The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
At the center of the episode is one of the most difficult circumstances from which to mine comedy.
The pimps are the first to face eradication by the proliferation of porn and brothels.
Mindhunter understands that words are ultimately an extension of the role play that defines our lives.
There’s plenty of room here to send-up Trump’s distraction politics, but Cult isn’t landing the punch.
The latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm explores the hollowness of the expression “with all due respect.”
The episode’s most pivotal scene is a court ruling to drop charges against a group of pornographers.
Almost everything in the latest episode of American Horror Story plays a bit too much like a thesis presentation.
Much of the latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm deals with Larry’s inability to mind his own business.
The latest episode of The Deuce is in many ways the most pessimistic hour of the series so far.
The episode fulfills the uneasy task of setting up multiple plotlines for the season to come.
As the series elaborates on all the things that brought Ally to madness, she’s been placed on the backburner.
Pasts, presents, and futures are illustrated simultaneously, all balanced on the razor’s edge of Times Square.
There doesn’t seem to be a cogent argument in the series, just a proclivity to evoke current events.
The latest Cult manages to imbue its eventual villains with a level of empathy that’s new to American Horror Story.
The latest episode of The Deuce illustrates that a glass ceiling exists even in society’s cellar.
The episode all too happily reminds us that strong emotions make people do crazy, often nonsensical things.
The episode will likely be unbowed by one pimp’s knife, whenever he finally spies them on the horizon.
For better and worse, the horror on American Horror Story: Cult is all text and no subtext.
The episode doesn’t leave us with any huge cliffhangers, no actions that are entirely surprising, let alone shocking.
Broad City is still gut-busting, but there’s a sad undercurrent to the new season.