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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) …