This Is Us
Randall's actions hint at the dark side of people who are just trying to make things better for everyone—regardless of whether their victims want the help.
Randall's actions hint at the dark side of people who are just trying to make things better for everyone—regardless of whether their victims want the help.
Mocking COVID public health theater is finally going mainstream.
Watch out for those tequila worms.
The new Hulu miniseries promotes pernicious misconceptions about opioids, addiction, and pain treatment.
The show details friction between the privileged innovators of a steampunk city and the impoverished slums underneath it.
Can this crazy, fast-paced NBC crime drama actually reach its promised destination?
Ryan Murphy's take on the Clinton impeachment has a bipartisan message about the corrupting nature of power.
Novel adaptation struggles to separate two parallel tales.
A proposed commercial by dispensary-locator company Weedmaps was sacked by NFL and NBC suits.
Born in nationalism, the Olympic games are fading into a niche entertainment option.
Beneath all the harm, humiliation, and non-consensual hair-shaving was a love of freedom.
Fans of the books will enjoy Amazon Prime’s series.
Larry David isn't afraid to lay bare how much of politics is about appeasing the masses.
Media elites ignore the heartland-themed show, and the real issues behind it, at their own peril.
The show eschews simplistic political commentary, choosing instead to spoof America's self-obsessed, self-dealing elites.
Two January premieres offer a narcodrama and a tiresomely predictable medical procedural.
Star Trek used to dare to say that things were getting better.
The true villains of Mike White's new show are two Gen Z college students practicing militant wokeness.
The TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic trilogy is still fundamentally about the ways in which politics and objective truth inevitably clash.
The pandemic wreaked havoc on schedules, but the medium’s still faring better than the movie industry.
The dystopian show portrays people caught up in South Korea's massive consumer debt culture.
For the most part, the series' characters revere due process rights rather than seeing them as something to be trampled in pursuit of justice.
Also reviewed: Two new NBC sitcoms, American Auto and Grand Crew
The breakout Netflix series contains critiques of a decidedly "anti-capitalist" political and economic system that's haunted the Korean Peninsula.
Also intact: The whipsawing between cynicism and earnestness
The TV personality's extensive history of promoting dubious nostrums suggests that he isn't.
Glória and Harriet the Spy target different demographics for surveillance fun.
The Hulu miniseries portrays opioid pain medication as unacceptably dangerous in nearly every context.
Showtime series follows the lives of teen girls who survived a plane crash.
Showtime orders another round of serial killer suspense years after the original series ended.
A film as lifeless as its characters
Even the most powerful cosmic demigod can be foiled by the even-more-powerful machinations of bureaucracy.
Is a required content warning or algorithm change a violation of the First Amendment?
Prohibition forces doctors to cut patients off from essential pain-killing medication.
Just like the characters, this short-lived sci-fi show makes a mysterious return years later.
Chock full of drama, the show is a wry and often endearing commentary on both the wisdom and the decrepitude of advancing age.
Christian media has a track record of creating hopelessly bad productions, but Dallas Jenkins' TV series is a cut above.
Would you risk your life to write off your loans?
This Nickelodeon nostalgia is strictly for the millennials—and nobody else.
Also, a sitcom about ghosts!
Both literally and in terms of quality
In an era of cynical nostalgia-fueled reboots, a racial reframing creates a new experience.
Fox drama doesn’t rise—or sink—to the right level for the genre.
There are only a dozen new shows hitting the airwaves this month.
Prestige television flogs another round of working-class misery.
As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, prepare for the many, many looks back.
The Netflix comedy special deals with the loneliness brought on by the pandemic.
"What has gotten materially better in America in, say, the last twenty years?" So! Much!