Contributing Editor
Also reviewed: Fox’s absolutely awful Outmatched
Once the HBO series goes off-book, it goes off-track.
Will this well ever go dry?
Dare Me and Deputy both have their flaws and their charms.
Some of which did not actually appear on television networks
What if A Christmas Carol had a body count?
The original lesbian-centric series was groundbreaking. The new generation is exhausting.
Bloody revenge fantasy draws more from the 1970s than anything cutting edge.
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon kill it as troubled television journalists in a changing media environment.
Also: Did anybody actually ask for a Mad About You reboot? Anybody at all?
BBC production finds U.S. home on Showtime.
Harlem’s famous incubator of black performers gets a closer look on HBO.
Screenwriter Nigel Williams seems to have thought he was working on Fast Times At Moscow High.
Rigged elections, sham marriages, and a faked cancer diagnosis make Ryan Murphy's new series worth a watch.
Fall network premiere rollouts end with a weak burst of remakes.
Network primetime premiere week ends with a jump in quality.
Did they run out of budget for the jokes?
Stumptown may be the best new television offering of the season.
The crumbling remains of network premiere season tumble out of the gate Monday.
You don’t have to enjoy the genre to find this 16-hour PBS docuseries fascinating.
A police procedural about rape cases that focuses on details without getting tedious
New HBO documentary is moving … until it wanders into our current politics.
Hulu's Untouchable is a relentless accounting of the mogul's sexual misdeeds.
This Showtime documentary sings. You should listen.
Wave of zombie apocalypse stories reaches a very literal—and absurd—destination.
Reviews of campy Why Women Kill and documentary Manson: the Women
If a chaotic concert that nearly failed "defined a generation," what does that actually mean?
Fourth season of iconic murder mystery show is on Hulu.
An original movie about sexual trauma doesn't take the easy route.
How can a show about Chicago's squalid corruption have so little to actually say?
HBO documentary explores teen’s culpability in boyfriend’s suicide.
There was a lot more to the Fox News boss than just vicious villainy.
A meticulous re-enactment of the misbegotten prosecution of the Central Park Five gets a lot right.
Crime, dysfunction, and corruption in Beantown
Meryl Streep adds more comic menace to the over-the-top HBO drama.
Movie treads the familiar grounds of the beloved, abruptly canceled HBO show.
Joseph Heller's opus is drained of power in this tepid adaptation.
Pack of abandoned teens don’t seem to care what happened, and neither will you.
A miniseries about the deadly nuclear disaster that marked the doom of the Soviet Union
Netflix show gives an old horror trope new life. Also, there’s Uma Thurman.
PBS documentary illustrates two sides pushing even further apart.
Sam Rockwell, Michelle Williams star in FX miniseries about troubled life of famous choreographer.
Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson lead a brutal chase across Texas.
Cult film hit becomes an FX series.
Thinly veiled ABC drama blames the jury for flaws in the case.
Is it already time to feel nostalgia over growing up less than 20 years ago? Maybe.
Mind the dildos in Gregg Araki's latest.
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