The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
What to make of the shocking results of this week’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race?
Maybe the ultimate project of The Americans is to recognize its characters’ collective disillusionment.
The episode ties together multiple plot threads by connecting them all to the fate of See Food.
The notion of transcendence runs through the latest episode of American Gods as a thematic thread.
De Niro plays Madoff with an editorializing charmless-ness that fails to dramatize why people would trust this man.
Unfortunately, the episode takes a turn for the ludicrous as the explanation is revealed.
In the course of ranking the episodes from Twin Peaks’s first two seasons, aggregates or clusters of episodes tend to stick together.
As this week’s episode illustrates, we’re in a completely different era with what may as well be another language.
As it returns for a third season, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt remains as much of a beautiful mess as ever.
Throughout its runtime, the episode remarkably threads together the impressions of shared torment.
Master of None uses an updated vocabulary to tell classic stories of existential ennui and unrequited love.
The latest episode of the show takes a satiric look at the all-important yet elusive concept of intellectual property.
The episode is deeply critical of America, yet offers a glance toward the possibility of salvation.
This Doctor Who episode’s centerpiece is the terrific performance given by its guest star, David Suchet.
We’re arguably at the point where eliminations stop feeling like a relief and start feeling painful.
I Love Dick expands the scope of Chris Kraus’s source book and gives it a concrete sense of place.
The Wachowskis’ Netflix series Sense8 is most powerful when its characters actually intersect.
The episode feels less like a continuation of this season’s efforts up to this point than a tangent.
The episode is full of wonderfully wooden nerd-boy stabs at what Donald Trump calls locker-room talk.
Like many pilot episodes, the premiere of American Gods mows through a wealth of exposition.