The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
The outcome of Paul III’s kidnapping is known to history, and Trust struggles to mine the saga for new insights.
Silicon Valley is as much about the building of a company as it is about how that affects its prime movers.
The series frames PTSD, mental illness, and survivor’s guilt in relation to superhero tropes.
The Heathers TV adaptation skewers teen culture without providing any clear reasoning or critical stance.
The second season of Atlanta is cloaked in a heavy yet strangely exhilarating veil of dread.
The series suggests the failure of U.S. intelligence in the years before 9/11 was one of imagination.
Good Girls wants you to know it is capital-F feminist, and it’s as subtle about it as a bright pink pussy hat.
Seven Seconds is a thrilling police procedural that never loses sight of its cultural commentary.
Underneath its fashionable self-consciousness, Here and Now is another series about rich and attractive people.
Our Cartoon President only contributes to a deafening echo chamber, reinforcing and repeating existing jokes.
Altered Carbon confronts the excesses of capitalism with an obvious but imaginatively visualized commentary.
Mosaic suggests a mammoth world that exists beyond Steven Soderbergh’s rigorously structured narrative.
The show attests to the revitalizing effects of living in a place where pockets of resistance remain.
The Assassination of Gianni Versace consistently and thoughtfully returns to the notion of identity.
The Chi ultimately appears unable to imagine Chicago’s South Side as anything but toxic.
An era of the series has ended, but as always, Doctor Who continues moving right along.
Black Mirror implicates both human ignorance and malevolence as enablers of a technological dystopia.
Gunpowder locates a human drama at the heart of an event codified in history books as a conflict between monoliths.
Jean-Claude Van Johnson takes aim at privileged urban life and the action-star archetype.
We can stop waiting for powerful voices of resistance to emerge, because they’re already telling their stories.