The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
Rather than feeling grounded in its everyday struggles, Entergalactic comes across more like a black hole of imagination.
AMC’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel embraces the opulence of the source material while adding a few modern flourishes of its own.
Andor has all the scruffy charm and boundless raw potential of its eponymous main character.
The show’s second season possesses a blend of exuberance and cynicism, even if the jokes feel baggier and the plots a bit sillier.
The Hulu series plays like an exceptionally late attempt to catch the long tail of meta sitcoms.
The series is a feat of logistics and scene-setting rather than narrative design.
Fundamentally, the series is about the difficulty of finding contentment in a world that perpetually keeps you on the defensive.
The series handles teched-up sci-fi concepts with the urgency of a conspiracy thriller and grounds them in a relatable family drama.
The series, based on Tyson’s one-man Broadway show, pulls a few punches but lands the big swings.
As the series unfolds, it homes in on the theme of empathy and skillfully connects its two seemingly disparate narrative threads.
The Game of Thrones prequel struggles to apply new makeup to the old face of palace intrigue.
Stretched over seven episodes, with a number of distracting subplots, the Netflix series over-complicates its initially intriguing premise.
The series is the streaming equivalent of watching your laptop run through a security update to remove Russian malware.
Most of the show’s best moments come when it leans into its hellish premise and plumbs the depths of its own depravity.
The actress talks about Yellowjackets, reuniting with Tim Burton, and the impressive trajectory of her career.
The show’s sci-fi elements are offered up in a piecemeal manner that feels more meandering than revelatory.
Polished and perceptive though it can often be, the series only really scratches the surface level of its own potential.
The show’s struggle to find pathos in its characters’ predicament often comes at the cost of its comedy.
The limited series competently, if not always vibrantly, explores the delicate relationship between criminality and culpability.
The show’s cautionary tale about humanity’s self-immolation is disturbing enough to overcome its familiar narrative deck-building.