Like an overcrowded nest of vipers, everyone yearns for the top chair without realizing they are the prey in the feature-length series finale of “Succession.” The HBO hit has become a pop…
The world of government and intrigue is full of keen minds, even brilliant ones, and then absolute human farce. HBO’s five-part “White House Plumbers” turns the Watergate scandal into a tragicomedy of…
It used to be the case that nuns and priests were tasked with facing down Satan. Now that technology is consuming our lives more and more, it makes sense that the devil might…
After trying in vain to recycle some of its original plotting last season, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” rediscovers its stride while continuing to celebrate the long, hard road of success, and personal…
Los Angeles is like a microcosm of so many of this country’s contradictions. The immensely wealthy live in close proximity to the struggling working class. Take public transportation and you face Dantenean images…
Family dysfunction has a way of capturing a society’s vicious nature. No family on TV captures the dark spirit of American corporate culture like the diabolically dysfunctional Roys. The clan at the heart…
Going gritty can mean many things. Sometimes it can elevate certain material to a riveting, powerful degree. Other times it can feel like the filmmaker misunderstands what gritty actually means and is just…
HBO’s “Perry Mason” is a particular kind of drama that sustains itself mostly on its rich atmosphere. That’s a common observation with much television these days, as production quality remains high for…