8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Stick plays mostly for par By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s golf light comedy from Jason Keller is a solid if not exactly electrifying edition to the tour.
8.4 BEST NEW SHOW Welcome to Wrexham Season 4 entertains but can’t manage a clean sheet By: Tim Stevens FX's documentary series continues to profile the sometimes queasy relationship between sport, commerce, and celebrity.
8.8 BEST NEW SHOW Poker Face Season 2 dares you not to crack a smile By: Tim Stevens Back for a second season, Peacock’s Rian Johnson-Natasha Lyonne "howcatchem" continues to delight.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW The Four Seasons aren’t for everyone By: Tim Stevens Netflix’s look at friendship and love in middle age is an acquired taste.
8.2 BEST NEW SHOW Stacy London and Clinton Kelly are back in Wear Whatever the F You Want By: Sarah Gorr The fashion advising duo may be returning in the Prime Video reboot series but is there still a place for them?
9.4 BEST NEW SHOW The Rehearsal Season 2 delivers more mind-boggling Nathan Fielder excellence By: Lisa Laman Nathan Fielder is in classic form in season 2, blurring the line between truth and artifice while wringing laughs out of discomfort.
8.4 BEST NEW SHOW Black Mirror Season 7 mostly worth another trip through the looking glass By: Tim Stevens The dystopian oriented anthology series plays a predominantly melancholic note in its newest Netflix season.
8.3 BEST NEW SHOW Your Friends & Neighbors are a bit much at times By: Tim Stevens Jon Hamm is perfect as the disgraced lead stealing to maintain his socioeconomic caste in uneven AppleTV+ offering.
8.8 BEST NEW SHOW Dying for Sex fearlessly grabs the live wires of sex and death By: Tim Stevens FX’s adaptation of the hit podcast switches the point of view without sacrificing its big, kinky heart.
9.2 BEST NEW SHOW An argument for The Studio system By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s show business comedy is a master class in the form.
8.2 BEST NEW SHOW Dope Thief will rob you of any sense of calm By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s new crime drama excels at telling an unbelievably tense tale even as the plot grows ludicrous.
9.6 BEST NEW SHOW Adolescence is painful and should not be missed By: Tim Stevens Netflix’s family/crime drama is a brutal and deeply engaging masterpiece about social media, family, trauma, and teen life.
8.2 BEST NEW SHOW Your favorite rootless man mountain returns in Reacher Season 3 By: Tim Stevens Shedding much of Season 2’s sadism, the Prime series—and its hero—delivers a world of moral clarity where “true” justice can be found.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW The White Lotus Season 3 blossoms slowly, but satisfyingly By: Tim Stevens The third installment of the rich people acting badly on vacation series is its least flashy, most thoughtful installment yet.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Apple Cider Vinegar burns going down By: Tim Stevens Kaitlyn Dever is excellent as a scamfluencer so hungry for love she’ll never be satisfied in Netflix’s new based on a true story drama.
8.2 BEST NEW SHOW School Spirits Season 2 is a series worth haunting By: Tim Stevens Paramount+’s returning tale of teens, spectral and otherwise, picks up right where it left out off.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW Is there trouble in Paradise? By: Tim Stevens Hulu’s conspiracy political thriller delivers excellent performances but a successful conclusion remains unclear.
8.2 BEST NEW SHOW Mythic Quest Season 4 takes some time to find its final path By: Tim Stevens The final season of AppleTV+'s video game development comedy delivers more than just laughs...eventually.
9.1 BEST NEW SHOW Severance Season 2 drills deep into audience’s heads By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s best and oddest series returns as compelling and hypnotic as ever.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW There’s plenty of good reasons to get (into) Laid By: Tim Stevens Peacock’s Stephanie Hsu-led comedy cleverly takes on sex, love, and death.
8.2 BEST NEW SHOW Black Doves wings in with black comedy, plenty of nonsense By: Tim Stevens Netflix’s British spy and crime series is fueled by two excellent leads and a willingness to go over the top.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW Based on a True Story Season 2 isn’t quite based, but it is a lot of fun By: Tim Stevens The true crime/suburbs send up returns with the same dark and silly energy intact.
9.4 BEST NEW SHOW Always a good time to have A Man on the Inside By: Tim Stevens Netflix teams with Michael Schur for a heartfelt comedy with an excellent Ted Danson at its center.
9.3 BEST NEW SHOW Silo Season 2 give plenty of reasons to go back underground By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s hushed sci-fi series returns, more contemplative than ever.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW Cut to Interior Chinatown, with flair By: Tim Stevens The Hulu series features good performances and plenty of stylish choices but ends up less than the sum of its parts.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth staunchly refuses to take sides By: Tim Stevens The three-part documentary series explores the landmark psych study in-depth but offers few conclusions.
9.4 BEST NEW SHOW Say Nothing says plenty By: Tim Stevens Joshua Zetumer’s adaptation of the 2018 nonfiction book wrestles with big ideas without becoming a nine episode lecture.
8.8 BEST NEW SHOW Shrinking Season 2 invests in self-improvement By: Tim Stevens The Jason Segel-led comedy about flawed therapists returns in better shape than we left it.
8.4 BEST NEW SHOW Teacup barely contains a tempest of distrust By: Tim Stevens Despite only a passing resemblance to the source material, Peacock’s new series is a ripping paranoid tale for the era.
8.8 BEST NEW SHOW Disclaimer! This excellent drama comes with the price of deep unease By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s latest tells a dark, enthralling tale of the consequences of revenge run wild.
8.7 BEST NEW SHOW Many will want Nobody Wants This By: Tim Stevens Kristen Bell and Adam Brody elevate Netflix’s mismatched lovers romantic comedy series.
9.2 BEST NEW SHOW Slow Horses Season 4 refuses to be broken By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s stellar spy show packs an emotional wallop in its fourth go-round.
8.9 BEST NEW SHOW Bad Monkey? Good, Actually. By: Tim Stevens Against expectations, Bill Lawrence and Vince Vaughn’s sensibilities merge to create an eminently watchable crime comedy offering for AppleTV+.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Mr. Throwback delivers well off the bench By: Tim Stevens Peacock’s six-episode mockumentary isn’t a blue chip prospect but still plenty of fun.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder intrigues without innovating By: Shannon Campe Netflix's new British mystery is a delightful entry in the Girl Detective genre.
8.8 BEST NEW SHOW Batman: Caped Crusader can’t stop looking over its shoulder By: Tim Stevens The latest take on the Dark Knight from Prime Video recreates The Animate Series vibes—perhaps a bit too faithfully.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Tween reality, not sci-fi spectacle, fits Me best By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+'s sci-fi middle school series excels when making a metaphor of early adolescence but stumbles over a larger mythology.
8.2 BEST NEW SHOW Rashida Jones is anything but Sunny and that’s great By: Tim Stevens The star plays unpleasant with aplomb elevating Sunny, AppleTV+'s near-future robot caper, above its increasingly complicated plot mechanics.
9.2 BEST NEW SHOW The Boys Season 4 isn’t bulletproof but it gets damn close By: Tim Stevens Prime Video’s satirical superhero series continues to deliver sick gags and trenchant societal analysis.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW Presumed Innocent guilty of being a strong legal thriller By: Tim Stevens The second adaptation of Scott Turow’s novel strips away some of the story’s complications for a deeper character study of Jake Gyllenhaal’s protagonist.
8.3 BEST NEW SHOW Sweet Tooth Season 3 cuts its saccharine with plenty of grimness and brutality By: Tim Stevens Netflix’s take on the “life after a plague” genre concludes on a decidedly mixed note.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW The Acolyte opens new doors in a Galaxy we know well By: Megan Sunday Disney+'s new Star Wars series dares to suggest the Jedi fallibility, risking fan backlash to open up the universe.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW Dark Matter wanders too far before finds a satisfying path By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s newest science fiction offering struggles with pacing between its bracing opener and powerful final two hours.
8.3 BEST NEW SHOW Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 takes success in stride By: Tim Stevens The season’s trio of opening episodes find the doc series resisting a victory lap in favor of continuing to focus on life beyond the pitch.
8.9 BEST NEW SHOW Knuckles’ zany buddy comedy is worth digging into on Paramount+ By: Justin Harrison Idris Elba and Adam Pally's chemistry anchors the consistently hysterical and well-choreographed miniseries.
8.7 BEST NEW SHOW Step right up to The Big Door Prize Season 2 By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s feel-good supernatural comedy returns with a willingness to be messier and more complicated.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Conan O’Brien Must Go (to Max), and you must follow By: Clint Worthington The comedian travels the world, and leaves a trail of laughs and mayhem in his wake.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW Max’s new series The Sympathizer reflects on Vietnam through media and memory By: Clint Worthington Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr. expertly adapt Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel about war, identity, and cultural consumption.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Prime Video’s Fallout is a Vault-Tec-approved glance at the apocalypse By: Lauren Coates Strap on your Pip-Boys, boys and girls, Amazon's done it again.
10.0 BEST NEW SHOW Netflix’s Ripley soaks its shades of grey in delicious black and white By: Clint Worthington Steven Zaillian crafts a methodical, darkly funny adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, with Andrew Scott at his chilly best.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Sugar brings new flavors to Los Angeles noir By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+ gets strange with a Colin Farrell in their film-obsessed new LA-noir crime drama.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 sees the series die as it lived: in good company By: Andrew Bloom The series’ last batch of episodes comes with all the ups and downs fans have come to expect over the past five seasons.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW X-Men ’97 forces your childhood to grow up on Disney+ By: Clint Worthington Disney revives the fan-favorite Fox cartoon for its now-adult fans, running headfirst into grown-up issues and anime-inspired action.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Manhunt well worth the search on AppleTV+ By: Tim Stevens The dramatic look at the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth is compelling, but truly succeeds by focusing on much more than just the assassination.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW Doff your cap and take a knee before The Regime By: Tim Stevens MAX’s Kate Winslet-starring series doesn't offer the sharpest satirical jabs, but there’s something to be said for being funny & frightening.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Season 3 of The Bad Batch closes on a satisfying note By: Megan Sunday The final season of the Star Wars side adventure goes to some unexpectedly moving places.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Dior and Chanel battle over bolts in wartime Paris in the star-studded The New Look By: B.L. Panther Apple TV+'s latest miniseries blends fashion with fascism in its dramatization of the couture wars of the 1940s and '50s.
8.6 BEST NEW SHOW Navigate by this Constellation for dread you can’t shake By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s latest foray into sci-fi, Constellation starring Noomi Rapace, is short on resolutions but long on atmosphere.
8.3 BEST NEW SHOW Chemistry makes One Day worth your time By: Tim Stevens Netflix’s new romance limited series offers a thoughtful, warm adaptation of the 2009 novel.
9.5 BEST NEW SHOW Abbott Elementary is top of the class By: Shannon Campe The sitcom remains consistently charming and funny in its third season premiere.
8.8 BEST NEW SHOW Mr. and Mrs. Smith offers old code names, new missions, better product By: Chris Ludovici Amazon’s excellent reboot seems more interested in interrogating Bond movies and television domestic dramas than its thin source material.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW A Criminal Record of sins past, echoing still By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s new crime drama compellingly juggles issues of race, internal politics, and family dynamics.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW True Detective deftly navigates the weirdness of Night Country By: Justin Harrison Jodie Foster and Kali Reis shine as a pair of detectives investigating an increasingly surreal crime.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Doctor Who splits hairs in The Giggle and teases a bisected future By: Clint Worthington David Tennant's final(?) special as the Fourteenth Doctor is a giddy, overstuffed callback to the excesses of the Russell T. Davies era -- with a suitably overbaked guest star and a dashing preview of adventures to come.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW Hulu offers something more interesting than the usual Culprits By: Tim Stevens The heist thriller series stays compelling even as it grows more typical.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW Scott Pilgrim Takes Off what’s come before in favor of dawning something new and wonderful By: Justin Harrison The ScienceSaru-produced animated series rebuilds rather than retells Bryan Lee O'Malley's beloved comic.