In its final season, the series struggles to cook up something fresh, but it’s still hard to resist.
We chatted with the Irish actor about season three of The Umbrella Academy, working with Elliot Page, and more.
The series often feels as if its farcicality has been reined in, which may have something to do with it revolving around a real game.
The series is patient enough to let us understand its central character’s trauma, but it doesn’t make us to wallow in it.
The series leans into the absurdity of trying to find creative expression in an industry that’s in a perpetual state of reinvention.
The limited series, directed by Danny Boyle, invariably captures the fervent vibe of these oversexed, under-prepared rockers.
The series is at its best when it’s simply and uncritically throwing back to ’60s spy fantasy.
Despite its sci-fi premise, the show’s storylines remain grounded in human experience.
Blending the mundane with the macabre, the true-crime series prefers to examine how lives are lived rather than how a life was lost.
The series plays out like a sultry crime thriller, but what lies beneath its edgy, multi-perspective plot is a social drama about class.
Much of what the series offers can’t help but come off as clever franchise strategizing.
The Wire creator’s We Own This City serves as another closely observed analysis of institutional rot.
Nuanced dilemmas quickly fade into the background as Undone adopts a more straightforward format in its second season.
Pamela Adlon discusses the pitch for Better Things, the evolution of her TV kids, and the supernatural sinew that holds it all together.
Under the Banner of Heaven ambitiously grapples with the struggle to attain personal agency in the crushing course of history.
The Man Who Fell to Earth fails to recognize the key to the power of its source material: its peculiarity.
The Offer bombards the viewer with stylish characters with puffed-up egos who battle for control of The Godfather.
The second season of The Flight Attendant keeps its characters constantly on the go even as they face down their demons.
In its long-awaited third season, HBO’s Barry is as assured and morosely hilarious as ever.
In its second season, Russian Doll continues to ably straddle the line between realist tragicomedy and run-of-the-mill sci-fi.
Shining Girls ultimately doesn’t give us much sense of what’s at stake in its byzantine narrative.