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Television
Tell Me a Story Contemplates Moral Responsibility in Bloodcurdling Fashion
The fairy-tale foundation never materializes, but the show will rattle your bones.
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.
Stateless Dramatizes Cruelty of Immigrant Detention Bureaucracies
The Australian series shows it’s not all about Trump.
Mrs. America
The show smartly grasps that there will always be competing visions for the future of feminism.
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?
Police Departments Asked Live PD To Cut Footage That Made Cops Look Bad
Perhaps this show was not the window into law enforcement transparency it claimed to be.
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.
How Fox's 1997 Sunday Night Lineup Ate the Universe
Our reality is now Fox Mulder, Dale Gribble, Chief Wiggum, and a home movie of a guy getting hit in the groin.
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.
NASCAR and Golf Return to TV, Paving Way for Pandemic-Friendly Sports
Races reopened without fans this weekend, to mostly good reviews. Sports and entertainment are shifting to serve social-distancing needs.
An Absurd Premise and Stellar Acting Anchor TNT's Snowpiercer
Just try not to ask too many questions about what’s happening or why.
Upload Builds an Amusing, Ethically Fraught World Around Virtual Heaven
Transcending consciousness is presented as a consumer good in a sharp new Amazon Prime series.
Mark Ruffalo Shines in Brutal I Know This Much Is True Adaptation
Dual roles highlight harsh, almost masochistic miniseries of twin brothers’ travails.
Ugly Delicious
Is tahini salsa verde an insidious form of cultural appropriation or two immigrants from Oaxaca riffing on food traditions they love?
Bad Writing Blunts Intriguing Penny Dreadful Follow-Up
Talented performances in City of Angels undone by uninspiring scripts.
I Ran for Governor of Oklahoma Against Tiger King's Joe Exotic
Lessons learned from the zookeeper Netflix made famous
Maternal Instincts, for Better and Worse, Drive Little Fires Everywhere
Reese Witherspoon is well on her way to becoming a television mogul.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The focus on seemingly minor everyday questions of propriety makes the show's 10th season as insightful as it is funny.
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.
Is Quibi the Next Revolution In Small Screen Streaming Video?
The new service was built for a world that no longer exists. Yet it may still end up being relevant to the one we now inhabit.
Broke Is the Perfect New Sitcom for Our Sudden Economic Downturn
You don’t have to wallow at home alone.
Larry David Says People Who Object to COVID-19 Lockdowns Are 'Idiots'
Government-mandated unemployment is "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to "sit on the couch and watch TV," says the wealthy star of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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.
Review: Devs
Nick Offerman and Alison Pill in Alex Garland’s wild sci-fi mystery.
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.
Watchmen
The new HBO show explores how systems of authority fail those for whom they are ostensibly responsible.
How Rob Long Went from Cheers to National Review to LSD
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
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.
