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May 17, 2017
Television’s
Best Shows Are Taking Their Cues From Literature How shows like Master of None , The Handmaid’s Tale, Jane the Virgin, and Big Little Lies are mining books for onscreen gold.
tv review
May 12, 2017
Jill Soloway’s I Love Dick Has a Mesmerizing Energy This half-hour series works like gangbusters part of the time.
May 11, 2017
Anne of Green Gables Fans, You Will Love Netflix’s Anne With an E The new Netflix series based on L.M. Montgomery’s books is lovely, but also not afraid to go dark.
May 10, 2017
Master of None ’s Second Season Is Even Better Than Its FirstThe new batch of episodes is on my short list for scripted show of the
year.
tv review
Apr. 30, 2017
American Gods Is a Bizarre, Dazzling ShowIt’s one of the strangest series ever to air on American television.
tv review
Apr. 27, 2017
Netflix’s Dear White People Is a Feat It’s superior in almost every way to Justin Simien’s 2014 same-named film.
tv review
Apr. 25, 2017
Genius = A Reasonably Good DramaIn which Einstein does higher math and, also, several women.
tv review
Apr. 24, 2017
Great News! Great News Is Great My only major complaint about this show is that I wish there were more of it.
tv review
Apr. 20, 2017
Silicon Valley Is As Sharp and Absurd As Ever in Its Fourth SeasonRichard Hendricks still has no chill, and we are grateful to the comedy gods for that.
tv review
Apr. 20, 2017
Netflix’s Girlboss Is a Letdown You may get frustrated with the heroine’s manic-pixie-jackass routine.
tv review
Apr. 13, 2017
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale Is Your Must-Watch Show This Spring The adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel is intense and instantly engrossing.
tv review
Apr. 12, 2017
Veep Is Back to Make America Hilarious AgainThe new season
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Apr. 12, 2017
The Leftovers Is Going Out on a High NoteSometimes you need a good cry, and this show continues to give it to you.
tv review
Apr. 6, 2017
The Son Is Such an AMC SeriesIt’s well-acted and solid and, like the bulk of AMC dramas, probably not going to generate much buzz.
tv review
Apr. 3, 2017
Big Little Lies Was a Heartfelt, Cathartic, and Unexpectedly Hopeful ShowUnderneath the scandals, gossip, dark secrets, and affairs, Big Little Lies was about the mechanics of tribal loyalty.
Mar. 28, 2017
On Viceland’s Jungletown, It’s the Messes That Make for Compelling TV Find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.
tv review
Mar. 27, 2017
TV Land’s Nobodies Isn’t Totally Fresh, But It’s Still Fun Showbiz gets squirmy in the Melissa McCarthy-produced series.
tv review
Mar. 21, 2017
Shots Fired Is an Ambitious Yet Accessible Look at Police ShootingsOnly in the current TV landscape would a show like Shots Fired qualify as very good rather than great.
tv review
Mar. 20, 2017
The Amazon Spring 2017 Pilots, Ranked From Strongest to Weakest The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a shoo-in to get a full season order.
tv review
Mar. 15, 2017
Netflix’s Iron Fist Is a Tedious, Unremarkable Bummer Coming on the heels of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage , this show feels like a regression.
tv review
Mar. 14, 2017
Trial & Error Tries Very Hard to Be FunnyThe new NBC comedy is guilty of a few too many forced jokes.
tv review
Mar. 12, 2017
American Crime Becomes More Subtle in Its 3rd SeasonThese are the kinds of crimes that might not
make a major newspaper. Which is the point.
Mar. 9, 2017
In Season Two, Love Gets Complicated Your relationship with this Netflix series may veer from love to hate and back again.
Mar. 7, 2017
The Americans Feels More Dire and Tense in Season 5Here, as always, The Americans does complex work that never calls attention to its
complexity.
tv review
Mar. 3, 2017
Feud’s Tepid Writing Doesn’t Do Its Actors or Its Subjects JusticeRyan Murphy’s limited series is a critique of Hollywood misogyny that fixates on its female stars’ pettiness and cruelty toward each other.
tv review
Feb. 23, 2017
Amazon’s Patriot Is an Oddball Show Who is the audience for Patriot ? I’m not sure, but the fact that it makes me ask that question counts as praise in my book.
tv review
Feb. 20, 2017
Planet Earth II Is the Rare Story to Show the Individual and the UniversalIt’s our favorite way to
try to see ourselves: As distinct individuals and members of universalized masses.
tv review
Feb. 16, 2017
The Good Fight Is Very Good TVThe follow-up to The Good Wife admirably does its own thing.
tv review
Feb. 15, 2017
Doubt Is Both Obvious and Better Than You Might ExpectKatherine Heigl’s new CBS show does that thing legal dramas do, but is elevated by its cast.
tv review
Feb. 14, 2017
Big Little Lies Is All Surprise, No SuspenseBut it’s still a must-see thanks to extraordinary performances from Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, and Adam Scott.
tv review
Feb. 13, 2017
Humans Is the Best Robot Show on TVThe AMC series is back with a season two that’s more fascinating than the first.
tv review
Feb. 10, 2017
Girls ’ Final Season Is Sublime and Exasperating All at OnceYou
have to accept the totality, including the parts you can’t stand, otherwise you
can’t watch the show at all.
tv review
Feb. 7, 2017
FX’s Legion Is a Decadently Inventive, Aesthetic Dream I found myself laughing out loud at the sheer
audacity of the damned thing.
Feb. 7, 2017
Comedy Central’s Detroiters Is Pretty Damn Funny Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson are here to act stupid. And they are never going to run out of stupid.
tv review
Feb. 3, 2017
Santa Clarita Diet Tells the Same Joke, Over and Over AgainYou’ll probably
let Netflix keep cycling through to the next episode rather than switching over
to something else.
Feb. 2, 2017
Training Day Is Cop TV at Its WorstThis CBS series, based on the Denzel Washington–Ethan Hawke film, is an inferior follow-up.
Feb. 2, 2017
Powerless Isn’t Super Yet. But It Could Be.The DC Comics sitcom shows promise, if not super-abilities.
tv review
Jan. 27, 2017
Z Almost Gives Zelda Her DueThe new Amazon series about Zelda Fitzgerald is sometimes compelling, but a little too restrained.
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