The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
The first episode of The Deuce introduces outsiders striving for success in their own illicit framework.
The premiere episode’s random acts of violence don’t confront fear so much as exploit it.
The episode’s main event proves to be an emotional powder keg for the show’s protagonists.
The finale invites us to inquire into our own motives for wanting to revisit the series.
China Girl can’t even allow the audience to enjoy the pleasures of detection one expects from mystery shows.
The show’s characters are like photonegatives of typically saccharine rom-com protagonists.
In a very sex-forward season, the latest episode of Insecure seems more sex-forward than usual.
Violence is teased, but tantalizingly withheld, throughout the season-seven finale of Game of Thrones.
The latest episode of Twin Peaks is most remarkable for its numerous arrivals and departures.
More than any other character, Issa is operating under the assumption that she’s living her best life.
The Tick gleefully satirizes superhero excess but also threatens to alienate its target audience.
Disjointed shares more DNA with a bland 1990s TV comedy than an anarchic stoner film.
In the latest episode, David Lynch implicates his audience in Twin Peaks’s unfolding dream.
The episode offers up a battle between CGI dragons and CGI zombies, to pulpy effect but no moral consequence.
The series appears to primarily exist because it’s the next obligatory step for the Netflix superhero franchise.
The latest episode of Insecure deftly captures the everyday anxiety of black male experience.
David Lynch has always conjured up his disorienting and disturbing narratives according to an intuitive dream logic.
The episode that dials back from the epic confrontations that have filled out the majority of this season.
The only person on Insecure who doesn’t seem to be too interested in looking good on paper is Issa.
Dowd often slipped into character while talking, as her own past self or one of the women she’s played.