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  1. tv review
    Big Little Lies Was Plagued by Messy Drama on Both Sides of the CameraBut Meryl was great.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Veronica Mars Returns to Neptune, Seedy and Seductive As EverThe Hulu revival succeeds by returning to what made the series great, while sidestepping the perils of easy nostalgia.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Love Island Is Boring, But Hard to EscapeOne week in, the new CBS version of the U.K. reality franchise remains unknowably vague — and strangely comforting.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Memo to CBS: Let Alan Cumming Be Alan Cumming!The network procedural Instinct harbors a freak flag that its creators and stars aren’t able to fly.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Aziz Ansari Reckons With HimselfAnsari’s Netflix special is intentionally full of contradictions, and he has no interest in trying to resolve them.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    In Stranger Things 3 the Horror Is Messier, But the Thrills Are FamiliarThe highly anticipated season edges into some new territory, but mostly leans hard on what’s worked before.
    By Jen Chaney
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    The Loudest Voice Is All Bluster and Little InsightRussell Crowe plays Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes with zeal (and awkward prosthetics) in a Showtime series that’s more about the what than the why.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Years and Years Is a Gripping Account of a Society’s Existential CrisisWhen this bitter pill of an ostensibly speculative miniseries is firing on all cylinders, it plays like a fusion of This Is Us and Children of Men.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Euphoria Review: Freaks and DicksThe bleak, nudity-filled HBO teen series is no-holds-barred, for better and for worse.
    By Jen Chaney
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    City on a Hill Offers Nostalgia for Boston’s Rough-and-Tumble Past, Little ElseThe new Showtime series hearkens back to a more racist, more physically criminal era with a lot of affection and not much scrutiny.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Los Espookys Is Wry, Oddball Horror-ComedyThe spirit of Scooby-Doo is alive and well in this HBO comedy, though it’s more like Scooby-Doo in reverse.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Queen Sugar Returns in Fine FormFour seasons in, the series pulls off realistic family drama with such assurance that it satisfies in the manner of a much bigger, louder show.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    In Trinkets, Teen Shoplifters Form an AllianceAs a story about three high-school girls who become unlikely friends, the new Netflix series is a solid teen show — but something’s missing.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Younger Is Still a Fizzy, Guiltless Pleasure in Season 6The TV Land series may have lost some urgency around the matter of Liza’s Big Secret, but it’s still as smart and fun as ever.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Pose Season Two Endures a Deadly Era With Love and GraceTwo years on from season one, the world is even more dangerous for the series’s marginalized characters, and their found families even more important.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Netflix’s Tales of the City Mistakes Sweetness for SimplicityIn its effort to replicate the earnest sentimentality of the original 1994 miniseries, the revival loses some much-needed complexity.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Black Mirror Season Five Is Exquisitely DumbIn this short, three-episode season, Black Mirror loses its unnerving edge.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Big Little Lies Season Two Is Worth the WaitI thought a second season might be overkill. I was very wrong.
    By Jen Chaney
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    In The Handmaid’s Tale Season 3, Gilead’s Still Gonna GileadThe third season of the Hulu series explores the limitations of systemic reform while feeling a bit stuck in place.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Deadwood: The Movie, At Long LastDavid Milch’s summation, benediction, and farewell to Deadwood is a story about the necessity of saying good-bye.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    When They See Us Is an Intimate, Sensitive Look at the Central Park Five TragedyThe famous rape case and wrongful convictions are revisited in this thoughtful, well-acted Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Good Omens Makes for a Cheerful ApocalypseBut it doesn’t quite pull together as a great, glorious, goofy Almighty plan.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Running With Beto Says More About the Political Climate Than About Beto O’RourkeThe HBO documentary sidesteps mythologizing its subject in favor of capturing a flash point in Texas political history.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Vida’s Latinx, Queer Perspective Is More Distinctive, and Vital, Than EverWhat makes the Starz series groundbreaking TV is also what makes it very good TV.
    By Jen Chaney
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    ABC’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons Live Special Was a Retro DelightNot just another shallow attempt to wallow in television nostalgia.
    By Jen Chaney
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    In Not Normal, Wanda Sykes Does Not Come to PlayThe stand-up is in peak form when she gets personal in her new Netflix special.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Barry Season Two Saved Its Biggest Surprise for the Very EndBill Hader’s HBO show was great in its first season. This time around, it’s been exceptional.
    By Jen Chaney
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    The Big Bang Theory Was a Pop-Culture Black HoleIt was a dominant sitcom that sucked in nerd culture, but never reflected back anything it absorbed.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Better Things Season 3 Tackled Aging With Warmth and HonestyIt was Pamela Adlon’s ode to the messiness of turning 50.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Fleabag Season Two Is PerfectPhoebe Waller-Bridge’s Amazon series retains everything that made its first season great, and then throws in a hot priest for good measure.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Hulu’s Catch-22 Finds Some Humanity in a Classic SatireThis George Clooney–produced adaptation works better as a TV show than you might think.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Chernobyl’s Unsparing Account of Nuclear Disaster Is a Lot to TakeHBO’s five-part mini-series is a philosophical gut-punch, a reminder that there’s no disaster that can’t be made worse through human pettiness.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The Spanish Princess Is Worth Watching for the Hats AloneThe story and characters, on the other hand, still need some work.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Netflix’s Dead to Me Is Highly Watchable, But Is That Enough?The new thriller/comedy starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini goes down easy, but the season as a whole feels weirdly underbaked.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    The Act Ended As It Began, Cloaked in Nearly Impenetrable SadnessHulu’s true-crime mini-series brings the tragic tale of Gypsy and Dee Dee Blanchard to a powerful but somewhat confounding conclusion.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Tuca & Bertie Feels Like a Classic Sitcom Set Inside a Surreal DreamscapeLisa Hanawalt’s new Netflix series may look like BoJack Horseman, but it’s a much lighter, wackier, and more aggressively disorienting experience.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Why Was ‘The Long Night’ So Hard to Actually See? Here’s a Theory.The biggest Game of Thrones battle ever felt like one of the most expensive missed opportunities in TV history.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The Red Line Tackles Institutional Racism With a Human TouchThe CBS mini-series about the aftermath of a Chicago police shooting finds a narrative sweet spot at the intersection of The Wire and This Is Us.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Our Planet Is a Beautiful but Punishing Glimpse of Earth’s Worst-Case ScenarioNetflix’s new David Attenborough–narrated nature documentary series feels like the biggest, nicest snuff film ever made.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Netflix’s Street Food Serves Up Artful Cuisine With a Side of DespairThis otherwise familiar documentary series is distinguished by the tales of poverty, survival, and eventual triumph looming over its featured chefs.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    In His First Special in 20 Years, Howie Mandel Surfs the CrowdIn his recent special, Mandel is most himself when pinging his energy off someone else.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    On My Block’s Second Season Contains MultitudesThe likable Netflix show swings ambitiously and assuredly between seemingly incompatible modes, and sticks the landing more often than not.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    HBO’s Gentleman Jack Is a Modern Lesbian Tale Trapped in a 19th-Century WorldThe setting of HBO’s new period drama may be genteel and steady, but protagonist Anne Lister, a.k.a. the “first modern lesbian,” is decidedly not.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Ramy Isn’t Telling a Universal Story. That’s Why It’s So Good.Ramy Youssef’s new Hulu comedy is fantastically adept at identifying the absurdities in its protagonist’s many overlapping, often conflicting roles.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    This Is the Best Game of Thrones Premiere Since the PilotIt gives me hope that this final season will be a return to what made the series work so well at the start.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    No, You Can’t Kill Bear Grylls in His Netflix Interactive ShowYou vs. Wild offers viewer-players a mishmash of survival-themed reality and fiction that escapes both categories to become something else entirely.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Netflix’s Special Lives Up to Its NameRyan O’Connell’s significantly autobiographical series about a gay man with cerebral palsy finding his way is introspective, gutsy, and far too brief.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Fosse/Verdon Is Made for Hardcore Fans of Showbiz HistoryIt’s hard to imagine more delectable bait for fans of Broadway and Hollywood tales.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The True Love Story of Crazy Ex-GirlfriendThis isn’t the happily-ever-after ending Rebecca Bunch moved to West Covina for. It’s better.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Warrior Blends Martial Arts and Hard-boiled Crime in an Arresting American TaleBetween its macho fights, this Cinemax series is about the idea of Americanness and who’s allowed to claim it.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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