In its final season, the series struggles to cook up something fresh, but it’s still hard to resist.
Season two of Ted Lasso clicks into a comedic groove when it delves into the messier idiosyncrasies of its characters.
While Apple TV+’s Schmigadoon! walks and talks like a musical, it doesn’t hold up, structurally, as a television series.
If nothing else, Peacock’s Dr. Death has been smartly calibrated for its intended audience.
Wellington Paranormal remains eminently watchable thanks to its considerable B-movie charm and its leads’ oddball chemistry.
Often funny and always wicked, the series spends its time patiently rending apart the images its characters have of each other.
It’s easy to dismiss the show, and just as easy to fall in love with its characters.
The series alternates between internal reflection and bizarre comedy, one impossible to imagine without the other.
The series is about rebellion with a format that feels rebellious in only the most superficial sense.
The special is most compelling when the cast is allowed to just revel in their surroundings and reminisce like old friends.
The series is, in its present and possibly final incarnation, about its makers answering to their audience.
Trauma becomes tangible in Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.
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 show’s political intrigue comes off as boilerplate, but the thrust of the source material’s narrative remains largely unchanged.
We revisited all 19 episodes of the ’90s teen drama to see if they hold up. And they mostly do.
The series leaves no police procedural cliché untouched but ultimately transcends its familiarity.
The series yanks together too many disparate elements without the necessary connective tissue.
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.
The series is about reorienting shame and blame from those who died to those who couldn’t be bothered.