Latest TV Reviews
Critic’s Notebook: Beijing Winter Olympics Open With Pomp, Circumstance and Genocide Denial
The second Olympics in less than a year kicked off Friday morning, with NBC struggling to find a balance between honoring the spectacle and acknowledging the controversial backdrop.
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Amazon’s ‘Phat Tuesdays’: TV Review
Reginald Hudlin's three-part docuseries fills in a key absence from Showtime's 'The Comedy Store,' focusing on the all-Black standup showcase that launched in the 1990s.
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Apple TV+’s ‘Suspicion’: TV Review
The thriller follows a small group of British citizens whose lives are upended when they're accused of abducting the son of an American PR specialist played by Uma Thurman.
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Critic’s Notebook: ‘And Just Like That’ Finale Sees the Limitations of Sisterhood
Rewriting the hollow happy endings of 'Sex and the City,' the sequel series wrap-up explores the natural fractures in Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte's friendship.
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Amazon’s ‘Reacher’: TV Review
Alan Ritchson steps into Tom Cruise's uncomfortably small shoes as Lee Child's brilliant and brutal traveling ronin Jack Reacher in this new eight-episode adaptation.
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Netflix’s ‘Murderville’: TV Review
The murder-mystery comedy pairs Will Arnett's Detective Terry Seattle with celebrity guests who are not shown a script ahead of time and must improvise their way through each case.
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Lifetime’s ‘Janet Jackson’: TV Review
In a new documentary special executive produced by the artist, Jackson tells a partial story of her life.
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Netflix’s ‘The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window’: TV Review
Kristen Bell plays a lonely woman who thinks she witnessed a murder in this eight-episode comic take on the genre of mysteries about lonely women who think they witnessed murders.
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Hulu’s ‘Pam & Tommy’: TV Review
Lily James, Sebastian Stan, Seth Rogen and a talking penis star in an eight-episode limited series that traces the origins and aftermath of the Pamela Anderson/Tommy Lee sex tape.
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Syfy’s ‘Astrid & Lilly Save the World’: TV Review
The supernatural comedy follows two teenage besties tasked with hunting down monsters in order to close an inter-dimensional portal.
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ABC’s ‘Promised Land’: TV Review
Creator Matt Lopez attempts to explore the American Dream and give 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty' a Latino spin in this vineyard-set primetime soap.
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W. Kamau Bell’s ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’: TV Review | Sundance 2022
Bell's four-part Showtime docuseries explores Bill Cosby's legacy as a TV icon and a convicted predator, showing how his fame, influence and criminality were all connected.
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