No show has premiered in 2020 fully justifying its name like “This Is Us.” NBC’s crowning network achievement becomes something more mature and strikingly…
The rich are at it again in HBO’s new six-part limited series “The Undoing.” You know what that means. They cheat, gossip and eventually…
Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” approaches chess the way other shows or movies have profiled musical prodigies. Much of the impact of this limited series…
A year after “Hello, Privilege, It’s Me, Chelsea,” her surprisingly moving Netflix documentary about white privilege, comedian Chelsea Handler continues to experience great personal…
The Conner family continues to survive as it moves into a socially distanced season 3. None of the family have caught Covid, because they’ve apparently set up a fortress against the…
Men who walked out the door and never came back, felons still on the run, and the possibility of restless ghosts from the 2011 Japan earthquake. Exactly what we would expect…
Now reaching its final episode of a wildly inventive first season, “Lovecraft Country” becomes pure magic and mayhem. HBO’s adaptation of Matt Ruff’s novel…
A profound live show can become a transcendental experience, combining performance and sound into something akin to secular spiritualism. Spike Lee’s dazzling chronicle of…
Gen Z is already known for beginning to define much of the slogans and movements of its time. Defying gender norms and labels, picking up the banners of woke culture, they…
Slow-burner shows have increasingly been taking on the form of endurance tests. They want to see how devoted you can be through the dragged pacing and moody camera work, awaiting the…
The most important documentary of the year is about this very year we’re still living through. With the precision of a complex thriller, “Totally Under Control…
Precocious children are perfectly splendid in the world of subliminal horror. There is all that prepubescent curiosity which has yet to rage as hormones. Netflix’s “The…
Disney’s update of “The Right Stuff” is both pure Americana and a vintage study of our celebrity culture. It has a classic form of…
While the global pandemic has put a damper on many fall celebrations, the spirit of All Hallows’ Eve is alive and well in “Hubie Halloween…
