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 […]
Daniel Fienberg
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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 […]
I’m not saying Apple TV+ has an issue with repetitive storytelling, but the new drama Before is the service’s third series featuring a renowned comic actor playing a man mourning his dead wife. Not the […]
One of the most reliable pieces of Disney+‘s still-evolving brand has been adulatory celebrity-driven commercials masquerading as “documentaries” while offering cheery and worshipful portraits of figures like Jim Henson, Mickey Mouse and the collective Imagineering […]
The Netflix algorithm will attempt to lure you into watching Territory for its familiarity. The six-part drama is almost explicitly an Aussie version of Yellowstone, or else a modern-day version of Australia, with none of […]
If you’re a circumspect first-time TV creator given vaguely free rein, you have two choices (for the purposes of this exercise). One, you can render your vision in the most easily digestible way possible, to […]
At the polite urging of Peacock, I can’t tell you much about their new thriller-type-thing, Teacup. I can’t tell you what the series is actually about, even though it’s based Robert McCammon’s novel Stinger, so […]
With Apple TV+’s Pachinko and HBO’s My Brilliant Friend reigning as TV’s best current scripted shows, this has already been a big fall for non-English originals. La Máquina, dubbed Hulu’s first Spanish language original series, […]
For many viewers, Netflix’s Nobody Wants This will be enjoyable simply as the very conventional, frequently likable rom-com that it is. Sure, it’s extremely sitcom-y at every turn, but stars Kristen Bell and Adam Brody […]
Hulu’s adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere premiered at the very beginning of the 2020 COVID lockdown, and although it was nominated for several big Emmys that fall, the miniseries has become very fuzzy in my […]
For 35 minutes in the middle of its nine-episode run, Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story does something special. The fifth chapter, titled “The Hurt Man,” was written by series co-creator Ian Brennan […]