Wellington Paranormal remains eminently watchable thanks to its considerable B-movie charm and its leads’ oddball chemistry.
The show’s attempt to individualize its protagonists largely reduces them to predictable, banal archetypes.
The anime series is, at its center, a comforting fairy tale of clear-cut good and evil.
The series leaves no police procedural cliché untouched but ultimately transcends its familiarity.
The series gets increasingly mired down in the game’s arcane and diffuse lore, yielding a befuddling and scattered narrative.
The Amazon animated series delights in the pleasure that superheroes must feel when wielding their powers.
While the series draws extensive inspiration from Bob’s Burgers, it boasts its own distinct charm.
Though weighed down by too many moving pieces, the series finds hilarity and pathos in the tale of an alien’s assimilation.
The series trades Marvel’s typically dire stakes and intergalactic scale for lighthearted intimacy.
Season three rivals its predecessors in its intoxicating blend of bleak cynicism and irreverent comedy.
The series takes on Catherine the Great with off-kilter comedy and startling poignancy.
The series suggests that winning hearts and minds is a naïve pipe dream, a strategy more fit for TV than for electoral politics.
The lighting-strike chemistry of the show’s central couple fuels its exploration of parenthood’s highs and lows.
The series dives into megalomania and workplace chaos with eccentric, frenzied energy.
Despite the sordid, festering material that the series explores, what ultimately emerges is sheer beauty.
The series taps into violence like a lifespring, finding its footing with energetic fight sequences.
The series suffocates its promising characters with the tedium of backroom politics.
The series is an uneasy, sometimes nauseating, and often fascinating examination of our current moment.
Insipid comedy aside, the Netflix series offers evocative reflections on the premature death of a generation’s childhood.
While the miniseries is mesmerizing to take in, beneath its aesthetic splendor lie vast, unplumbed depths.