The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
The new season recalls the most human elements of past episodes while levying urgent indictments of the present.
As the series has continued, it’s grown more outlandish, oppressive, and removed from the things that made it so captivating.
The series works best when it focuses on intimate, human moments rather than on broad social critiques.
The series successfully creates an atmosphere of dread and uncertainty, but its withholding of catharsis can be wearying.
The series visibly struggles to spin an enveloping atmosphere around its ideas.
If the movie has the ring of a high school or college reunion, that’s because that’s pretty much what it’s like.
Ava DuVernay’s series is a handsomely mounted dramatization, but it often veers into the trite, obvious, and maudlin.
There’s no limit here to the narrative conveniences that exist only to conclude the series’s eight-season arc.
Hulu’s adaptation of Joseph Heller’s novel invites our laughter, contemplation, and shock in equal measure.
As David Benioff and D.B. Weiss show with this masterful rebuttal of an episode, it’s never too late to choose a different narrative.
The final season fulfills the possibilities of the show’s concept, informing it with humanist fury.
Despite a more straightforward approach, the series still boasts Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s unmistakable voice.
There’s no shortage of empty gestures throughout the latest episode of the series.
This is less a miniseries as five-hour movie than episodic television, with new narrative wrinkles introduced each week.
The series is at its strongest when using dissonance to reorient our understanding of loss.
The episode gives the audience exactly what it expects, and absolutely nothing else.
The series derives its soulfulness from the myths that Ramy, his family, and his friends tell themselves and those around them.
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The episode is, above all else, a resolute detailing of the final calm before a spectacular storm and what it means to be human.
Netflix’s latest horror offering only rarely assumes a form greater than its individual elements and references.