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 […]
Daniel Fienberg
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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 […]
Halfway through Netflix’s No Good Deed, Lydia Morgan (Lisa Kudrow), a former concert pianist now embroiled in the madness of trying to sell her house, reflects on a repetitively heightened situation, sighs and says, “I’m […]
If the original Inside Out was preparing children for the world of adult emotional complexity, Disney+’s Dream Productions is designed to prepare children for the world of grown-up entertainment clichés. Basically HBO’s The Franchise for […]
Three years ago, Max released a limited series adaptation of a well-regarded novel that blended magic realism and an all-too-real snapshot of a global pandemic. Dreamy and uncomfortably familiar, bleak and yet bursting with hope, […]
“I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher. I have a peeler. I have skewers. I have a kettle. I have a NutriBullet.” These words are uttered by Helen (Keira Knightley), prim and proper wife […]
If Disney+’s new drama Star Wars: Skeleton Crew had debuted when I was eight or nine, it would have abruptly shoved Knight Rider and The Dukes of Hazzard aside to become Young Daniel’s favorite TV […]
Playing like an Alfred Hitchcock wrong-man-wrong-place thriller if you replaced a Jimmy Stewart-style Everyman with Shaft, Netflix‘s The Madness is an eight-episode thriller built around the theory that, given the right opportunity, Colman Domingo is […]
Let’s set a tableau illustrating a Grand Unified Theory of London-Based Spy Shows That Premiered This Fall/Winter. In our image, the London station CIA team, led by the cast of The Agency, is working in […]
One week after breaking audience records by televising either Logan or Jake Paul (TRULY, I couldn’t care less) pummeling Mike Tyson in the ring, Netflix is delivering a much more compassionate portrait of the challenges […]
The mountain lion that menaced Kim Bauer in the first season of Fox’s 24 was a feature, not a bug. That ferocious feline, which probably still haunts Elisha Cuthbert’s dreams, was a proof of concept […]
Hulu’s FX-produced limited series Say Nothing, like its source book by Patrick Radden Keefe, takes its name from the striking 1975 poem “Whatever You Say, Say Nothing,” by Seamus Heaney. It’s a sad and angry […]