These shows prove the marathon-watching juggernaut’s concern for both quantity and quality.
Goliath often manages to surprise with the revelation of a deeper subtext.
The new HBO series Divorce has a clear barometer for humor, though less for empathy.
Westworld isn’t some far-flung future entertainment, but a prescient commentary on our present.
Above all else, Marvel’s Luke Cage is about what, if any, qualifications there are for being a hero.
Joe Swanberg’s Easy is about sex, even and especially on the rare occasion when it doesn’t appear to be.
The ABC political drama Designated Survivor offers tapioca disguised as spicy contemporary cuisine.
Cinemax’s Quarry suffers from a sense of prescribed and stiflingly tangible heaviness.
It spends too much time asking the audience to sympathize with the plight of an upper-middle-class white actress.
Atlanta exhilaratingly explores the complicated intersections between pop culture, capitalism, and crime.
One may be excused for thinking The Exorcist is also in part an adaptation of The Thorn Birds.
Better Late Than Never is so desperate for attention that it almost never stops explaining itself.
Too much of the Netflix series feels dictated by the setup and pay-off rules of popular storytelling.
Exquisitely nostalgic, the movie is as comfortable, and as complicated, as a reunion with an old friend.
Stranger Things is competently crafted, but exists as little more than the pointless sum of its spare parts.
In its second season, Mr. Robot’s aesthetic is nearing ever closer to the edge of inadvertent self-parody.
At the heart of Vice Principals is the mad desire to find respect, power, and likability.
Hacking proves to be the perfect symbol for the psychological subversion that Elliot, along with his friends, family, and even enemies, cannot help but indulge.
The miniseries mines our obsession with the minutiae behind the presentation and discernment of data.
Death is momentarily thrilling, but the struggles of those who live on are what sustain the series.
The power of the latest episode of Game of Thrones is that it leaves nothing to abstraction.