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My Next Guest Needs No Introduction Is a Very Different Kind of Letterman ShowDavid Letterman’s Netflix talk show could go wherever his mind decides to wander.
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David Bowie: The Last Five Years Brings a Pop Icon Back to LifeOn what would have been Bowie’s 71st birthday, a terrific documentary about the last chapter of his career.
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The Chi Is an Exuberant, Heartfelt DramaIt’s the little character details that make The Chi feel so alive.
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The End of the F***ing World Isn’t Nearly As Bleak As It LooksWhat starts out as a dark British drama ultimately finds glimmers of humanity.
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The X-Files Is Sublime in Season 11If you’re a fan of this show, you’ll find a lot to enjoy.
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Grown-ish Still Has Some Growing to DoThe Black-ish spinoff has potential, but like most college students, it’s trying to find itself.
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Dave Chappelle Is Mostly Disappointing in His New Netflix SpecialsChappelle is one of the most important American comedians of the last 20 years, but you can’t see that clearly here.
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The Debut Episode of 9-1-1 Is SensationalRyan Murphy’s Fox series about first responders is engrossing, intense, and stars some great actors as lifesavers.
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Black Mirror’s New Season Is a Little Light, Until It Gets Darker Than EverExcept for a strong episode directed by Jodie Foster, the season is too gratuitous and too gimmicky.
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Gunpowder Is Not at All ExplosiveDespite the presence of Kit Harington, this HBO mini-series about the Gunpowder Plot is dull.
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Jean-Claude Van Johnson Whiffs on Hollywood SatireBut the onetime action superstar delivers a pleasant shrug of a performance.
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Wormwood Is an Amazing Story About a CIA Murder MysteryLike every Errol Morris project, Wormwood is obsessed with seeking the truth.
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The Crown’s Second Season Is Essential TVSettle in for some sumptuous, instructive royal watching.
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Happy! Strikes a Winking Macho PoseIt’s as if Mickey Rourke’s character from Sin City had been pasted into Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Netflix’s Easy Is Still One of the Best Shows No One Is Talking AboutThe second season is just as appealing as the first, and a bit sharper overall.
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Can We Talk About How Charming The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Is?Amy Sherman-Palladino’s latest will feel familiar to Gilmore Girls fans.
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Godless Is So Good, You’ll Like It Even If You Don’t Like WesternsIn many ways, it’s like your grandfather’s Western. But it also speaks to your mom and your sister and your best girlfriend.
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Marvel’s Runaways Isn’t Quite a Teenage DreamThe latest superhero show has potential as a high-school drama, but requires some patience.
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Search Party Season 2 Is a Twist on Antihero DramaThe TBS series is dealing with a lot of baby Walter Whites.
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Better Things Doesn’t Need Louis C.K.Why Pamela Adlon’s brilliant show could be better without the participation of Louis C.K.
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The Punisher Is an Ultraviolent MistakeThe Marvel series has a childlike worship of Frank Castle’s flamboyant bloodlust.
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American Horror Story: Cult Was a Missed OpportunityIt was a bold idea, but AHS: Cult didn’t tell us anything substantive about the Trump era.
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Future Man Is a Bawdy, Tiresome Riff on Sci-Fi ClassicsThe Hulu comedy Future Man is not unwatchable, but it’s pretty bad.
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The Amazon Fall 2017 Pilots, ReviewedSea Oak, starring Glenn Close, is the strongest out of the gate.
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SMILF Is Almost GreatFrankie Shaw’s Showtime series has promise in its initial episodes that it almost fulfills.
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Alias Grace Is Another Gripping Margaret Atwood–Inspired TV ShowIt’s tonally different from The Handmaid’s Tale, but just as timely.
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The Deuce Is a Hard Show to Watch, But It’s Also Hard to Look AwayOnly the show’s mix of compassion and bleak humor prevents it from being a total bummer.
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Stranger Things 2 Was Worth the WaitThe second season of the Netflix sci-fi hit is just as good as the first.
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Too Funny to Fail Captures the Legacy of the Audacious Dana Carvey ShowIf you know very little about the button-pushing comedy series, the 90-minute film will be a revelation.
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Mindhunter Is a Crime Drama That Lands at the Right Cultural MomentThe Netflix series is as much about the male psyche as it is about the crimes of its serial killers.
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White Famous Is a Stale, Pandering Look at HollywoodThe timing for it, amid the Harvey Weinstein scandal, could not be worse.
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Mr. Robot Returns to Form in Season ThreeElliot and E Corp are back, in suspenseful, dense, and enigmatic style.
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The CW’s Dynasty Knows Exactly What It IsThe reboot tries to build on one of TV’s biggest soapy fortunes, rather than leech off it like a trust-fund brat.
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Spielberg Is a Rich, Personal Look at Hollywood’s Most Successful FilmmakerEven if you think you know everything about Steven Spielberg, this HBO documentary is still very much worth your time.
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Kevin (Probably) Saves the World Isn’t (Quite) a Good ShowJason Ritter is great, but the first episode is all over the place.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Premiere Feels Like a Throwback in a Bad WayYou might think misanthropy would never go out of style, but here comes Curb to test that theory.
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The Vietnam War Is a Staggering Achievement in Documentary StorytellingThe 18-hour nonfiction epic is a thorough, engrossing dive into history.
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Netflix’s Big Mouth Is Your Childhood in Disgusting, Humiliating DetailThe new animated comedy, co-created by Nick Kroll, is quietly groundbreaking.
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Will & Grace Is Back and It’s Like It Never LeftAfter a slightly off start, the NBC sitcom settles right back into its specific brand of silliness.
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Law & Order True Crime: Menendez Murders Is a DudThe result plays like the longest, soggiest L&O episode ever.
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Star Trek: Discovery Is a Stirring, Rare Work of Science FictionIt stands tall alongside the best-regarded incarnations of the Trek franchise even as it raids elements from all of them.
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