Latest TV Reviews
‘Faraway Downs’ Review: Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ Expansion Comes Up Short
The director's 2008 epic starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman becomes a six-part Hulu miniseries that incorporates previously cut footage and an alternate ending.
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‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Review: Netflix Cashes in, and It’s Not Pretty
The anti-capitalist South Korean hit drama gets a reality-competition spinoff in which 496 contestants participate in children's games for the chance to win $4.96 million.
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‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ Review: Netflix’s Animated Adaptation Charms Despite Flaws
Bryan Lee O'Malley and BenDavid Grabinski offer a new, and different, retelling of O'Malley's beloved graphic novel in the eight-episode series.
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‘The Crown’ Review: Final Season Kicks Off With a Wobbly Take on the Diana/Dodi Romance
Peter Morgan's Emmy-winning Netflix drama starts its sixth and last season with a four-episode arc, to be followed by the remaining six installments in December.
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‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Review: Kurt and Wyatt Russell Anchor Apple TV+’s Refreshingly Human-Scale Godzilla Series
The father and son share a role in the decades-spanning drama about a top-secret monster-hunting organization.
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‘Fargo’ Review: Jon Hamm, Juno Temple and Jennifer Jason Leigh Sink Their Teeth Into a Juicy Season 5
Noah Hawley's FX anthology series goes back to 2019 for another tale of kidnapping, murder and funny regional accents.
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‘Beacon 23’ Review: Lena Headey and Stephan James in an MGM+ Sci-Fi Saga That Casts a Spell
The pair play strangers stranded together on a lonely outpost on the outskirts of the Milky Way in a series adapted from the book by Hugh Howey ('Silo').
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‘Colin From Accounts’ Review: Paramount+’s Aussie Import Hits the Rom-Com Sweet Spot
Series creators Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer star as two single people who meet in a lighthearted animal-endangerment situation.
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‘The Buccaneers’ Review: Apple TV+’s Edith Wharton Adaptation Eventually Finds Its Spark
Inspired by the writer's final, unfinished novel, the series follows a tight-knit clique of wealthy young American women who head to London in search of titled husbands.
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‘A Murder at the End of the World’ Review: Emma Corrin and Clive Owen Star in FX/Hulu’s Alluring Whodunit
A Gen Z hacker seeks the truth behind the death of a guest at an ultra-exclusive retreat hosted by a tech billionaire in the series created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij ('The OA').
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‘The Curse’ Review: Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder Play Married HGTV Stars in Showtime’s Exhilarating, Exhausting Cringe Comedy
Benny Safdie is co-creator of the dark satire, which follows the stars and creator of a home-renovation series.
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‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ Review: A Commanding David Oyelowo Can’t Mask the Blandness of Paramount+’s History Lesson
The legendary U.S. Marshal gets heroic biopic treatment in this limited series from the Taylor Sheridan stable, with guest stars including Shea Whigham, Dennis Quaid, Donald Sutherland, Garrett Hedlund and Barry Pepper.
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Critic’s Appreciation: Matthew Perry Masterfully Walked the Line Between Mirth and Melancholy
Perry, who died this weekend at 54, was an expert at making viewers care for characters who used humor to mask insecurity, sadness and pain.
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‘Black Cake’ Review: Dramatic Friction Sorely Lacking in Hulu’s Tale of a Family’s Secrets and Strife
In an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Charmaine Wilkerson, two estranged siblings discover the truth about their mother's life story after her death.
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‘Everyone Else Burns’ Review: The CW’s British Comedy Laces Doomsday Cringe With Sweetness as Well as Snark
Simon Bird and Kate O'Flynn lead the cast of a transplanted Channel 4 series about a Manchester family devoted to a fundamentalist Christian sect.
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‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Review: Maya Erskine in Netflix’s Gorgeously Violent Adult Animated Revenge Drama
A mysterious swordmaster cuts a path of revenge through 17th-century Japan in an adult animated series created by Amber Noizumi and Michael Green.
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