From HBO (Chernobyl, Watchmen, Succession) to Netflix (Russian Doll, The Crown, Stranger Things) and beyond, we break down the best TV of the year.
Author: Sarah Gorr
Irene Taylor Brodsky’s intimate look at her family’s relationship to deafness and music gives way to melodrama.
Amy Sherman-Palladino’s quick-witted Amazon comedy returns for a third season of beautiful dresses and chiffon-thin stakes.
Willem Dafoe and some cute puppies aren’t enough to save this dull, overlong adventure.
Nora Ephron’s charming Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan comedy also makes the case for letting yourself be vulnerable and brave.
Netflix’s single-room stage play adaptation fails as an “important” look at race relations.
Timothy Greenberg’s leaden, frustrating series is too lackadaisical to explore its clone-centric premise. Living with Yourself is the […]
A look back at the movie that inadvertently launched a toxic movement & the TV series that better understood postmodern pain.
Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy poignantly swim through the recesses of time, animation and the mind in an ingenious new series.
It may be prefaced by a brilliant, heartfelt short, but Sony Pictures Animation’s latest, like its adaptation, is a huge waste of time.
Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss can’t quite spice up the underdone intrigue of this ’70s-set comic book adaptation.
Pippa Bianco dives headfirst into the complexities of life after sexual assault in a smartphone-heavy world.
Katee Sackhoff and an improbably attractive crew can’t save this DOA sci-fi series.
One of the few Tarantino scripts not directed by the man himself, Tony Scott’s “True Romance” is a tragically too-cool crime thriller that doesn’t age well.
The ostensibly classy Conjuring series turns into a predictable haunted-house spookfest.
HBO’s latest series puts its characters through exaggerated adolescent antics, with little substance to show for it.
Ava DuVernay tells the tale of the Central Park Five in a stirring but unsubtle miniseries.
David Milch’s long-awaited conclusion to his dark Western series hugs fans like a warm blanket, but be careful – it might be covered in smallpox.