These shows prove the marathon-watching juggernaut’s concern for both quantity and quality.
Season five of Louie refocuses on Louis C.K. as a lonely, divorced, ostensibly well-off New Yorker.
There’s plenty of death in the fifth season of Game of Thrones, and those deaths are understood as cautionary symbols of power.
The new Billy Crystal and Josh Gad comedy The Comedians boasts razor-sharp performances, but is ultimately toothless.
Bookended by Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is?” the episode opens with a telling bit of trickery.
American Odyssey aspires toward ideological complexity, but its simplistic notions of good and evil undermine those ambitions.
Trust, you might say, is simply the time we spend waiting for the other shoe to drop, and in The Americans, it always does.
One of the first things we see in the astonishing and consistently thrilling finale of the show’s fifth season is a rabbit’s foot.
Going Clear penetrates the nature of faith to confront anxious questions.
In The Americans, of course, protecting one’s family and serving one’s country are consistently at loggerheads.
Much like the virus that makes the dead come back to life, there’s no clear, clean way to get rid of society’s ills.
A cynic might view the episode as fan service, but that would discount the faltering pathways that led to the poise these characters display here.
The season finale of Looking culminates in a single, extended take, perhaps three minutes in all, at the end of a lovers’ quarrel.
A morass of lies, betrayals and undetonated bombs, “Divestment” isn’t about civil disobedience but vengeance plain and simple.
Bloodline is full of gifted actors, but Ben Mendelsohn walks away with it, largely because of his uniquely poignant sleaze-ball charisma.
To call “Spend” an emotionally exhausting experience would count as an early qualifier for understatement of 2015.
It’s here, in “Looking for Sanctuary,” that the series finally admits to a certain cyclicality.
“Daddy Issues” is all about boundaries and how quickly they can dissolve.
The Americans traditionally finds suspense in the slow, summative effect of its wary glances and closed doors.
Rick is seemingly also showing new colors, getting a bit more comfortable with the Alexandria folk and paying especial attention to Jessie.
An episode in which each character’s evolution this season begins to upset the balance they’ve clung to through years of stasis.