Latest TV Reviews
‘The Buccaneers’ Review: Apple TV+’s Edith Wharton Adaptation Eventually Finds Its Spark
Inspired by the writer's final, unfinished novel, the series follows a tight-knit clique of wealthy young American women who head to London in search of titled husbands.
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‘A Murder at the End of the World’ Review: Emma Corrin and Clive Owen Star in FX/Hulu’s Alluring Whodunit
A Gen Z hacker seeks the truth behind the death of a guest at an ultra-exclusive retreat hosted by a tech billionaire in the series created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij ('The OA').
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‘The Curse’ Review: Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder Play Married HGTV Stars in Showtime’s Exhilarating, Exhausting Cringe Comedy
Benny Safdie is co-creator of the dark satire, which follows the stars and creator of a home-renovation series.
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‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ Review: A Commanding David Oyelowo Can’t Mask the Blandness of Paramount+’s History Lesson
The legendary U.S. Marshal gets heroic biopic treatment in this limited series from the Taylor Sheridan stable, with guest stars including Shea Whigham, Dennis Quaid, Donald Sutherland, Garrett Hedlund and Barry Pepper.
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Critic’s Appreciation: Matthew Perry Masterfully Walked the Line Between Mirth and Melancholy
Perry, who died this weekend at 54, was an expert at making viewers care for characters who used humor to mask insecurity, sadness and pain.
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‘Black Cake’ Review: Dramatic Friction Sorely Lacking in Hulu’s Tale of a Family’s Secrets and Strife
In an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Charmaine Wilkerson, two estranged siblings discover the truth about their mother's life story after her death.
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‘Everyone Else Burns’ Review: The CW’s British Comedy Laces Doomsday Cringe With Sweetness as Well as Snark
Simon Bird and Kate O'Flynn lead the cast of a transplanted Channel 4 series about a Manchester family devoted to a fundamentalist Christian sect.
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‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Review: Maya Erskine in Netflix’s Gorgeously Violent Adult Animated Revenge Drama
A mysterious swordmaster cuts a path of revenge through 17th-century Japan in an adult animated series created by Amber Noizumi and Michael Green.
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‘Fellow Travelers’ Review: A Superbly Paired Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey Give Showtime’s Sometimes Stodgy Miniseries Its Spark
The actors play lovers whose relationship stretches from the Red Scare of the 1950s into the early years of the AIDS epidemic under Ronald Reagan.
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‘Neon’ Review: Netflix’s Miami Reggaeton Comedy Is a Glossy Good Time, if Not Much Else
Three best friends make their way up the music scene in a comedy created by Shea Serrano and Max Searle and produced by Daddy Yankee.
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‘Bodies’ Review: Netflix’s Sharply Acted Time-Travel Series Does Justice to Its Wild Premise
Four London detectives in four different time periods stumble upon the same mysterious body in a limited series starring Shira Haas ('Unorthodox').
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‘The American Buffalo’ Review: Even Not-Peak Ken Burns Is Still Worth a Watch
Burns' new four-hour PBS doc studies the species' symbolism, its brutal near-extinction and the complicated and sometimes heroic struggle to bring the buffalo back.
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‘John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams’ Review: Peacock’s Ho-Hum Horror-Doc Hybrid Fails to Live Up to Its Title
The 'Halloween' auteur goes behind the camera for one of six episodes in this re-enactment-heavy anthology series.
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‘Goosebumps’ Review: Disney+’s R.L. Stine Adaptation Overcomes Stumbles With Heart, Humor and Gore Galore
Five high-schoolers get pulled into a supernatural mystery involving the death of a local teen three decades earlier in a series based on the bestselling YA books.
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‘Frasier’ Review: Kelsey Grammer Gets Stranded in Paramount+’s Pointless Revival
The reboot of the classic NBC sitcom follows the titular psychiatrist to Boston, where he takes a new job at Harvard and tries to reconnect with his firefighter son.
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Critics’ Conversation: The Great TV Slowdown (Sorta)
THR TV critics survey a sparse, strike-struck landscape, finding solace in an under-the-radar anti-capitalist satire on Peacock and a sharp portrait of an aspiring Black British filmmaker.
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