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Oct. 14, 2019
Succession Is a Love StoryIn a very twisted way, the Succession finale is the purest expression of Kendall’s need for his father’s love.
tv review
Oct. 11, 2019
El Camino Gives Breaking Bad Fans Exactly What They WantTrue to the spirit of Breaking Bad and classic Westerns, El Camino is fan service executed at a very high level.
tv review
Oct. 10, 2019
Mr. Robot ’s Final Season Brings a Unique Vision Into FocusSeason four of the cyberthriller is a virtuosic culmination of everything creator Sam Esmail has built to date.
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Oct. 8, 2019
Looking for Alaska Is the Rare Adaptation That Improves on the OriginalHulu’s long-gestating miniseries adaptation of John Green’s 2005 YA novel moves the story closer to what it perhaps should’ve been in the first place.
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Oct. 7, 2019
Sorry for Your Loss and The Unicorn Grapple With Grief’s Long ShadowBoth series deal in the aftermath of personal catastrophe, but only one seeks to illuminate its complicated, lingering effects.
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Oct. 4, 2019
Batwoman Is a Lifeless Adaptation in Search of a HeroThe new CW series finds Kate Kane lost in the shadow of her Caped Crusader cousin.
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Oct. 4, 2019
Big Mouth Season 3 Takes a Bigger-Picture View of PubertyThe Netflix animated series is still about sexual transformation and boner jokes, but it’s increasingly about more than that.
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Sept. 27, 2019
Bless the Harts Shakes Up Animation DominationThe promising new series from Emily Spivey is suggestive of what Fox’s Sunday night animation block has been, and what it could be in the future.
tv review
Sept. 26, 2019
How Is The Masked Singer Real? The Masked Singer is pure escapism, but you might think you’re losing your mind.
tv review
Sept. 26, 2019
Evil Is Smart, Scary, and PhilosophicalCan Michelle and Robert King just make all the CBS shows?
tv review
Sept. 25, 2019
The Politician Is Irritating, Exhausting, and Occasionally GloriousMuch like its high-school hero, Netflix’s new satirical drama from Ryan Murphy has an excess of ambition and chutzpah and a lack of meaningful ideas.
tv review
Sept. 24, 2019
Mixed-ish Is Still Finding ItselfThe Black-ish spinoff aims for warm-hearted wit but lands somewhere more in the realm of cloying bluntness.
tv review
Sept. 23, 2019
A Little Late With Lilly Singh Is a Promising BeginningThe first week suggests that Singh is charismatic and original enough to pull this off.
tv review
Sept. 19, 2019
Netflix’s Criminal Is More Thought Experiment Than Crime Procedural Spread across interrogation rooms in four countries, the series presents the notion that police work is basically the same no matter where you are.
tv review
Sept. 16, 2019
The Transparent Musicale Finale Is the Best and Worst of Transparent All in One The series concludes with a musical that teeters between self-parody and daring celebration, without ever fully falling on either side.
tv review
Sept. 13, 2019
Undone Is a Fascinating Head TripIt’s never quite clear where this new animated series from Bojack Horseman ’s Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy will jump to next.
tv review
Sept. 13, 2019
Ken Burns’s Country Music Is Powerful, Beautiful, and Somehow Still Incomplete The 16-hour, eight-part series doesn’t have as firm a handle on the big-picture stuff as it wants you to think.
tv review
Sept. 13, 2019
Unbelievable Is a Radical, Exceptional Crime SeriesThe Netflix drama starring Merritt Wever and Toni Collette is less about finding the bad guy than it is about the value of understanding the victim.
tv review
Sept. 10, 2019
Bill Burr’s New Stand-up Special Is So Much Better Than Its First 4 Minutes Paper Tiger is a thoughtful and surprising set on shame and emotional repression.
tv review
Sept. 6, 2019
The Deuce Shows Its True Self in Its Final SeasonThe third and final season’s jump to the VHS era sets the stage for a reckoning with the endless churn of American economic history.
tv review
Sept. 5, 2019
Good Talk With Anthony Jeselnik Is Part Talk Show, Part Sparring MatchThe series’ sincere-ish conversations about comedy live and die by how well guests can navigate the spiky trap of Jeselnik’s persona.
tv review
Sept. 5, 2019
The Spy Feels Like a Memorial Plaque Turned Into a MiniseriesNetflix’s six-part miniseries is a functional but inert take on the story of Eli Cohen, played with unblinking straightness by Sacha Baron Cohen.
tv review
Aug. 28, 2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Staggering AchievementWatching Netflix’s new prequel to Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s 1982 feature film is like watching a ten-hour magic show.
tv review
Aug. 28, 2019
13 Reasons Why I Couldn’t Stand 13 Reasons Why Season 3 The latest season of the Netflix teen drama strikes more wrong notes than we can count. Wait, sorry — we actually can count them.
tv review
Aug. 23, 2019
This Way Up Is an Amiable But Aimless Exploration of RecoveryThe British series starring Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan is at its best when facing ugly emotions rather than hiding them with humor.
tv review
Aug. 23, 2019
In On Becoming a God in Central Florida, the Real Pyramid Scheme Is America Kirsten Dunst’s new Showtime series centers on a subculture desperate to transcend the financial burdens and repetitious obligations of American life.
tv review
Aug. 22, 2019
The Affair : Once More Into the OceanMaura Tierney’s performance anchors the Showtime drama as it navigates its fifth and final season.
tv review
Aug. 22, 2019
Why Women Kill ’s Consideration of Women’s Anger Is Fun, But HollowThe new multi-timeline series from Marc Cherry (Desperate Housewives ) has a great Ginnifer Goodwin performance, but not a strong point of view.
tv review
Aug. 21, 2019
Pose Ends an Endearingly Messy Season in Endearingly Messy Fashion“In My Heels” caps off a meandering season that too often prioritized incident over the more life-sized drama that makes the series special.
tv review
Aug. 20, 2019
Mindhunter Season Two Is Questioning Us, TooNetflix’s serial killer drama will immediately worm its way back into your head, but not without sparking a bout of self-examination.
tv review
Aug. 16, 2019
The Righteous Gemstones Doesn’t Quite Get a HallelujahDespite a strong cast, Danny McBride’s HBO comedy about preaching doesn’t know who its choir is.
tv review
Aug. 15, 2019
Diagnosis Is Not Your Typical Medical Mystery ShowThe moving and nuanced Netflix docuseries, based on the New York Times Magazine column, is a mix of genres: reality, detective, and emotional drama.
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Aug. 13, 2019
Let’s Talk About Legion ’s Strangely Moving Series Finale Noah Hawley’s feast of the senses didn’t always work, but it ends on a note of beautiful melancholy.
tv review
Aug. 12, 2019
The Family Puts a Secret Group In the Spotlight, But Needs Stronger WattageThe Netflix docuseries connects some dots regarding the religious right and American politics, but it doesn’t add up to more than a basic outline.
tv review
Aug. 12, 2019
Infamy Is a New Sort of Terror A radical departure from season one, the AMC series’ newest installment sets its horror fantasy against a very different historical backdrop.
tv review
Aug. 8, 2019
GLOW Goes Deeper and Gets Even Better in Season ThreeThere’s more introspection than spandex in the new season. But don’t worry: There’s definitely still spandex.
tv review
Aug. 7, 2019
BH90210 Has Its Nostalgia Both WaysThe weird, compulsively watchable reboot earnestly indulges viewers’ affection for the original series with a highly meta wink.
tv review
Aug. 6, 2019
Derry Girls Is Teen TV at Its BestThe Channel 4/Netflix series resists the easy traps that so often hinder teen shows.
tv review
Aug. 5, 2019
Euphoria ’s Finale Was Visually Stunning, But What’s Beneath the Sheen?The first season of HBO’s messy teen drama ends on an ambiguous but compelling note.
tv review
Aug. 5, 2019
Succession Season Two Is Merciless, Cruel, and Better Than EverThe barbarian capitalists of the Roy clan are back. And so is Succession ’s acid-bath viciousness.
tv review
Aug. 2, 2019
A Black Lady Sketch Show Is Pure, Funny FireRobin Thede’s new HBO comedy half-hour is hilarious and surprising.
tv review
Aug. 2, 2019
Dear White People Leans Into Its Difficulties in a Compellingly Messy Season 3The season is a bit of a train wreck, but it’s a glorious one, spilling food for thought everywhere.
tv review
Aug. 1, 2019
Sherman’s Showcase Is More Than a Sketch-Comedy Nostalgia TripThe clever, sneakily weird IFC series is a glittering heap of invention that imagines a rich alternate cultural history.
tv review
July 30, 2019
Four Weddings and a Funeral , I Think I Don’t Love YouThe new Hulu series inspired by the film seems more interested in tipping its hat to rom-coms past than building a unique love story of its own.
tv review
July 26, 2019
The Boys Transcends the Dark, Gritty Superhero SlogThe new Amazon series’s cynical, superpowered world is nothing new, but some of its points about that world are.
tv review
July 26, 2019
Another Life Is a Clumsy Muddle of Superior Science-Fiction StoriesThe new Netflix series can’t seem to make up its mind whether to be smart and challenging or trashy and shallow.
tv review
July 24, 2019
Orange Is the New Black ’s Final Season Sticks the LandingThe show that helped launch a new era of TV goes out on a brutal, unambiguous, and surprisingly emotional note.
tv review
July 22, 2019
How Big Little Lies Lost Its Way in Season Two After a promising start, season two’s increased focus on Celeste’s custody battle ended up undermining what made the first season so compelling.
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