Tv Review

tv review Oct. 10, 2013

TV Review: Once Upon a Time in WonderlandIf you like Once Upon a Time …

By Margaret Lyons

fall tv 2013 Oct. 9, 2013

TV Review: American Horror Story: Coven PremiereThe first ten minutes rank with the most disgusting sequences ever aired on American TV.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Oct. 9, 2013

TV Review: Teen Sci-fi Gets Dour on The Tomorrow PeopleAnother teen sci-fi show.

By Margaret Lyons

tv review Oct. 3, 2013

TV Review: The Millers and Welcome to the FamilyTrying to milk laughs from solid gold cast members and failing miserably.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Oct. 3, 2013

Seitz on Sean Saves the World: Winning Cast, Serviceable SitcomThe cast is great. The jury’s still out on the other stuff.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

fall tv 2013 Sept. 29, 2013

Seitz on Masters of Sex: This Intelligent Drama Stays Sexy By Playing CoyThis new Showtime drama stars Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as a pair of sex researchers.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Sept. 26, 2013

Seitz on The Michael J. Fox Show: A Once-Lovable Imp Earns Some GravitasStarring the titular star, Breaking Bad’s Betsy Brandt, and Wendell Pierce.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

fall tv 2013 Sept. 26, 2013

Seitz on The Crazy Ones: A McDonald’s Ad Starring Robin WilliamsAn irreverence-free shill job with a Robin Williams vehicle wrapped around it.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

fall tv 2013 Sept. 24, 2013

Seitz on The Goldbergs: Remember the Eighties? This Sitcom Sure DoesThis new ABC comedy stars Jeff Garlin.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

fall tv 2013 Sept. 24, 2013

TV Review: ABC’s Trophy WifeThe new ABC comedy stars Bradley Whitford and Malin Akerman.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

fall tv 2013 Sept. 24, 2013

TV Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.The pilot episode has its share of Joss Whedon–y moments.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

fall tv 2013 Sept. 23, 2013

Seitz: Hostages Is a Treasure Trove of DumbThe new CBS drama stars Dylan McDermott and Toni Collette.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

fall tv 2013 Sept. 23, 2013

TV Review: CBS’s MomStarring Anna Faris and Allison Janney.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

fall tv 2013 Sept. 23, 2013

TV Review: NBC’s The BlacklistThis new NBC show stars James Spader as a criminal mastermind.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

fall tv 2013 Sept. 17, 2013

TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-NineAndy Samberg stars as a cop in this new Fox sitcom.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Sept. 17, 2013

Seitz: Fox’s Dads Is a Bad SitcomOld people suck! Asian stereotypes are hilarious! Wooooo! Just say no.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

fall tv 2013 Sept. 16, 2013

TV Review: Sleepy HollowThis new Fox show is a time-travel story, a conspiracy thriller, and a buddy-cop tale.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Sept. 12, 2013

Seitz: Netflix’s Derek Is the Gooiest Thing Ricky Gervais Has Ever DoneSeven episodes are now available to stream.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Sept. 3, 2013

Seitz: Luther Is Smart Enough to Just Let Idris Elba Be Idris ElbaSeason three premieres tonight on BBC America and runs all week.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Aug. 9, 2013

Seitz: Low Winter Sun Is Broken, BadlyThis could sound the death knell for the anti-hero drama.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Aug. 7, 2013

TV Review: Broadchurch Is Hurt by Murder FatigueIs it fair to like a well-crafted show less because you’ve been worn out by murder-in-a-small-town serials? No. But it is inevitable.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Aug. 4, 2013

Seitz on Breaking Bad’s Final SeasonCall it the Breaking Bad Certainty Principle.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review July 17, 2013

Seitz on Suits, or Why Certain Great TV Shows Get Ignored by CriticsSuits, which is just beginning its third season, might be the most purely entertaining series on television.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review July 14, 2013

TV Review: The Newsroom Season TwoIn season one, The Newsroom was the most insufferable good show on TV. How do its new episodes look?

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review July 11, 2013

TV Review: Orange Is the New BlackThis comedy-drama is about a clueless yuppie who gets sent to a women’s prison.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review July 10, 2013

Seitz on The Bridge: More Than Just a Tex-Mex Murder MysteryThis new border-set crime show marks a developmental milestone in the still-young history of FX.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

July 1, 2013

‘Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous’ Is Gonna Be MissedZach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous was almost an ideal summer show. The light-hearted MTV sitcom followed Bo Burnham as the titular Zach Stone, a […]

By Elise Czajkowski

tv review June 30, 2013

Seitz on Ray Donovan: When Irish Eyes Are AssimilatingShowtime’s series about a South Boston family that moves to LA to start a private investigation service feels like two shows.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review June 24, 2013

TV Review: Under the DomeCBS’s new summer series is based on a recent Stephen King novel.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review June 23, 2013

Seitz on Hannibal: It’s All a Dream, and It HurtsNBC’s serial killer show is consistently riveting and often brilliant.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review June 16, 2013

Seitz on Futurama’s Final (Final) FrontierThe series, which airs the back half of its final season starting June 19, is an undervalued gem.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review June 6, 2013

TV Review: GracelandCops on the beach in a giant house in this new USA show.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review May 31, 2013

TV Review: The Killing Season ThreeThe AMC procedural sometimes carries itself as if it’s the greatest series in the history of American television.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review May 30, 2013

TV Review: Seitz on Arrested DevelopmentOur TV critic “suspects it might be a classic.”

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review May 24, 2013

TV Review: Behind the CandelabraStarring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review May 19, 2013

Seitz: Look Past the Dragons in Game of ThronesIf its third season can’t help the fantasy genre lose its stigma, then nothing can.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review May 17, 2013

Seitz on The Office Finale: The Fondest FarewellDid he tear up because of the writing, or out of fondness for the show’s run? And does it matter?

By Matt Zoller Seitz

May 16, 2013

Seitz on Scandal’s Crazy Rush of a Second Season“I never imagined that I’d one day tell people that it gives me the same kind of crazy rush that I used to get from 24.”

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review May 10, 2013

Seitz: Christopher Guest’s Family Tree Is a Less Mocking MockumentaryHe doesn’t seem to be pointing and laughing at his characters like he did in Waiting for Guffman.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review May 5, 2013

Seitz on The Office’s Late RecoveryFew things on TV are as heartening as signs of life in a show that seemed creatively dead.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

May 3, 2013

‘Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous’ Is Gonna Be GoodZach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous walks a fine line. Co-created by and starring YouTube sensation turned comedy wunderkind Bo Burnham, the […]

By Elise Czajkowski

Apr. 30, 2013

‘Inside Amy Schumer’ is Much Better Than Any Awful Pun I Can Make HereInside Amy Schumer premieres tonight at 10:30 p.m. eastern on Comedy Central. Gander at your local cable box’s listings to confirm this. The […]

By Roger Cormier

tv review Apr. 23, 2013

Seitz on Sundance’s Rectify: So Old-School It Almost Seems New-SchoolThis new show is about a death-row inmate released back into society after many years away.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Apr. 14, 2013

Seitz on Prequels Hannibal and Bates MotelIn fact, they diverge rather drastically from what we already knew about their worlds.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Apr. 12, 2013

TV Review: Louis C.K.’s Oh My GodOh My God is the perfect title for a Louis C.K. special. It’s what you say when you watch his stand-up or his FX series.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

tv review Apr. 12, 2013