The true-crime docs here expose the rot at the core of many of our venerated institutions.
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber is awkwardly split between a broader look at Uber and a bog-standard rise-and-fall narrative.
In its fourth season, Killing Eve remains keyed into the symmetry between its two protagonists as they converge toward a final showdown.
In its final season, Better Things continues to explore all the messy and meaningful ways that women reevaluate and rediscover themselves.
In its fourth season, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel focuses on the aesthetics of its protagonist’s life rather than restoring her conscience.
While The Cuphead Show certainly boasts a unique flavor, it also feels restricted by its trappings.
Inventing Anna suffers from a few meandering detours but succeeds in its goal of elevating its central figure.
Thanks to its smart, sophisticated direction and sharp performances, Apple TV+’s Severance mercifully doesn’t feel like work.
Netflix’s The Woman in the House Across the Street… is a lukewarm lark that could afford to be wackier and weirder.
We Need to Talk About Cosby makes a similarly convincing argument about Cosby’s artistic greatness and cultural significance.
HBO’s The Gilded Age considers the social currents of the historical moment, alluringly cutting through the delusions of its aristocrats.
Supernatural Academy is both culturally calibrated for 2022 and disappointingly traditional in the treatment of its characters.
The Afterparty attempts a deceptively tricky balancing act between murder mystery and comedy.
In its second season, Euphoria doubles down on its claim as the classiest and most artistic form of the lowbrow high school drama ever.
Though The House is handsomely made, the anthology series as a whole lacks a sturdy foundation.
The Righteous Gemstones showcases a depth and maturity by spending more time excavating its evangelical empire.
Landscapers is a tragicomic story that’s more concerned with its insular couple than the motivations of their crimes.
Season two of The Witcher allows a deeper exploration of the forces motivating its characters.
Station Eleven often wrestles with the very nature of entertainment in a time of natural and economic devastation.
Firebite explores the dangers of monsters both real and imagined with subtle melancholy.
These 20 shows thwarted our expectations and forced us to recalibrate what we thought TV could be.