VisionQuest ends Marvel's trilogy with conventional spectacle
The final WandaVision installment prioritizes action over character, repeating MCU backstory at the expense of the stylistic innovation that made its predecessors work.
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Crystal Lake is everything wrong with horror adaptations
Peacock's Friday the 13th reboot stretches a thin premise into eight tedious episodes, wasting Linda Cardellini's talent and the franchise's legacy.
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Cupertino is the legal drama Silicon Valley deserves
CBS's new lawyer show about underdogs suing tech giants is smart, funny and surprisingly fun.
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Netflix's Cathy finds freedom in Steinbeck's text
Zoe Kazan's adaptation gives Steinbeck's most reviled character the humanity critics denied her for seventy years.
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Tip Toe: A Harrowing Melodrama of Queerness and Masculinity
Russell T Davies' new Starz miniseries opens with a death and works backward through ten days of escalating tension between two Manchester neighbors.
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Flanagan's Carrie finally escapes De Palma's shadow
Mike Flanagan's eight-episode Prime Video series is the first Carrie adaptation in 50 years that fully reimagines the story for its time.
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HBO's War drama fails to justify its own story
A prestige legal drama about a billionaire divorce has style but no point to make about wealth, power or the lawyers caught between them.
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Netflix's 'A Different World' revival finds heart in a darker age
The new Hillman College tackles Gen Z problems with less comedy but more depth than the beloved 1987 original.
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McConaughey and Harrelson's 'Brothers' coasts on charm
Apple TV's new comedy about two Texas stars plays their public personas against a rumor that might make them literal siblings.
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Netflix's Lizzie Borden show wastes female rage
Monster retells a familiar story with nothing new to say about women's anger and repression.
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Love defies war in PBS's devastating Belfast drama
A new miniseries explores how two people from opposite sides of the Troubles find romance amid violence and hatred.
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Sharon Horgan's 'Youth' nails the chaos of middle age
The Catastrophe creator's new HBO comedy explores dating, work, and family at 50 with her signature mix of humor and heart.
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Mariska Hargitay's just-OK Emmys night
The Emmys finally gave a woman the mic again, then handed her eight minutes and a stack of stale jokes.
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Why Gen Z romance swapped sex scenes for sweat
Crew Girl is the no. 1 show on Netflix and a map of how teen romance rebuilt itself around bodies in motion instead of bedrooms.
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