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Jan. 26, 2017
Riverdale Is Your Next Teen-Soap AddictionArchie, Betty, and Veronica, like you’ve never seen them before.
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Jan. 23, 2017
New Edition , But a Familiar Music BiopicThe New Edition Story has a great cast. But by night three, you might be ready to cool it now.
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Jan. 19, 2017
Frontier , Wake Me Up When the Fur Trade EndsThe Netflix series starring Jason Momoa is a snooze.
Jan. 13, 2017
Amazon’s Sneaky Pete Is an Addictive Binge-Watch The new crime-drama from Graham Yost, Bryan Cranston, and Davis Shore gets pretty addictive pretty quickly.
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Jan. 13, 2017
Victoria Is a Fine But Familiar British Period PieceIt’s well-acted and sumptuous to behold. But it’s probably not the next Downton Abbey .
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Jan. 12, 2017
Lemony Snicket Is Still Unfortunate, and That’s a Good ThingThe Netflix series is a faithful, darkly fun adapation of the books about the Baudelaires.
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Jan. 12, 2017
The Young Pope Is Compelling, But StrangeIt’s five or six shows in one, and not necessarily in a good way.
tv review
Jan. 10, 2017
FX’s Taboo Is More Fun to Think About Than to Watch This is clearly an obsessive, personal work, and it’s intriguing on that level — more so if you’re a fan of Tom Hardy.
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Jan. 7, 2017
Emerald City , NBC’s Wizard of Oz Update, Is a Monotonous DudIt’s obvious that what NBC wants here is its own answer to The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones .
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Jan. 3, 2017
The Wall Is the Most American Game Show on TVI pledge allegiance to Chris Hardwick and dropping glowing balls into oversize slots.
tv review
Jan. 3, 2017
Apprentice Is Part of Our Landscape of WeirdnessThe fact that the almost-president is a continuing financial partner on this show neutralizes any fine-grained criticism I might have to offer here.
tv review
Dec. 16, 2016
Netflix’s The OA Is an Extraordinary, Binge-Worthy December Surprise This year of exceptional TV has managed to deliver one more unexpected gift.
goodbyes
Dec. 15, 2016
There May Never Be a Show Like Rectify Again It went against nearly every trend that had been established in so-called “quality TV” since the debut of The Sopranos .
tv review
Dec. 14, 2016
Fox’s Star Is Not the Next Empire It will not break the recent streak of mostly uninspiring music television.
tv review
Dec. 9, 2016
Seriously, Just Watch Mozart in the Jungle Season 3 The third season is engaging and elevated, once again, by an exuberant Gael García Bernal.
tv review
Dec. 1, 2016
Mariah’s World Turns Exactly the Way You’d ImagineCarey knows viewers will think she’s a high-maintenance, preening narcissist, so she beats them to the punch.
tv review
Nov. 21, 2016
Search Party Is One of the Best Shows of the YearIn many ways, this is the series that I always wanted Girls to be.
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Nov. 18, 2016
The Affair Has Even More POVs and Mystery in Season ThreeNoah Solloway is still maddening and this show is still absorbing.
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Nov. 16, 2016
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life Review: The Girls Are Back in TownIt’s nice to see these characters again. But some of the Stars Hollow charm is missing.
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Nov. 15, 2016
Good Behavior Is a Not-Quite-There ShowThe hard-boiled dialogue doesn’t have the corrosive wit and rubber-band snap that hard-boiled dialogue needs.
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Nov. 7, 2016
Martha & Snoop Is Mostly a Fun ShowIt will be a lot more fun once everybody involved calms down a bit.
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Nov. 3, 2016
Netflix’s The Crown Is Tedious, But Anglophiles Will Like It It features a perfect assortment of character actors in historical roles.
tv review
Nov. 1, 2016
People of Earth Is Smarter Than It Is FunnyAlien abductees: They’re just like us, you guys.
tv review
Oct. 31, 2016
Brief Encounters Is a Fine British Soap That Gets (a Little) DirtyThe sex stuff may seem quaint. But the relationships are what this series is really about anyway.
tv review
Oct. 27, 2016
Good Girls Revolt Is a Diluted Version of Mad Men There is probably a way to watch Good Girls Revolt without comparing it to Mad Men . But so far, I have not figured out how.
tv review
Oct. 26, 2016
The Great Indoors Is a Clichéd Comedy About MillennialsWith Joel McHale as our primordial macho man who can’t make sense of it all.
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Oct. 24, 2016
Man With a Plan Is Not As Bad As Kevin Can Wait It’s yet another CBS sitcom that leans really hard into all the genre’s tropes.
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Oct. 21, 2016
BBC’s Dirk Gently Will Try Your Patience It’s a big dumpster full of ideas and images, some intriguing, others baffling, most rather meh.
tv review
Oct. 21, 2016
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Is Occasionally Off, But Mostly On in Season TwoWith a new opener and a new connection with Josh, Rebecca Bloom is back and, for the most part, on wacky musical point.
tv review
Oct. 20, 2016
Black Mirror Is Mostly Still Great in Its Third SeasonThe show is back to remind you, once again, that technology will ruin you.
tv review
Oct. 18, 2016
Hulu’s Chance Is a Psychological Thriller With Its Own Set of Issues Hugh Laurie plays a medical professional in this dark new series. But don’t expect House part two.
tv review
Oct. 14, 2016
Amazon’s Goliath Doesn’t Challenge Its Brilliant Cast The gap between Billy Bob Thornton’s talent and the quality of Goliath is a show in itself.
tv review
Oct. 13, 2016
Haters Need Not Stream Haters Back Off! Miranda Sings is an internet phenomenon. Now she’s an internet phenomenon who also has a so-so Netflix show.
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Oct. 12, 2016
HBO’s Vice News Tonight Is Doing Something Right The “hangin’ out doin’ journalism” approach is easy to mock, but this new program is engaging and smart.
tv review
Oct. 11, 2016
SyFy’s Channel Zero Is Yet Another Horror Show Obsessed With the Past The anthology series isn’t quite the new Stranger Things , but it definitely falls in the same retro horror subgenre.
tv review
Oct. 8, 2016
Divorce Struggles to Find Enough Reasons for Viewers to CareThere’s a sympathy imbalance at the core of the show that makes the relative evenhandedness of the plotting seem more theoretical than felt.
tv review
Oct. 6, 2016
HBO’s Insecure Is an Insightful Reflection of the Lives of Black Women The show confirms that there’s plenty of talent percolating outside of the TV industry’s established channels.
tv review
Oct. 4, 2016
The CW’s Frequency Doesn’t Quite Justify Its Existence There’s no way to tell right now if Frequency can build on its ideas.
tv review
Sept. 30, 2016
TV Review: Westworld Is Layered and Self-Aware HBO’s science-fiction epic owes as much to postmodern fiction and television criticism as it does to any post-Sopranos drama you can name.
tv review
Sept. 29, 2016
Netflix’s Luke Cage Is Told Like a Classic Western It’s full of clichés, but still a pleasure to watch.
tv review
Sept. 28, 2016
Woody Allen’s Crisis Is a Tone-deaf Mad Men It’s far from the worst thing that Allen has done recently but nowhere close to his finest work.
tv review
Sept. 23, 2016
Amazon’s Transparent Returns, With More Changes Ahead The Pfeffermans are back, and their lives are still gloriously messy.
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Sept. 22, 2016
Joe Swanberg’s Easy Is a Refreshing Anthology Series That’s Easy to Enjoy These are short stories of the literary-fiction variety, though more casual and light than that phrase might suggest. And that’s fine.
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