TV: Silo (Season 1)
Hugh Howey’s Wool series comes to life in Silo, a richly produced mystery box with a first-rate cast. In an environmentally devastated future, a construct called the Silo extends deep …
TV: Bad Sisters (Season 1)
The depth and quality of Apple’s content library continues to impress with Bad Sisters, a time-jumping, seriocomic mystery about complicated, highly dysfunctional families. This Ireland-based series involves the tight-knit but sketchy …
TV: Black Mirror (Season 6)
Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror is polarizing at the best of times, and since its move to Netflix, reactions to the series have been mixed, with critics complaining it’s too predictably …
TV – Kolchak: The Night Stalker
It took me a long time to work my way through Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and it may, in fact, be overly generous to say that I truly watched it. But …
TV: Black Butterflies
If you can look past its inherent, excessive depravity—and it ain’t always easy—there’s an awful lot to admire about Black Butterflies. This intricate French thriller combines the bloody trappings of …
TV: Ted Lasso (Season 3)
Ted Lasso arrived like a meteor, and it was the show the world needed right when it needed it most. It departs, almost four years later, an awkward shadow of …
TV: Barry (Season 4)
Certain shows demand a specific ending, and Barry is definitely a case in point. In its early seasons, this brilliant comedy spun comic gold out of a simple, high-concept premise: …
TV: Mrs. Davis
One has to admire the sheer chutzpah of Mrs. Davis, an unlikely contraption that one imagines might have just decided to be a limited series to forestall an inevitable early …
TV: The Rig (Season 1)
Given the current glut of quality content in the world, one shouldn’t go out of their way for The Rig, but voracious viewers seeking a quick diversion could do worse …
TV: The Patient
Watching The Patient, it was impossible not to speculate about how it might end. My early instinct was that its high-intensity escalations couldn’t possibly resolve in a satisfying way. On …
TV: The Big Door Prize (Season 1)
Panning for gold in the streams of streaming, one could be forgiven for overlooking The Big Door Prize, given its oblique, forgettable title. But the show—based on a book by …
TV: American Auto (Season 2)
For all its considerable attributes, something about American Auto doesn’t entirely work. Justin Spitzer’s follow-up to the uneven but generally winning Superstore, American Auto takes us to the offices of …
TV: The Diplomat (Season 1)
It’s good to see Keri Russell parlaying her success on The Americans into impressive new roles, and Netflix’s The Diplomat gives her a juicy one: Kate Wyler, a steely, resourceful …
TV: Beef
Road-rage thriller, dark comedy, empathetic drama, a tale of rival antiheroes—Netflix’s Beef ticks multiple boxes. While it doesn’t always seem to know what it wants to be, it still manages …
TV: Extraordinary (Season 1)
The British live-action comedy-fantasy Extraordinary has an identical premise to the animated Disney film Encanto: what if everyone received a superpower as a coming-of-age rite? Poor Jen (Máiréad Tyers) finds herself …
TV: Moone Boy (Season 1)
Moone Boy (2012–2015) might be viewed as an ancestor of Derry Girls: a quirky, off-the-wall period sitcom set in Ireland. It’s about a young boy named Martin Moone (David Rawle) …