The true-crime docs here expose the rot at the core of many of our venerated institutions.
The series is the streaming equivalent of watching your laptop run through a security update to remove Russian malware.
Most of the show’s best moments come when it leans into its hellish premise and plumbs the depths of its own depravity.
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The show’s sci-fi elements are offered up in a piecemeal manner that feels more meandering than revelatory.
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Polished and perceptive though it can often be, the series only really scratches the surface level of its own potential.
The show’s struggle to find pathos in its characters’ predicament often comes at the cost of its comedy.
The limited series competently, if not always vibrantly, explores the delicate relationship between criminality and culpability.
The show’s cautionary tale about humanity’s self-immolation is disturbing enough to overcome its familiar narrative deck-building.
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The series often feels as if its farcicality has been reined in, which may have something to do with it revolving around a real game.
The series is patient enough to let us understand its central character’s trauma, but it doesn’t make us to wallow in it.
The series leans into the absurdity of trying to find creative expression in an industry that’s in a perpetual state of reinvention.
The limited series, directed by Danny Boyle, invariably captures the fervent vibe of these oversexed, under-prepared rockers.
The series is at its best when it’s simply and uncritically throwing back to ’60s spy fantasy.
Despite its sci-fi premise, the show’s storylines remain grounded in human experience.
Blending the mundane with the macabre, the true-crime series prefers to examine how lives are lived rather than how a life was lost.
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The series plays out like a sultry crime thriller, but what lies beneath its edgy, multi-perspective plot is a social drama about class.
Much of what the series offers can’t help but come off as clever franchise strategizing.
The Wire creator’s We Own This City serves as another closely observed analysis of institutional rot.