A Million Little Things Is The Big Chill for a New Generation
New ABC show attempts to duplicate success of This Is Us.
Glenn Garvin TV Reviews
Next Week's New Fall Shows Will Fill You with Sense of Déjà Vu
Magnum P.I. gets a reboot, sans the charismatic lead.
Rough Insights into Urban Decay, Through the Eyes of a Kids' Football Program
The Warriors of Liberty City documents harsh lives in Miami through its children.
Fall TV Kicks Off with a Couple of Whimpering Men
Rel and Kidding attempt to find comedy in failure and disaster.
The Nihilistic World of The Purge Brings Its Mayhem to the Small Screen
Don't expect 10 hours of serial television to add more nuance.
Enjoy One Dollar's Murder Mystery; Ignore Its Awkward Class Struggle
CBS All Access show entertains, but its attempts at social relevance are dismal failures.
Matt Groening Offers a Comically Twisted Take on Fantasy in Disenchantment
Netflix lands the Simpsons creator's latest show.
Ignore the Outrage Mob and Watch Insatiable
Maybe folks angry about "fat-shaming" should have seen an episode before freaking out?
Sugar Town Puts Louisiana Police Misconduct in the Spotlight
Investigation Discovery documentary details the shooting death of a young man in police custody, absurdly framed as a suicide.
Who Is America? Is at Turns Hilarious and Unsettlingly Mean
Not every random jerk's terrible opinion is worth a national spotlight.
Stephen King's Nightmare Town Castle Rock a Distillery of Horrors
Don't even stop for gas in this fictional Maine community.
If You're Suffering from Canadian Comedy Withdrawal, Letterkenny Offers an Antidote
Wacky rural northerners on parade
HBO's Creaky Adaptation of Sharp Objects Will Make You Want to Stab Yourself
Heavy-handed writing fails to capture Gillian Flynn's dark energy.
Toke Up and Chow Down on Netflix's Pot-Infused Cooking Competition
What if everybody on the Food Network was high?
CBS Dabbles in America's Unusual Occult History in Strange Angel
Book-based bioseries delves into the life of a rocket scientist with a dark side.
Kevin Costner Goes Back to the Well of Westerns in Yellowstone
Also: Castle gets zombified from the television graveyard in the form of Take Two
Mix Yourself a Cocktail Before Enjoying this Prohibition Documentary
Smithsonian Channel tells two-part story of the history of America's doomed booze crackdown.
Summer TV Season Launches with HBO's Murdoch-esque Succession
Didn't get that beach body prepared? That's okay-grab some popcorn and hit the couch.
PBS Lets Vets Themselves Describe Life Inside the War Machine
Documentaries for Memorial Day focus on the troops' experiences.
HBO's Dishonest Obama Documentary Is Fantasy Foreign Policy Puffery
Lots of administration official log-rolling in The Final Year, but little actual analysis
After All This Time, Barbie Still Draws Some Feminists' Ire
Tiny Shoulders tackles a culture war going back decades.
No Scandals in This HBO Elvis Documentary, Just Music
The Searcher focuses almost entirely on Presley as artist.
Killing Eve Offers Up an Exciting, Hilarious James Bond Gender Bend
Also, the Smithsonian Channel presents another Waco siege documentary.
Operation Odessa Turns '90s Drug War into a Black Comedy
The best part: It's a documentary.
Roseanne Returns to Television, Older but Not Necessarily Wiser
Meanwhile a new miniseries on AMC builds a horror mystery out of a failed Arctic expedition.
Arthur Miller's Daughter Humanizes Playwright in New Documentary
Some controversial behavior connected to the Communist Party gets played down.
Two New Sitcoms High on Concepts; Unfortunately Less So on Laughs
Life Sentence and Champions have interesting ideas, lackluster execution.
The Men Who Saw Bin Laden Coming
Hulu adapts The Looming Tower into a 10-hour miniseries.
Netflix Loves the '90s in New Teen Comedy Everything Sucks!
Generational coming-of-age storytelling conventions endure.
CNN's Patty Hearst Docuseries Shows Surprising Depth
Jeffrey Toobin's book on the kidnapped heiress was a mess. This telling is much better.
Showtime Documentary Highlights Drug War's Futility
The Trade offers access to cartels, addicts, and cops alike.
Wormwood's Bad Trip Peddles CIA Conspiracies
The facts don't add up in re-enactment of famous LSD death of Frank Olson.
Soderbergh's Messy Mosaic Jumps from App to HBO
Sharon Stone stars in a sometimes-confounding noir thriller.
The Chi Inverts The Wire to Excellent Effect
New Showtime drama portrays drug and gang wars through the eyes of bystanders' lives.
Black-ish Spinoff Grown-ish Really More of a Rip-off
Cliché-addled college sitcom lacks any sort of originality.
Glenn Garvin's Best Television Shows of 2017*
*Not that they all actually aired on television.
Vapid Cuban Documentarian Unwittingly Stumbles into Country's Despairs
Jon Alpert spent decades asking incredibly dumb questions of Fidel Castro.
Final Vision Fails to Shed New Light on a Famous Family Murder Case
Joe McGinniss provides (posthumously) one last look at the Jeffrey MacDonald case.
You Won't Be Afraid of This Dark, But You Might Be Bored
Netflix sci-fi series draws comparisons to Stranger Things that do it no favors.
Godless Is a Classic Western for the New Millennium
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.
Future Man Is Gleefully Sophomoric, and That's Part of the Charm
Prepare yourself for the gamer jokes and deliberately gross body humor.
BBC Dark Comedy Ill Behaviour Finds Home on Showtime
Gross-out humor and cancer-do they blend?
Showtime Comedy SMILF Offers Questionable Authenticity
A window into the life of a struggling actor or canny Hollywood calculation?
Another Margaret Atwood Adaptation Shines on Netflix
Alias Grace is preferable to a new, terrible S.W.A.T. reboot.
Nova Offers an Unusual Environmental Whodunnit Starring Volcanoes
In this documentary murder mystery, the suspects all belch smoke and lava.
White Famous Hilariously Tackles the Racial Tensions of Comedy
Jay Pharoah gets space to shine on Showtime.
