Play button The 24 best TV shows of 2018 so farVox - Todd VanDerWerffIt has not been a great year for television so far. There have been plenty of treats, to be sure, and even some real treasures. But compared to the way 2017 seemed to haul out new classics with astonishing
Play button Alan Sepinwall's Picks for Best TV of 2018 So FarRolling Stone - Alan Sepinwall FX One of the great TV dramas of this era offered one of the great finales: a stunningly non-explosive conclusion to its spy family saga, where all …
Yellowstone is soapy trash that badly wants to be taken seriously: EW reviewEntertainment Weekly - Darren FranichI am watching the second episode of Yellowstone, and unless I have missed something, a main character has inadvertently discovered dinosaur bones. When I reviewed the pilot of Yellowstone for our print
‘Love Is…’ Review: OWN’s New Romantic Comedy – VarietyVariety - Caroline Framke Romantic comedies are surprisingly rare on television. Recently, if a show could at all be described as romantic and/or a comedy, there’s usually …
GLOW Review: Pulling No Punches, Season 2 Packs an Emotional WallopTVLine - Charlie Mason Sitting down to review Season 2 of Netflix’s GLOW, I tried to settle on the word that best described it, and “hard” was the one I kept coming back to …
How Netflix Is Trying to Make Sure Its Shows Don’t Get Lostvulture.com - Josef Adalian All this week, we’re publishing a series of pieces to accompany our New York cover story going behind the scenes of Netflix. One of the most frequent …
Inside Netflix’s TV-Swallowing, Market-Dominating Binge Factoryvulture.com - Josef Adalian Above, Ryan Murphy, Spike Lee, Laverne Cox, Alison Brie, Jane Fonda, Robin Wright, and Jason Bateman. “What do you think about gas in the tank for the …
TV Review: ‘Sharp Objects’ Starring Amy Adams – VarietyVariety - Daniel D'Addario In the wake of HBO’s critical and popular success with “Big Little Lies,” the comparisons to the new limited series “Sharp Objects” — premiering June …
Best TV Shows of First Half of 2018 – VarietyVariety - Caroline Framke, Daniel D'Addario The year so far has been crammed with so much great television that even with many standbys absent from the scene — fan favorites including “Better …
Strange Angel Review: Jack Parsons Gets TV Treatment on CBS All Access – VarietyVariety - Caroline Framke The story of Jack Parsons — the very real rocket scientist upon which “Strange Angel” is based — is a bizarre combination of ego and ambition that …
‘American Woman’ Review: Kyle Richards’ Paramount Network Series – VarietyVariety - Daniel D'Addario Though the rewards are great when it’s done well, period TV is difficult to pull off. For every “The Crown” or “The Americans,” shows that milk …
'Succession': TV Reviewhollywoodreporter.com - Daniel Fienberg It may test the patience of those sick of TV's sagas of the rich and famous, but creator Jesse Armstrong and a cast led by Brian Cox and Kieran …
'Dietland': TV Reviewhollywoodreporter.com - Inkoo Kang Marti Noxon's latest drama (adapted from Sarai Walker's best-selling novel) comes to AMC, tackling fat acceptance and feminist vengeance. AMC's …
TV Review: ‘Arrested Development’ Season 5 on NetflixVariety - Caroline Framke There’s something perfect about the fact that season 5 of “Arrested Development” picks up almost immediately where season 4 left off as if no time …
'Cloak & Dagger': TV Reviewhollywoodreporter.com - Daniel Fienberg Marvel TV's new Freeform drama is in no hurry to get to its eponymous superheroes, but stars Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph are solid, and creator Joe …
'Pose': TV Reviewhollywoodreporter.com - Daniel Fienberg On the surface a flamboyant and progressive depiction of New York's underground '80s ball scene, Ryan Murphy's new FX series plays more as a …
'13 Reasons Why' Season 2: TV Reviewhollywoodreporter.com - Daniel Fienberg The second season of Netflix's teen suicide drama is a frustratingly unnecessary mess of bad courtroom antics, stale mysteries and clumsy efforts to …
Farewell To ‘New Girl,’ A Show With Many Identities, All Of Them FunUPROXX - Alan Sepinwall“I just want to have a weird, wonderful life together,” Nick Miller tells Jess Day in the first of tonight’s farewell episodes of New Girl. This is a lovely and fitting sentiment on the day that Jess Deschanel)
AMC's 'Dietland' has a bit too much on its plate: EW reviewEntertainment Weekly - Kristen BaldwinDietland is about an overweight writer struggling to find self-acceptance and purpose while surrounded by conventionally beautiful women at the teen magazine where she works. No, wait — that’s not quite
Black Friday Cancellation Purge Sees Biz Reality Shiv ‘Lucifer,’ ‘Quantico’ & MoreDeadline - Dominic Patten There is blood flowing in the streets of Hollywood tonight, as the television networks’ annual Black Friday purge has cancelled a deluge of series, …
Benedict Cumberbatch is a mess in Patrick Melrose: EW reviewEntertainment Weekly - Kristen BaldwinLiterary adaptations can be a sticky wicket, especially when the books in question are about terribly unlikable people and the little boy they abuse, neglect, and otherwise traumatize until he grows up
'Dear White People' Season 2: TV Reviewhollywoodreporter.com - Daniel Fienberg In its second season, Netflix's college comedy remains a blueprint for how to bring a movie to the small screen. The TV graveyard of the past decade …
Less Can Be More: In Defense Of The Half-Hour TV DramaUPROXX - Alan SepinwallStarz’s new drama Vida isn’t perfect, but it has several things working in its favor. The story of two Mexican-American sisters (Mishel Prada as sophisticated professional Emma, Melissa Barrera as younger
'The Rain': TV Reviewhollywoodreporter.com - Daniel Fienberg Netflix's Danish post-apocalyptic YA drama may have subtitles, but it's a lot like a post-apocalyptic YA drama you'd find on The CW or Freeform. Don't …
A Crane Kick Of Nostalgia Right To The Throat: 'Cobra Kai'NPR - Linda HolmesLo these many years, by which I mean since 1984, many have wondered about the answer to a simple question of history. It has echoed off the walls of canyons, burbled in the bubbles of mountain streams,
'Patrick Melrose': TV Reviewhollywoodreporter.com - Tim Goodman Incredible performances, particularly from Benedict Cumberbatch, fuel Showtime's dark comic miniseries adaptation of the British novels. There are a …
TV Review: ‘Vida’ on StarzVariety - John Griffiths The rare drama series to focus on Latino characters — who are female and/or queer, no less — “Vida” only somewhat lives up to the color, richness and …
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Gets Even Darker — And Better — In Season TwoUPROXX - Alan SepinwallThere’s no show in TV history I’ve admired more, while looking forward to watching less, than The Handmaid’s Tale. It is a beautifully shot, stunningly acted, thoughtfully written depiction of a world
