When Jennifer Euston was casting Orange Is the New Black, it stands to reason that she was selecting interesting performers first and, given the show’s evocative opening credits, interesting faces second. But somewhere on the […]
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Taking eight episodes for what would, in more efficient hands, be a pilot — and setting up a second season that’s somehow even less necessary — Paramount+’s Happy Face vacillates between sanctimonious and hypocritical, lashing […]
For a while, Apple TV+‘s adaptation of Dennis Tafoya’s Dope Thief fits into one of my favorite subgenres of crime fiction: Longtime friends, bonded by shared trauma, engage in petty crime to survive, only to […]
Everything is not sunny in Philadelphia on the small screen this week. Both Apple TV+’s Dope Thief — review coming Thursday — and Peacock‘s Long Bright River set stories of blue-collar murder and misery against […]
The official description for Netflix’s new documentary CHAOS: The Manson Murders invites viewers to “Explore a conspiracy of mind control, CIA experiments and murder.” The trailer for the Errol Morris-directed film, which is based on […]
The ultimate sign of television’s arrival as a cinematic art form may be the medium’s growing obsession with the oner — the uninterrupted single-shot technique that was long part of the visual language of big-screen […]
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 […]
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 […]