FX’s new docuseries based on Errol Morris’ book is engaging at points but fails to fully defend its own point.
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Keeping track of the boob tube, one recap at a time. Networks, cable, streaming, you name it – if you watch it on your TV first, we’ve got it covered.
Moshe Zonder, Dana Eden, and Maor Kohn’s new espionage series boasts solid acting and craft in the face of some wonky storytelling.
Gillian Flynn’s new Prime series is an ambitious saga that offers loads to chew on, assuming you can handle the bleakness of it all.
We finally meet the mysterious other woman in Atticus’s life in a bittersweet episode that brings the series back on track.
Ryan Murphy executive produces an origin story no one asked for, with more hollow camp than anyone needs.
Favreau returns with chef Roy Choi for another course of delicious food and relatable tricks of the culinary trade.
Christopher Plummer & Archie Panjabi investigate a mysterious aircraft incident in Peacock’s solid new drama.
HBO’s latest miniseries mines terror from the all-too-familiar rhythms of provincial authoritarianism.
Ruby gets a taste of how the other side lives in an aimless, disappointing episode.
Luca Guadagnino turns to TV to tell a lilting, meditative story about the uncertainties of adolescence.
Netflix creates a high-school musical about a ghostly boy band that plays all the wrong notes too obviously.
Keith Knight & Marshall Todd’s new Hulu series is a sly mix of comedy and real-life issues that makes for a satisfying social comment.
Atticus & the others return to Massachusetts in a shaky episode that swaps out horror for high adventure.
Netflix helps you scratch your decluttering itch, Kondo-style, with a bougie but buoyant reality series.
A treacly Lost pastiche about astronauts and the lives left behind on an interstellar mission gives way to surprisingly humanistic highs.
Love bites like a parasite in a charming episode that finally locks in Lower Decks’ more refreshing stakes.
Ridley Scott produces a heady, intellectual science fiction series with big, sumptuous ideas and occasionally shaggy presentation.
Phantoms trouble the survivors of Ardham in an outstanding episode that pays homage to classic haunted house movies.