Contributing Editor
The new Netflix miniseries feels both traditional and new, with the big-screen qualities of a film and the story and character nuance of the best television.
Prepare yourself for the gamer jokes and deliberately gross body humor.
Gross-out humor and cancer-do they blend?
A window into the life of a struggling actor or canny Hollywood calculation?
Alias Grace is preferable to a new, terrible S.W.A.T. reboot.
In this documentary murder mystery, the suspects all belch smoke and lava.
Jay Pharoah gets space to shine on Showtime.
Add thriller Valor, and The CW offers the best new fall premieres.
The latest new network offerings suggest not. Also: a look at The Gifted.
Wisdom of the Crowd the latest tech-gimmicky police show to launch.
Also, another cookie-cutter military forces show premieres.
Four new shows launch Monday, including Young Sheldon.
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick hold politicians (both D and R) accountable.
Cheech and Chong were decades ago, but Netflix show leans on the same old pot jokes.
Prostitution and porn during the 1970s focus of new series.
Sweeping generalizations take the place of actual analysis or thoughtful narratives.
Documentary navigates complex custody fight between Cuba, United States, and Cuban-Americans.
Also: Another mediocre Wayans family show.
From dark and disturbing to the gloriously absurd.
Charlaine Harris' books come to NBC while Russian agents invade CNN.
A new generation faces the familiar dilemmas.
CBS show is disposable summer television at its worst.
John Singleton's latest is a hackneyed embrace of debunked conspiracies.
Film favors martyrdom over careful analysis.
Confused adaptation of Stephen King's novella dissipates the tension.
Crimelord manicurists and blood-sucking cars!
Stand-up comics' pursuit for laughs presented as life-or-death drama.
Still Star-Crossed gets quietly dumped onto the airwaves like an unwanted pet.
The Wizard of Lies starts too late in the scam and misses much.
The show based on Chris Kraus' novel is full of laugh-out-loud burlesque.
No, it's not just some corporate conspiracy.
It doesn't always make sense, but it's loaded with garish style.
Political terrorism intersects with pettier motivations.
Showtime documentary details scandals surrounding a murder.
New historical sex drama comes to Hulu.
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train brought to Netflix.
John Lithgow as a forgetful poetry professor accused of murdering his wife.
Meanwhile, more television shows about time travel!
CMT explores rock's roots, while CBS presents a spinoff to a popular legal drama.
New legal show by former Grey's Anatomy folks.
APB, meanwhile, is destined for deserved obscurity.
Superior Donuts, Powerless, and Training Day don't make much impact.
Also, Riverdale gives Archie the gritty reboot nobody asked for.
