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Starz’s Blindspotting Returns to Stake Claim to Television’s Top Tier | TV/Streaming

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“Blindspotting” season two continues its winning streak of supplying bold social commentary through sharp humor and surreal imagination. It retains the source material’s brilliant blend of expressionism and absurdist humor, which can rattle your soul in either chills or well-earned gut-busting laughs. Its signature multiple performance art form inclusion for each episode rarely comes across … Read more

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Figures It Out in Smart Final Season | TV/Streaming

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That first episode is also full of the characters and guest appearances defining the series. Luke Kirby reprise his role as Lenny Bruce, the show’s creator Amy Sherman-Palladino unable to go a season without him. Hot off her Oscar nomination, Stephanie Hsu plays Mei, proving that if Joel (Michael Zegen) is good at nothing else, … Read more

Barry Can’t Outrun His Past In His Impeccable Final Season | TV/Streaming

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Piggybacking off last year’s tense season finale, season four opens with Barry (Hader) in prison for his crimes—not just any prison, but one that also houses his former handler, Fuches (Stephen Root), who grows desperate for protection from the Feds once he finds out. But Barry’s not interested in killing him anymore; he’s rudderless after … Read more

Netflix’s WWII Drama Transatlantic Offers Bittersweet Salvation | TV/Streaming

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But at the same time, Winger and Handler (following the template laid out in Julie Orringer’s novel The Flight Portfolio, from which this is a loose adaptation) struggle to balance that tone with the innate seriousness of the proceedings, and its seven short episodes occasionally spread themselves too thin. In addition to Fry and Gold’s … Read more

Slasher Returns to Shudder with Intriguing New Season | TV/Streaming

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Gabriel Darku (who, like a lot of this year’s player, was in the third series, “Solstice”) plays Detective Kenneth Rijkers, a new face in Toronto investigating the brutal murder that opens the season. A shrouded figure who becomes known as The Widow is brutally mutilating people in the Toronto streets, and the authorities start to … Read more

Charming Comedy Jury Duty Makes Case for a Different Verdict | TV/Streaming

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Gladden’s genuine reactions are funny, expressing his silly side in the process. The funniest moments occur whenever he interacts with James Marsden and his showboating Primadonna persona. Marsden, being the only notable face, has Gladden a bit starstruck at first. The two go on listing all the movies Marsden starred in, but Ron admits he … Read more

Tiny Beautiful Things is a Tear-Jerking Exploration of the Mother Wound | TV/Streaming

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“Tiny Beautiful Things” lives up to its name, offering small moments of the sublime, made more poignant by the brokenness of its characters. Hahn delivers; sometimes, she’s melancholy or bombastic, but always with a thread of sloppiness pulling through. Crawford also gives a strong, effortless performance, embodying the teenage tendency to swing from vulnerable child … Read more

Apple TV+’s Schmigadoon! Takes on Schmicago! in Snazzy Second Season | TV/Streaming

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“Schmigadoon!”, or “Schmicago!” as it is then branded in the opening credits, is also a return for those who made the series so charismatic. Key and Strong are the true core of the series, and their chemistry feels even more natural this second season. And it’s also about the joy of the returning supporting cast, … Read more

FXX’s Dave Returns with Sharp, Funny Start to Third Season | TV/Streaming

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“Dave” is about a fictional version of Dave Burd’s real alter ego Lil Dicky, a man who blends his neuroses and lewd sense of humor into successful rap songs. He’s the Eminem of the YouTube Generation, a guy who constantly pops up on TikTok feeds with his goofy songs, several of which are about his … Read more

Prime Video’s Globetrotting The Power Finds Action in Gender Analysis | TV/Streaming

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We also meet Roxy Monke (Ria Zmitrowicz), the illegitimate daughter of an organized crime family, who’s itching to join her dad’s business even before she gets the power. And we meet the Clearly-Lopezes, a (mostly) functional US family headed by Toni Collette’s Margot, the ambitious mayor of Seattle. She’s struggling with double standards at work … Read more