A New Charles Manson Documentary Series Pulls All the Disturbing Threads Together
Helter Skelter: An American Myth doesn’t shed new light, but it’s excellent journalism.
Glenn Garvin TV Reviews
Stateless Dramatizes Cruelty of Immigrant Detention Bureaucracies
The Australian series shows it’s not all about Trump.
Golden State Killer's Capture Complicates Documentary I'll Be Gone in the Dark
What happens when a decades-long mystery gets solved while you’re explaining it?
The Media's Role in Concealing Stalin's Evils Exposed in Mr. Jones
Walter Duranty and The New York Times have blood on their hands in this historical re-enactment.
Perry Mason Gets Its Mandatory Gritty Reboot
Matthew Rhys stars in an adaptation with pretty much no resemblance to its origins.
Recreate the Drive-In Experience at Home with These Two Digital Offerings
Into the Dark: Good Boy and The Vast of Night draw inspiration from the good ol’ days.
I May Destroy You's Comic Noir Premise Lacks Actually Interesting People
What if you had a mystery and nobody cared?
Wild Rock Doc Laurel Canyon Travels Back to L.A.'s Stellar '60s Scene
In the winding hills above Hollywood, musical history was made.
Hulu's Bonkers 'Retelling' of the Life of Catherine the Great a Wild, Fun Ride
Just don’t expect too much historical accuracy.
An Absurd Premise and Stellar Acting Anchor TNT's Snowpiercer
Just try not to ask too many questions about what’s happening or why.
Mark Ruffalo Shines in Brutal I Know This Much Is True Adaptation
Dual roles highlight harsh, almost masochistic miniseries of twin brothers’ travails.
Bad Writing Blunts Intriguing Penny Dreadful Follow-Up
Talented performances in City of Angels undone by uninspiring scripts.
Maternal Instincts, for Better and Worse, Drive Little Fires Everywhere
Reese Witherspoon is well on her way to becoming a television mogul.
The Snobbery Is Partly the Point in Downton-esque Belgravia
If you can’t get enough of British class war melodramas, pull up a chair.
Broke Is the Perfect New Sitcom for Our Sudden Economic Downturn
You don’t have to wallow at home alone.
No, Cuba Is Not Exactly the Cancer Pioneer Nova Attempts to Present
The myth that this authoritarian island provides better medical treatment just won’t die.
The Plot Against America Is Not About Trump, Even If Comparisons Are Inevitable
HBO's adaptation of Philip Roth's novel is much more interesting when viewed on its own merits.
Council of Dads Is a Derivative Dud
New NBC drama is an obvious rip-off of This Is Us, but without any real heart.
ZeroZeroZero Plunges Viewers into the Dark, Gritty, Unglamorous Heart of Narcotrafficking
There’s nobody to root for in this Amazon adaptation, and that’s intentional.
Hunters Wastes Its Cast, Plot on Stupid Frat Jokes
The Holocaust and its fallout can be tackled with humor. But this Amazon show fails at its aims.
Edie Falco Elevates CBS Police Outsider Drama Tommy
Also reviewed: Riverdale spin-off Katy Keene
Briarpatch Offers Pulpy Small-Town Darkness, and Not Much Else
There’s nobody to root for in this USA Network whodunit.
Avenue 5 Is Veep in Space—That Doesn't Make It Great
Also reviewed: Fox’s absolutely awful Outmatched
Adaptation of Stephen King's The Outsider Swings Wildly in Tones
Once the HBO series goes off-book, it goes off-track.
Dick Wolf's Parade of Cookie-Cutter Police Shows Marches On with FBI: Most Wanted
Will this well ever go dry?
Mean Girl Cheerleaders and Outlandish Sheriffs Ring in the New Year of Television
Dare Me and Deputy both have their flaws and their charms.
Glenn Garvin's Top 10 Television Programs of 2019
Some of which did not actually appear on television networks
Have Yourself a Nasty Little Christmas with Into the Dark
What if A Christmas Carol had a body count?
The L Word Returns, With an Unwelcome New Obsession With Identity Politics
The original lesbian-centric series was groundbreaking. The new generation is exhausting.
There's Nothing Noirish in Hulu's Grating, Hyper, Tiresomely Violent Reprisal
Bloody revenge fantasy draws more from the 1970s than anything cutting edge.
Ignore the Critics and Enjoy a Sour Bite of Apple's Vicious The Morning Show
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon kill it as troubled television journalists in a changing media environment.
Dollface Mines Humor from the Loneliness of Single Women
Also: Did anybody actually ask for a Mad About You reboot? Anybody at all?
Post-Prison Dark Humor Animates the Winning Back to Life
BBC production finds U.S. home on Showtime.
The Apollo Documents the Making (and Breaking) of Many an Entertainer
Harlem’s famous incubator of black performers gets a closer look on HBO.
HBO's Catherine The Great Is All Glamour, Little Substance
Screenwriter Nigel Williams seems to have thought he was working on Fast Times At Moscow High.
The Politician Trashes All Sociopathic Office-Seekers, Even High School Ones
Rigged elections, sham marriages, and a faked cancer diagnosis make Ryan Murphy's new series worth a watch.
Batwoman and Nancy Drew Get Their Gritty TV Reboots
Fall network premiere rollouts end with a weak burst of remakes.
Almost Family Wrings Good Drama Out of Fertility Clinic Scandal
Network primetime premiere week ends with a jump in quality.
Thursday's Cavalcade of Unfunny New 'Comedies' Will Make You Fear the Death of Humor
Did they run out of budget for the jokes?
Look to Tuesdays for New Primetime Shows Actually Worth Watching
Stumptown may be the best new television offering of the season.
Fall's New Primetime Shows Launch with an Inconsequential Whimper
The crumbling remains of network premiere season tumble out of the gate Monday.
Ken Burns Delves into the Hardscrabble History of Country Music
You don’t have to enjoy the genre to find this 16-hour PBS docuseries fascinating.
Netflix's Unbelievable Turns True Crime Story into Fascinating Character Drama
A police procedural about rape cases that focuses on details without getting tedious
Teen Witnesses to 9/11 Reminisce About the Horrors They Saw That Day
New HBO documentary is moving … until it wanders into our current politics.
