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The Latest TV Reviews & Recaps (Page 8)

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.

Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are blended to perfection in the franchise’s most ambitious crossover yet

By: Andrew Bloom

Ensign Boimler meets Captain Pike in a time-traveling adventure with something profound on its mind. This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being covered here wouldn’t exist. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch “Those Old Scientists” may be the ... Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are blended to perfection in the franchise’s most ambitious crossover yet

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds sees the good in confronting, not ignoring, our grief

A high concept sci-fi phenomena helps Ensign Uhura make peace with the deep losses she faced before and after joining Starfleet.

Minx Season 2 explores the complications of success

By: Tim Stevens

Abandoned by Max, the dramedy lands at Starz, boasting more complexity and much of the charm still intact.

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Survival of the Thickest treats weight as a fact of life

By: Megan Sunday

Michelle Buteau writes & stars in a refreshing sitcom where the main character's size isn't the most important thing about her.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds brings big laughs, and something deeper, when Spock becomes human

A hilarious high-concept farce gives way to a subtle commentary on prejudice, self-acceptance, and quiet strength.

An impossible list: the top 10 best episodes of What We Do in the Shadows

With season 5 starting this week, we attempt the fool’s errand of narrowing down the greatest episodes (so far) of the greatest sitcom.

Full Circle closes the loop a bit too perfectly

By: Tim Stevens

Skilled performances overcome all too convenient plotting in the new Ed Solomon-Steven Soderbergh collaboration.

The Witcher Season 3 finds its way back to the trail

After an unfocused second season, the Netflix fantasy series gets Geralt back in fighting shape.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds feels like the 60s series, for better & worse

By: Andrew Bloom

A visit to a familiar planet, a peculiar case of memory loss, and a B-Teamer rising to the occasion make for a mixed bag in this franchise throwback.

The Horror of Dolores Roach lacks bite

By: Tim Stevens

The play turned podcast turned Prime Video series is appealing but lacks the killer instinct to become a must-eat…err…see.

A delayed Afterparty Season 2 still deserves an RSVP

By: Tim Stevens

An awkward opener and a few months late arrival do little to dampen AppleTV+’s extremely fun murder-mystery series.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds asks whether we can ever be freed from our families’ legacies

La’an’s trip to the past and her team-up with none other than Captain Kirk gets at big questions both historical and personal.

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Season 4 sends the spy out as he came – reliable if unremarkable

By: Tim Stevens

Prime Video’s goodbye to John Krasinski’s Ryan is another season of solid spycraft storytelling.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds urges us, and the Federation, to live up to our ideals

One of the franchise’s trademark courtroom drama episodes is a crucible for Number One and for Starfleet’s principles in action.

Secret Invasion whispers well but moves too slow

Like Nick Fury himself, the MCU's newest series limps out of the gate in "Resurrection."

Idris Elba & a gimmick can only elevate Hijack so high

By: Tim Stevens

The AppleTV+ thriller series plays like a rainy day TBS movie stretched over seven episodes.

In its season premiere, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds affirms that Spock is no ordinary Vulcan

By: Andrew Bloom

Season 2’s debut sidelines the senior officers for a Spock-centered adventure that pays tribute to his Vulcan bearing but also his undeniable humanity.

Cruel Summer Season 2 sees the series take things a little slower this year

By: Tim Stevens

Perhaps the heat is getting to the Freeform series as its second outing remains silly overblown fun, but at a lesser pace.

The Crowded Room echoes with unfulfilled promise

By: Tim Stevens

Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried do the work but are hamstrung by cliché and overvaluing surprise over character development.

Based on a True Story is darkly funny look at true crime obsession

By: Megan Sunday

Peacock presents a bloody, clever satire about America's favorite documentary genre.

None of us get a perfect end, not even Ted Lasso

The series closes on a heartfelt episode that nonetheless reveals flaws and disappointments.

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