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    Killing Eve Season Two Maintains Its Sick, Distinctly Female Sense of HumorSandra Oh, Jodie Comer, and everything else about this spy show still rule.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Loses Some of Its MagicSabrina is still enthralling, but something’s amiss in the arch, decadently conceived world of Greendale.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    You’re the Worst Nailed a Simply Perfect FinaleThe anti-rom-com rom-com ended exactly the way it should have.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Kevin Hart’s Irresponsible Is Hilarious, But Feels IncompleteHart’s new special has some solidly funny moments, but its roller-coaster pace is its biggest weakness.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    In Veep’s Final Season, How Low Will Selina Meyer Go?The HBO comedy is still as hilarious and razor-sharp as ever.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Barry Is Still, Thankfully, As Dark As EverThe HBO series starring Bill Hader as a conflicted hit man is still taking sharp shots in season two.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone Reboot Is Timeless, Modern, and PoliticalIt looks at paranoia, class disparity, xenophobia, and racism from the perspective of an outsider who had to fight for his piece of American pie.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Abby’s Feels Like a Vintage Sitcom in Need of Fresh AirThe Michael Schur–produced NBC sitcom is very transparently a Cheers update, but it’s still figuring out the “update” part.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    If You Liked What We Do in the Shadows As a Movie, You’ll Love It As a TV ShowThe FX spinoff of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s vampire comedy is silly, mildly perverse, and appealingly low stakes.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Jane the Virgin Goes Back to the BeginningThe fifth and final season of the CW’s excellent telenovela is giddy, tearful, joyful, and gasp-inducing.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Mental Samurai Is a Game Show With Rob Lowe and a Giant Robot ArmYet somehow it isn’t must-watch TV.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    The OA Part II is a Glorious, Ridiculous Mind-benderYou’ll either love it or you’ll hate it. Unless you’re just totally confused by it.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Amy Schumer Is Growing But Not Sure What It All MeansThe comedian’s new Netflix special tackles pregnancy and illness, but it mostly sticks to the superficial.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Zombie Epic Kingdom Is Remarkable and ResonantThis South Korean series, currently streaming on Netflix, is a disturbing parable about a society with a death wish.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Billions Season 4 Goes for BrokeThe Showtime series keeps things fresh by inverting its central relationships and leaning into its goofy, go-for-broke mentality.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Catastrophe’s Final Season Is Meditative, But Still HilariousAfter 24 episodes and 12 hours, we know Rob and Sharon about as well as we know anyone.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The Act Explores a True-life Tragedy in Wrenching DetailExceptional performances from Patricia Arquette and Joey King enliven Hulu’s limited-series telling of the story of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
    By Jen Chaney
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    The Case Against Adnan Syed Is an Empathetic ReckoningIn this HBO docuseries, Hae Min Lee rightfully becomes the center of a murder case that’s captivated millions.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Hulu’s Shrill Is a Funny, Fabulous Showcase for Aidy BryantThe SNL standout shines in this new Hulu dramedy.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Queer Eye Season Three Is Fun, But a Little Too FamiliarWe may have reached the tipping point on Tan’s French tucks.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Good Lord, What Happened to American Gods?With so much behind-the-scenes drama, it’s a minor miracle that season two is watchable at all. But watchable is a far cry from thrilling.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Hold on Tight, The Good Fight Season 3 Is a Wild RideThe series’s gloriously heady mishmash of the silly and the serious feels true to the experience of being alive today, for better or worse.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Now Apocalypse Is a Mixed Bag, But at Least It’s an Original Mixed BagGregg Araki’s idiosyncratic look at Hollywood’s margins is far from perfect. But it’s so audacious that even when it isn’t working, it’s working.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Doom Patrol Breathes New Life Into Superhero TVThe DC Universe show subverts comic-book expectations in ways both uproarious and heart-wrenching.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
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    Leaving Neverland Is a Chilling Indictment of Michael Jackson’s LegacyThe HBO doc illuminates not just Jackson’s alleged underage sex abuse, but the forces that kept people from talking about it.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The 2019 Oscars Didn’t Need a HostAfter a stripped-down ceremony that felt more elegantly paced than usual, should the Oscars ditch hosts for good?
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Whiskey Cavalier Is Sweet, Silly, and FamiliarThis ABC dramedy aims at goofy fun and actually hit its target.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    At Home With Amy Sedaris Is a Bizarre ComfortSedaris continues to be her delightfully weird domestic self in season two of her TruTV sketch-comedy series.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Documentary Now! Is So Much More Than ParodyIn its third season, the IFC comedy goes beyond filmmaking karaoke to tell strange, poignant, mesmerizing stories.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Pamela Adlon’s Better Things Returns Stronger Than EverEven when the characters are making a mess of things, it’s a pleasure to watch because so much care and thought have gone into each frame and line.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Dating Around Is a Sneakily Great Reality ShowThe low-stakes Netflix show leans into everything that other dating shows aggressively avoid.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    The Umbrella Academy Has No Personality of Its OwnYou won’t find anything in this Netflix comic-book adaptation that feels truly original, organic, or personal.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Amazon’s Lorena Docuseries Will Make You Rethink the Bobbitt CaseThe Amazon docuseries takes a deeper look at the woman who became infamous for cutting off her husband’s penis in 1993.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Miracle Workers Fades Into the So-So BeyondSteve Buscemi is God, but this TBS comedy doesn’t have much higher power.
    By Jen Chaney
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    One Day at a Time Is Still Old School in Its Third SeasonIn season three, this traditional sitcom has more obvious flaws, but still has plenty of charms, too.
    By Jen Chaney
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    PEN15 Is an Irresistible Millennial Coming-of-age SeriesThe Hulu series finds creators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle going back to middle school to tap into all your Y2K nostalgia.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Ray Romano’s Netflix Special Is Stand-up Without FussDon’t expect much from Romano’s first special in 23 years.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The Ted Bundy Tapes Examines an Infamous Killer, But Finds Only a VoidThe Netflix doc is brilliantly structured and edited, but it ultimately elides the stories of Bundy’s victims.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Abducted in Plain Sight Is a Documentary That Must Be Seen to Be BelievedThink of the wildest story you’ve ever heard, multiply it by 50, and then you’ll have a sense of how nuts this doc is.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Russian Doll Is a Brilliant, Surreal Show About Women in PowerWhich is why it’s such a bummer that Louis C.K.’s former manager is producing it.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ends But Still Feels Alive, DammitThis Tina Fey sitcom is still smart as hell.
    By Jen Chaney
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    The Other Two Is the Year’s First Great New ComedyThe Comedy Central sitcom about the adult siblings of a preteen pop star is great, right from the get-go.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Broad City Is Back for One Last Time, and That Feels RightAbbi and Ilana are still funny, but Broad City is taking its final bow at the right moment.
    By Jen Chaney
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    I Quit Watching The Magicians and That Was a Huge MistakeNow in its fourth season, the Syfy fantasy drama is a weird, dark, totally unpredictable romp.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    SMILF Season Two Is an Intimate Portrait of Womanhood, With an AsteriskDespite allegations about SMILF creator Frankie Shaw, season two excels at depicting the personal struggles of its women.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Star Trek: Discovery Season Two Is More Typical and Less InterestingTurning Discovery into the Trek version of Guardians of the Galaxy isn’t the solution.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Which Fyre Festival Documentary Is Right for You?Honestly, the Netflix and Hulu docs are both worth your time.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Black Monday Isn’t Worth the InvestmentIn the ’80s Wall Street comedy, greed is good, and also one-dimensional.
    By Jen Chaney
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    What Is True Detective, Really?The third season of HBO’s crime anthology has another bona fide star in Mahershala Ali, but it doesn’t answer this fundamental question.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The Passage Is Decent, at a Time When Decent Might Not Be EnoughFox’s adequate adaptation of Justin Cronin’s vampire novel keeps exposition and plot development flowing at the cost of nuance.
    By Jen Chaney
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