These shows prove the marathon-watching juggernaut’s concern for both quantity and quality.
Aggressive satire gives Full Frontal a platform for envisioning alternative relations of gender and power.
The series remains compelling in its devotion to exposing its characters’ public hang-ups and private strengths.
The movie is a pop-culture mash-up that miraculously doesn’t buckle under the self-serious weight of its myriad literary references.
The series is crisply staged, well-acted, but only mildly diverting.
It owes a big debt to The West Wing, from the constant walk-and-talk shots to moments of pure slapstick.
The depressing truth to the episode’s title may be that no one can get what they want without violence.
Uncle Buck bears the unmistakable feeling of a series that was market-tested to death in every predictable plot turn.
The series decadently relishes in the objectification of both genders with amusing shamelessness.
The series proves once again that action need not be explosive to be effective.
When Game of Thrones leans on its history, it takes on a resonance rarely found in fantasy.
The series ultimately becomes nothing much more than a paean to the myth of the wild, ingenious badass chef.
The real danger in the world of The Americans is that one fails to notice they’re being crushed.
The Dresser is a merely effective portrait of the pitfalls and pleasures of a working relationship.
The latest episode of Game of Thrones takes a more subdued step back to reset the table for the next big event.
The episode frames its constituent parts as opposing forces, but in the end each element contributes to a coherent, if half-hidden, whole.
The dialogue is at once easygoing in its candor and rigidly on-message about the corrosive nature of lies.
The show is no longer holding anything back in story or tone, and it’s making this fantasy world feel all too real.
Having been told so many lies, Paige has now become the teller, her parents’ child after all.
Preacher values attitude at the expense of plot, theme, and character, yielding a series in which stuff merely happens.
The latest episode of Game of Thrones finally starts uniting the season’s threads, often through blood.