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tv review Oct. 2, 2014

Everyone on NBC’s Bad Judge Deserves Better[bangs gavel]

By Margaret Lyons
tv review Oct. 2, 2014

Gracepoint Fails to Offer Any Reasons for Its ExistenceThey’re as close to the same shows as they can be and still have been made in different years by different people.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Oct. 1, 2014

Stalker Is Just the Latest CBS Fear ProductStarring Dylan McDermott and Maggie Q.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
fall tv 2014 Sept. 30, 2014

TV Review: Manhattan Love Story Is Not LovableIt is set in Manhattan. We’ll give it that.

By Margaret Lyons
tv review Sept. 30, 2014

TV Review: Selfie Is Just Slightly Out of FocusThere’s a better show in here somewhere.

By Margaret Lyons
tv review Sept. 26, 2014

Amazon’s Transparent Is Damn Near PerfectAnd it’s only ten episodes, so savor them.

By Margaret Lyons
tv review Sept. 25, 2014

TV Review: How to Get Away with MurderExecutive-produced by Shonda Rhimes and created by Peter Nowalk.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
fall tv 2014 Sept. 24, 2014

In Its Own Sweet Way, ABC’s black-ish Is a Landmark ShowStarring Anthony Anderson as the patriarch of an upper-middle-class African-American family.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
fall tv 2014 Sept. 22, 2014

TV Review: If CBS’s Scorpion Is About Geniuses, Why Is It So Dumb?The characters mention their IQs four times in the first 18 minutes.

By Margaret Lyons
tv review Sept. 22, 2014

It’s Live, Die, Repeat for Ioan Gruffudd in ABC’s ForeverIt’s risky to base an entire TV show around the charisma of your lead actor.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Sept. 22, 2014

TV Review: Grade Gotham on the Superhero CurveThe superhero curve = anything not terrible is good.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Sept. 19, 2014

TV Review: Madam SecretaryChanneling The West Wing, but not often enough.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Sept. 18, 2014

TV Review: Ken Burns’s The RooseveltsThe seven-part series debuted Sunday night.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Sept. 17, 2014

TV Review: Red Band Society — Isn’t Cancer Fun?More like Red Bland Society, am I right?

By Margaret Lyons
tv review Sept. 17, 2014

Mysteries of Laura Is a Bad Show. It’s a Bad, Bad Show.Did you know sometimes moms do things?

By Margaret Lyons
tv review Sept. 7, 2014

TV Review: Boardwalk Empire’s Final SeasonIf anything, season five feels like a regression to tendencies that dogged the show early on.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Aug. 13, 2014

Legends Provides Good Actors With Steady Paychecks and Not Much ElseLet’s just get the obligatory “Sean Bean lives” joke out of the way, shall we?

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Aug. 7, 2014

Outlander Is No Game of Thrones, But That’s a Good ThingYou will enjoy this time-travel period piece from the guy who rebooted Battlestar Galactica.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Aug. 5, 2014

Cinemax’s Terrific The Knick Is a Statement About the PastClive Owen is a bigoted, coked-up surgeon in the period drama from Steven Soderbergh.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Aug. 1, 2014

I Spent 4 Seasons Waiting for The Killing to Be Great. It Didn’t Happen.The show returned today for its final season on Netflix.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review July 31, 2014

The Honorable Woman Requires Much Patience — and That’s a Good ThingStarring Maggie Gyllenhaal.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review July 30, 2014

TV Review: WGN America’s Manhattan Gets BetterCome for the pilot, stick around for the second episode.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review July 25, 2014

TV Review: Manhattan Is Strong But Not ExplosiveAs in the Manhattan Project.

By Margaret Lyons
tv review July 17, 2014

TV Review: FX’s Married and USA’s SatisfactionWe’re coupling together two shows about wedded couples.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review July 15, 2014

Robert Rodriguez’s Matador Is an Enjoyably Ludicrous TV Spy DramaIt airs on the El Rey Network.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review July 11, 2014

TV Review: Guillermo del Toro’s The StrainLike getting a great, dumb B-movie on your television every week.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review July 9, 2014

TV Review: ExtantHalle Berry stars in a new CBS drama produced by Steven Spielberg.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review June 30, 2014

HBO’s 112 Weddings Shows American Marriages in Good Times and in BadThis movie is knowing, and sometimes ruefully ironic, without ever seeming smug.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review June 27, 2014

Review: HBO’s The Leftovers Is All Bleakness All the TimeGod declines to rapture a mopey Justin Theroux.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review June 27, 2014

Orange Is the New Black ’s S2 Had 1 True VillainThere’s only one bad person in this whole prison?

By Margaret Lyons
tv review June 26, 2014

ABC’s NY Med Is an Almost Freakishly Absorbing Documentary SeriesIt’s finally back for season two.

By Margaret Lyons
tv review June 19, 2014

TV Review: Rectify Season 2The final sequence in tonight’s premiere is one of the most affecting things our critic has ever seen on TV.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv June 5, 2014

TV Review: Orange Is the New Black Season 2The series is a gentle rebuke to the reflexive whiteness and straightness of the rest of TV.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review May 30, 2014

Seitz: Halt and Catch Fire Is an Original Idea That Feels Like a CopyAMC’s latest prestige drama is set in the Texas computer industry in 1983.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review May 23, 2014

Seitz: HBO’s Messy, Powerful The Normal Heart Rages Against AIDS AmnesiaDirected by Ryan Murphy and starring Mark Ruffalo as an AIDS activist.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review May 20, 2014

TV Review: The Maya Rudolph ShowThe show has plenty of promise. But a few problems, too.

By Margaret Lyons
tv review May 11, 2014

Seitz: Showtime’s Penny Dreadful Is a Wonderful SurpriseStarring Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, and Josh Hartnett as Victorian-era adventurers.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review May 9, 2014

Seitz: Rosemary’s Baby Can’t Escape the Influence of Papa PolanskiStarring Zoe Saldana as the titular mother.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review May 8, 2014

Seitz on Maron Season 2: Has Video Killed This Radio Star?The show returns tonight on IFC.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review May 5, 2014

TV Review: Louie Season 4The fourth season of Louie is amazingly confident.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review May 5, 2014

TV Review: 24: Live Another DayIt’s hard to write an advance review of 24: Live Another Day without spoiling something.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Apr. 29, 2014

TV Review: Last Week Tonight With John OliverSunday’s premiere had an unmistakable Daily Show vibe, but only at the start.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Apr. 21, 2014

Seitz on The Boondocks Season 4: What’s Wrong With This Picture?The show returns tonight without its creator, Aaron McGruder.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Apr. 15, 2014

TV Review: Ken Burns’s Documentary The AddressAiring tonight on PBS.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Apr. 15, 2014

Seitz on FX’s Fargo: Misanthropic, Ruthless, and Very SmartThis new miniseries stars Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Apr. 11, 2014

Seitz on Mad Men Season 7: The Sad Spectacle of MisbehaviorEven when characters seem to be moving toward happiness, their progress is agonizingly slow.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Apr. 4, 2014

Seitz on Game of Thrones Season 4: TV’s Most Exhilarating NightmareIt’s amazing how a show so bleak can still be so engrossing.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Apr. 4, 2014

Seitz: Silicon Valley’s Version of Machismo Is Hilarious, and Feels NewIt captures a world you’ve rarely seen depicted with intelligence or care.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Mar. 27, 2014

TV Review: Surviving JackFox’s new show is about an oncologist/dad.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
tv review Mar. 20, 2014

Seitz on Comedy Central’s Review: Like Jackass in PleatsIf you ask, “What’s the point?” about Comedy Central’s buttoned-down humiliation-based series, you might not get an answer.

By Matt Zoller Seitz