These shows prove the marathon-watching juggernaut’s concern for both quantity and quality.
The Walking Dead’s characters are fleetingly enticed by the idea of a better future, one that doesn’t involve scavenging to survive.
The episode reminds us that everyone in the Girls universe is still uncomfortable in their skin, per usual.
The framing is overtly prescriptive, an image made to carry more than its maximum weight. When has freedom been undermined, and how?
The Walking Dead is often at its most compelling whenever it stresses the relative silence that’s taken over the world.
“Role-Play” features the best performance of Lena Dunham’s career.
The more that The Red Road focuses on its unique aspects and fractious setting, the more intriguing the series gets.
It understatedly teases the imagination with new possibilities for how The Walking Dead will explore the psyches of its characters.
“Flo” benefits enormously from Becky Ann Baker’s reliably lucid and moving performance as Hannah’s mom, Loreen.
Another series devoted to brilliantly tormented killers and the brilliantly tormented master investigators pursuing them.
Tying the episode’s two main storylines together is a collective sense of yearning manifesting through the different wish-fulfillment fantasies.
As an amusing cameo by Patti LuPone illustrates, Hannah often resembles a jingle salesman.
It’s effectively a multi-faceted comedy art project, the unfolding of which is both exciting and hysterical to watch.
The second season of Joe Weisberg’s Reagan-era spy drama resets the pieces of its chess game to a precarious status quo.
For its authentic engagement with despair, Hannibal is a great, epic vision of American horror that earns its wrenching nihilism.
The weather in Washington, D.C. continues to be permanently overcast in season two of House of Cards.
It takes shape rather unexpectedly, with four short, open-ended vignettes following different groupings of characters that made it out of the prison.
It confirms that Marnie is no longer a sporadically irritating supporting player, but the center of Girls’s empathetic imagination.
Broad City’s impossible-to-pigeonhole characters revel in their absurdity and rarely stick to the script.
The show’s best moments have always been quiet scenes with characters coping with their own fears when no one else is around.
“Free Snacks” is lighter than air, and it affords Lena Dunham the opportunity to lighten up as an actress.