During a lull in the second half of Netflix‘s six-part political thriller Zero Day — and there are more lulls than there should be — I began to contemplate how much more efficiently the show’s […]
Daniel Fienberg
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Several great stories about the underbelly of Victorian London get smushed together to yield something less great but often extremely entertaining in Steven Knight‘s new Hulu drama, A Thousand Blows. Knight comes off less like […]
Millennials, the generational punching bag of TV’s past decade, are the big winners in Tubi’s new original comedy The Z-Suite. Over the four episodes sent to critics, the M-word is scarcely mentioned and its members […]
I’m far too young to make first-hand references to “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?),” but I like the sentiment of the World War I era banger, because […]
[Warning: Because this review cannot and will not spoil key twists from Hulu‘s new drama, Paradise, I will instead spoil key twists from Apple TV+’s Sugar. Skip the first paragraph if you don’t want Sugar […]
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes famously described the life of man in an uncivilized state as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” In Netflix‘s American Primeval, a new six-episode miniseries about life on the Western edge […]
Appropriately somber and sincere-of-purpose, Peacock’s new limited series Lockerbie: A Search for Truth is, to the surprise of nobody who has been watching a lot of TV or reading my reviews recently, an important and […]
It’s been 1,196 days since Netflix premiered, with little promotion and no reviews, an odd South Korean drama about economic desperation, bloodsport and childhood games that quickly became one of its most-watched series. That’s a […]