In its final season, the series struggles to cook up something fresh, but it’s still hard to resist.
HBO’s The Gilded Age considers the social currents of the historical moment, alluringly cutting through the delusions of its aristocrats.
Supernatural Academy is both culturally calibrated for 2022 and disappointingly traditional in the treatment of its characters.
The Afterparty attempts a deceptively tricky balancing act between murder mystery and comedy.
In its second season, Euphoria doubles down on its claim as the classiest and most artistic form of the lowbrow high school drama ever.
Though The House is handsomely made, the anthology series as a whole lacks a sturdy foundation.
The Righteous Gemstones showcases a depth and maturity by spending more time excavating its evangelical empire.
Landscapers is a tragicomic story that’s more concerned with its insular couple than the motivations of their crimes.
Season two of The Witcher allows a deeper exploration of the forces motivating its characters.
Station Eleven often wrestles with the very nature of entertainment in a time of natural and economic devastation.
Firebite explores the dangers of monsters both real and imagined with subtle melancholy.
These 20 shows thwarted our expectations and forced us to recalibrate what we thought TV could be.
Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop feels more cartoonish than the anime that spawned it.
The Shrink Next Door rapidly hops between decades but feels like it moves at a crawl, dulling the myriad charms of its leading cast.
Chucky walks a fascinating tonal tightrope as a funny, absurd series that engenders sympathy as well as shock.
Star Wars: Visions refreshes the Star Wars universe with an eclectic range of styles and tones and a subversive streak.
Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass exudes a narcotic pull in everything from its aesthetics to monologues that suggest the weight of confession.
B.J. Novak’s The Premise seems self-consciously engineered for profundity and stark provocation.
The Chair too often downplays its potentially thorny political subject matter.
Netflix’s Brand New Cherry Flavor suggests that ambition makes monsters.
Reservation Dogs captures a feeling more successfully than it develops its characters, but there’s a power to its aimlessness.