Netflix’s “Selena: The Series” now enters tricky waters when it comes to chronicling both success and tragedy. It is also obsessed with trying ever so hard to explicitly build more myth around…
“Pose” always worked as the best kind of fantasy, one where not everything was perfect, but was always wrapped in the haze of some exhilarating dream. Maverick producer Ryan Murphy’s crowning…
In many ways it makes perfect sense to revive “The Mosquito Coast.” It is a story about a man who feels detached from an increasingly material, consumerist society, zealously determined to build…
It’s been almost two years since season three of “The Handmaid’s Tale” ended, and while the world has changed greatly during this time, June (Elisabeth Moss) is still not out of…
With fantasy now becoming a dominant TV genre, delivering a new series every month, it becomes a challenge to produce something that is truly immersive. Netflix’s adaptation of “Shadow and Bone” is…
“Godfather of Harlem” season two is being tied with the “French Connection.” It is the title of this season’s first episode, a new business venture for Forest Whitaker’s Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson,…
The starting point of HBO’s six-part limited series “Mare of Easttown” is a murder mystery. It then develops as an excellent thriller but along with the questions comes a stronger kind of…
Laura Donnelly and Ann Skelly have acted in numerous period pieces before, donning costumes and traveling to some other era. But they have never been in anything quite like HBO’s “…
Few directors can truly be called internationalist to the level of Raoul Peck. His journey as an artist and thinker is a collection of work that tells unknown or underground histories, from…
It’s a beautiful day in the racist neighborhood at the beginning of Amazon’s new anthology series “Them.” White picket fences and pristine lawns hide horrific secrets and monsters that are not always…
With its splashes of melodrama and lots of ammo to spare, “Queen of the South” nears the end with both style and inevitability. At a time when we’re being constantly flooded with…
The CW’s “Kung Fu” is a new show using an old title, rather than a reboot of an old classic. The original “Kung Fu” series, which aired from 1972 through 1975, is…