June 1, 2016
Do We Really Need the Variety Show to Make a Comeback? Maybe the variety show can’t be brought back from the dead, no matter how much talent is involved.
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May 27, 2016
The New Roots Is More Scathing and Pulls Fewer Punches The updated mini-series is more passionate, more sweeping, considerably angrier, and more disgusted by the physical and moral atrocities it depicts.
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May 21, 2016
HBO’s All the Way Has Scale, But Not Insight Where’s the feeling? Where’s the poetry? What happened?
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May 20, 2016
AMC’s Preacher Is a Peculiar Show That Both Hits and Misses I wish it had thought harder and found the courage to be even wilder and weirder.
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May 10, 2016
The Good Wife Wasn’t Perfect, But What a Great Show It WasThe slap and its aftermath distilled the entire series into 60 seconds.
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Apr. 25, 2016
Game of Thrones Feels Warmer in Its Sixth SeasonIt’s also still messing with us, just as we always knew it would.
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Apr. 16, 2016
HBO’s Confirmation Is a Competent, But Unremarkable Docudrama Its proximity to the broadcast of FX’s The People vs. O.J. Simpson makes its undistinguished competence more irritating.
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Apr. 15, 2016
Kimmy Schmidt Is Weirder, Better in Season TwoFor long stretches it barely remembers what it’s about and enters that trancelike comedy zone of one-damn-thing-after-another inventiveness.
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Apr. 8, 2016
Catastrophe Season Two’s Biggest Challenge: How to Top Season One?It’s not as blazingly fresh this time around, but the same wit and energy are still there.
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Apr. 5, 2016
Horace and Pete Embraces the SilenceIts style demands that you experience drama in a way that’s anathema to the values of contemporary television.
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Mar. 30, 2016
Hulu’s The Path Is a Good-Enough Show That probably would have benefited from the binge-watch model.
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Mar. 24, 2016
The Thomas Crown –Style Catch Who could have imagined that the original film starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway would birth an entire style?
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